Ideas for a primary and secondary school library program

1. Connect and collaborate to create
a great school library
Jane Viner
Kilvington Grammar School, Australia
vinerj@kilvington.vic.edu.au

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Connect
and
collaborate
to create
a great
school library
Jane Viner
Head of Library Resource Services
Kilvington Grammar School
Ormond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Jane Viner – a professional journey
Head of Library Resource Services 2014 – ongoing
Teacher Librarian 2014 - ongoing
– Kilvington Grammar School, Ormond (K – 12)
Director of MLC Libraries 2000 - 2013
– Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew
(K – 12 VCE & IB DP)
Faculty Head of Information Resources 1995 –
1999; Teacher Librarian 1994 - 1999
– St. Leonard’s College, Brighton
(K- 12VCE & IB DP)
Curriculum Resources Coordinator &
Advanced Skills Teacher 1993
– Sandringham Secondary College (7 – 12 VCE)
Head of Library 1985 – 1992
Equal Opportunity Coordinator 1992
- Mordialloc-Chelsea High School (7- 12 VCE)

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Australian School Library Association (ASLA)
Teacher Librarian of the Year 2017

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Jane Viner says…
“ I love school libraries because as a teacher librarian we can make
a difference in the life of a child, a student, young adult, teacher,
staff member and parent.”
“Reading is an essential literacy skill and loving to read for
pleasure opens up the wonder of books and inspires children
and adults to become immersed in another world”
Carmona, Bianca (2017) Sharing a love of reading brings joy to heart.
Glen Eira/Port Phillip Leader. Tuesday August 29th, p. 16.

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Presentation Outline
PART A
• Introduction
• Kilvington Grammar School
• Inspirational words
• Take away
PART B
• Programs
• Junior Students
• Kilvington Reads
• Book Clubs
• Reading
• Collections
• Kilvington Grammar feedback
• Staff ; Resources; Environment
• Collaboration ; Relationships
• Research programs
PART C
• Student author
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• The welcome mat & conclusion
• Contact details
• Feedback
• Questions

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Who are we?
www.Kilvington.vic.edu.au
• Small co-educational day
school
• South of Melbourne, near
Ormond Railway Station
• ELC – Year 12 - 800 students
• Committed staff
• “Not for our own but others’
good”
• Small enough to care, big
enough to excel
• Four Pillars of Excellence
o Academic
o Care
o Character
- Gratitude & Curiosity
o Community

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McKie Library – a journey since 2014
• 2014 – arrived at Kilvington Grammar
• Transformation of the library environment, programs and services
• Collaborative practice
• Building relationships
• Creating trust
• Increasing involvement
• Value adding
• Understanding of the teacher librarian role
• Endorsement by the school community
• Principal and Executive support

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McKie Library “Library Lounge Room”

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Great School Libraries Honours 2016

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Inspirational words of wisdom
“…in these times of rapidly changing technologies, increasing
amounts of information, and often futile attempts to keep up with
the latest trends in school librarianship, it is sometimes handy
to be reminded that the core business of a school library is
literacy.”
Stephanie Ellis, Napier High School, N.Z. (2016, Connections)
“Librarians, in their roles as facilitators of open access to information
and as innovative leaders in their communities, are radical agitators
for change.”
Emily Johns, RMIT, Melbourne (2017, Incite)
“Sometimes we don’t know the lengths we will go to until an
opportunity presents itself”
Sue Osborne, Haileybury College, Brighton, Melbourne (2017, FYI)

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Six important words in a school library

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What are the take aways
for you
that will build your
strong library tree?

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Take away entree
Ask for the world and
get a country in $ terms
Take a risk
Use statistics to back
up your value
Try a student survey for
honesty
Collaborate and build
cooperation with a
range of partners
Use Twitter and
social media to
browse resources
and get ideas
Build on
established
relationships
Establish new
relationships
Connect with the
parent community
Take on volunteers
– students and
parents

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Buy what
students want
Put student
suggestions on
high urgency
along with Dept.
requests
Out facing books
on show
Discard non
borrowed items
even if they are
your favourites
Replace discards
with new titles
requested by
students
Invite book
supplier to your
library as a guest
of Book Week
Do the hack work
for parents with the
Premiers’ Reading
Challenge
Liaise with
Languages Dept.
Build strong
partnerships with
English Dept. and
teachers
Look after your
primary teachers
Offer digital
newspaper sub to
all staff
Look after your
team and build on
their ideas, abilities
to make your library
fantastic
Take away main course

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Take away dessert
Encourage
Enthuse Enjoy
Excellence Empathy
A fabulous combo - dessert with topping made from
collaboration with your school community
– Enjoy the cake!

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Book Clubs

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Junior Students
Do they have a voice in your
school library?
Heath McKenzie, Artist and Author with Paul Stefanetti, Classroom teacher and JS Students

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Kilvington Reads – an annual celebration of reading

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Kilvington Reads 2017 Bookmark winners

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Promotional poster

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Year 7 Orientation Passport

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Reading at Kilvington Grammar
• Senior school students from Year 7 – 10 English classes come along with their
English Subject teacher on a fortnightly basis for a wider reading class where they
relax in the Library Reading lounge and focus on individual silent reading
• Junior School students from Year 5 to 6 come along weekly and read and relax in
the Library Reading Lounge with their Class teacher
• Junior School students from Prep to Year 4 come along to the Junior Library on a
weekly basis with their Class teacher and choose books to read and listen to a
story
• ELC – Early Learning Centre students are in two groups – three year olds and
four year olds. They visit weekly with their Class teacher and assistant where they
listen to a story and borrow picture books from our extensive collection in the
Junior Library

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Shopping list for student and staff selection

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Collections – Digital and Print
• Picture books
• Junior fiction – Prep - Year 4
• Graphic novels - Junior
• Junior fiction Year 5 & 6
• Middle fiction – Year 7 & 8
• Middle fiction – Year 9 & 10
• Senior Fiction – Year 10 up
• Graphic novels – Senior
• Non Fiction – Prep to Adult
• Magazines
• Encyclopedia
Britannica School
• EBSCO ANZ
reference Centre
• EBSCO Points of View
• EBSCO High School
eBooks
• Wheelers ePlatform

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Feedback from students and staff
• What makes a great school library?
3 reasons 1. ……………. 2…………………3. ……………………….
• Grouped into three headings from the responses
• Staff
• Resources
• Environment

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Staff
• Knowledgeable
• Team
• Actively interested in
helping students and staff
• Supportive
• Enthusiastic
• Friendly
• Happy
• Helpful
• Smiling
• Approachable
• Good sense of humour
• Passionate about their
roles
• Skilled
• Reliable
• Trustworthy
• Staff who welcome
questions

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Resources
• Up-to-date
• Regularly weeded
• Alerts to staff with related
resources to subject area
• Current and modern
• Easy access
• Supplement curriculum
• Support curriculum
• Great picture books
• Good resources in both
print and digital formats
• Educational
• Range of media formats
• Reliable digital resources

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Environment
• Class ready
• Accommodating classes not
doing research /reading
• Welcoming
• Colourful
• Inspirational art work
• Bubbling atmosphere
• Ability to make a noise
• Comfortable
• Inviting
• Changing displays
• Ability to explore
• Engaging literary displays
• Cocurricular - Craft club
• Cocurricular – Chess
• Useable spaces
• Students and teachers like
• Conducive to learning
• Different types of learning
• Reading
• Play
• Individual
• Group

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Environment - there’s more!
• Class
• Year levels – ELC – 12
• Staff
• Collaborative
• Fun
• School community
• Enjoy learning
• Study
• Relax
• Ideas to flow
• Quiet space for individuals
• Group open space
• Connect with community
• Natural light
• Colourful furniture
• Posters
• Feel good space
• Board games, Chess, Puzzles

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80% of your impact comes
from 20% of what you do
The 80/20 principle is important.
Task High Urgency Low Urgency
High
Importance
Do it Delegate it
Low Importance Diarise it Delight in it
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Collaboration
is the key
to success.
“Jane has transformed the library into a
vibrant, safe and cosy hub where students like
spending time much more this year.”
Lucie Dickens, Academic Dean of Languages - 2014
Library
teamwork
is vital

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Principal Local bookstores
Teachers
Professional
networks
Library
staff
Digital suppliers
School
staff
Furniture suppliers
Parents Online bookstores
Students
Stationery
suppliers
“Talking with Jane about options has
helped me become aware of a
broader range of digital resources
waiting in the wings to be
discovered… We all need someone in
the vicinity who can lead us by the hand
and keep us up-to-date with the ever-
widening circle of possibilities”
Lynley Clarnette, Academic Dean of
Humanities
Relationships

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Research classes – suggestions to be part of the
conversation and action about literacy
Small
• Class
• Subject
Medium
• Year Level
Large
• Staff meeting
• Department meetings

39. Kilvington Grammar School
McKie Library Research Program
Year 6
Research investigation

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Research classes – Junior School – Year 6
Year 6 Geography Research investigation – Lesson – 3R’s of research
- Part A – Research; Part B – Resources; Part C – Record
- Part A – Research
- McKie Library Homepage 24/7; Research process and 6W’s;
- -Investigation questions and scaffold
- Part B - Resources
- -McKie Library Catalogue; Encyclopedia Britannica School - Middle; Websites
- Part C - Record
- Definitions – plagiarism, bibliography, citation, copyright
- Why we record resources!
- Online Bibliography template – Primary School
- How to record resources!

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McKie Library Research Program
VCE Biology
Research investigation

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Research classes – Senior School – Year 11 & 12
VCE Year 11 & 12 Biology Research Investigation
- Part A – Research; Part B – Resources; Part C – Record
- Part A – Research
- McKie Library Homepage 24/7; The research question – 6W’s; The research
scaffold; The research process - cyclical;
- -Investigation questions and scaffold
- Part B - Resources
- -McKie Library Catalogue; Encyclopedia Britannica School - High;
EBSCO resources – ANZ Reference Centre; eBooks; Points of View
Create an EBSCO account; Websites; Dewey Decimal System;
- Part C - Record
- Definitions – plagiarism, bibliography, citation, copyright
- Bibliography ; Online Bibliography template – High School
- Completing your investigation ;Acknowledgements

43. Year 7
Assembly of Notables
McKie Library Research Program

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Year 7 – Assembly of Notables Research (AON)
• All of Year 7 undertake to study a notable person who is Dead,
Daring and Disruptive and represents a specific area of world or local
history from social activism to science
Examples include – Martin Luther King Jnr; Marie Curie;
• As part of this program the Library plays an important role in
resourcing and researching
• Teacher librarian prepares a research program and presents to each
Year 7 class and then they have another lesson of working through
their researching with guidance
• The Library team researches the notables and assists to ensure that
all students will have success with their searching of both print and
digital resources
• Resources are noted in the catalogue with AON

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Assembly of Notables Catalogue record

46. http://library.kilvington.vic.edu.au
McKie Library
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Assembly of Notables Resources Guide

48. How are you planning to record your research resources?
• Use the Bibliography
template
• Need the vital parts of each
resource
• Be consistent
• Check your spelling
• Proof your work
 Start recording now …………………..
 Print book
 Online Encyclopedia
 Website
 eBook
 Video
 Image
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Staff – show them how you can help them!
Staff
1. Individual
2. Small team
3. Subject area
4. Department
5. Faculty
6. Whole staff
Students
1. Students – Individuals
2. Students – Small groups
3. Students – Class
4. Students – Subject area
5. Students – Year level

50. Kilvington Grammar School
McKie Library Research Program
Jane Viner – Head of Library Resource Services
June 2017
DIGITAL RESOURCES –
CONNECT, CHANGE &
COLLABORATE

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McKie Library “Library Reading Lounge”

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Diya James Year 3 – our new student author
“Voldemort’s pursuit of glory” December 7th 2017

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Acknowledgements
• McKie Library Team
- Jordan Adams, Senior Library and AudioVisual Technician
• - Vanessa Grosso, Senior Library and AudioVisual Technician
• Mr Jon Charlton, Principal and Mrs Davina McClure, Vice Principal
• Kilvington Student Leaders, Students, Staff and Parents
• Kilvington Book Club members
• Library colleagues, ASLA, SLAV Southern Metropolitan Branch
• Photographs taken by Jane Viner and McKie Library Team

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The long road less travelled is worth it in the end!

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The Welcome mat – remember to have it out!

58. Jane Viner
Head of Library Resource Services
vinerj@kilvington.vic.edu.a
u
Kilvington Grammar School
McKie Resource Centre
2 Leila Road
Ormond, Victoria , Australia 3204
@vinerjane
2018 Connect and create a great school library Jane Viner