‘Opening Doors: The School Library in a Culturally Diverse Society’

The SLARI Spring Seminar and AGM will be held on Friday 24th April 2015 in Pearse St Library from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm. Our speaker is Chris Powis and he will talk about teaching skills for school library staff. The conference brochure can be found here: SLARI Spring Conference 2015 brochure and the booking form here: SLARI Spring Conference 2015 booking form.

A big thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to our conference.

Christina Clarke’s presentation can be accessed here.The booklet referred to by Christina, ‘METHODOLOGIES TO SUPPORT LITERACY & EFFECTIVE PRACTICE’, can be found here: School Support Literacy Booklet. Planning and evaluation templates can be found here; and checklists here. 

Charles Quain of Interleaf presented about a new e-books platform for schools, Leabharlann. More information here. To see what the Digital Library looks like, click here

A copy of Mary Gilbride’s presentation can be accessed here: Good literacy practices observed during inspection

A toolkit of document templates to help in a Whole School Evaluation, devised by Katherine Ryan of St Andrew’s College, can be found here: WSE folder Katherine Ryan

‘Be Prepared! Planning for School Inspections and Literacy Promotion’

Friday, 21st November 2014, 9.30am-1pm

Pearse Street Library, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

Programme

9:30 am        Registration

10:00 am      Christina Clarke will speak about literacy and School Self-Evaluation

11:00 am      Coffee break

11:30 am      Charles Quain, Interleaf, will speak about Leabharlann, a new e-books platform for schools. There will also be a draw where one school represented at the conference will win a year’s free access to Leabharlann for the 2015 calendar year. All other schools represented at the conference will be entitled to a 10% discount on their 2015 subscription to Leabharlann.

11.50 am      Mary Gilbride will speak about inspections

12.10 pm      Information Sharing session

There will be an opportunity to ask questions of speakers after all presentations. There will also be an opportunity to browse and purchase books at the International Education Services and Axis Education stands. All conference attendees will be entered into a draw to win Axis Education’s top selling ‘Fight Club’ set, worth €159.99.

For details on how to reach the venue, or any other enquiries, please contact secretary@slari.ie.

Sponsored by:

Axis Education

Interleaf

International Education Services

To download a brochure click here: November Conference 2014 brochure

To download a booking form click here: November Conference 2014 booking form

The SLARI Spring conference 2014 was titled ‘Librarians Teaching Information Literacy’ and it took place, along with the association’s AGM, on Friday April 4th from 9.30 in Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2.

SLARI Spring Conference 2014 Brochure
SLARI Spring Conference 2014 Booking Form

The link to the article below shows the importance of keeping our skills up-to-date:

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/to-be-honest-a-school-librarian-asks-who-will-teach-children-to-judge-and-organise-information-1.1712020

The SLARI Conference which was held in Pearse Street Library on Friday 22^nd November had as its theme the new Junior Cycle.  

Annette Honan of the NCCA gave an outline of the key skills that will be required of students in the new Junior Certificate.  Click here: http://www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Post-Primary_Education/Junior_Cycle/

Mick O’Riordan, Regional Advisor to the JCSP, told us of some great ideas that are currently being done by librarians in schools all over the country.

SLARI Conference

“Libraries and the New Junior Cycle”

22^nd November  2013

Pearse Street Library

9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

Contact secretary@slari.ie

Click for brochure and booking form:

SLARI November Conference 2013 brochure

SLARI November    Conference 2013 booking form