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Training Programme 2012–13 Working with School Library Services and Local Education Authorities in: Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Devon, Lincolnshire, London Boroughs of Camden and Redbridge, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Powys, Somerset, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire

REGIONAL TRAINING DAYS A. Primary

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1. Becoming an Information Skills Champion – Developing Information Literacy Skills and using the Primary School Library 2. Getting to Grips with the Primary School Library

B. Primary and Secondary 3. The E-Reading Revolution*

C. Secondary 4. Being in the Know: The Secondary School Library and Curriculum Change 11–18 5. Bridging the Gap: How Libraries Can Deliver Independent Learning Skills for post-16 Students 6. Get Them Reading: Literacy Strategies in the Secondary School 7. Getting the Best from Young People and Adults: Managing Behaviour in the Secondary School Library 8. Getting to Grips with Developing and Managing E-Book Collections: An Introduction 9. Getting to Grips with the School Library: Library Management in Secondary Schools 10. Multimedia and the School Library 11. Quick and Easy Publications: Promoting the Library with in-house Materials* 12. Tackling Information Literacy in the Secondary School 13. Teaching Skills for School Librarians 14. What’s so Special about Digital Copyright?*

* New courses for 2012–13

Additional courses may be added throughout the year – check the SLA website for details. SLA Branches also run training events in their areas – please contact Branch Secretaries for further details. Contact details for all SLA Branches can be found on www.sla.org.uk/branches The next SLA Weekend Training Course – Reaching Out: New Ways to Engage – will be held on 21–23 June 2013 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Full details will be published in The School Librarian and on the SLA website.

with teachers to improve learning, developing reading for pleasure, effective communication and evaluation.

A. COURSES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS

By the end of the day participants will be able to write a school library policy and development plan, know how to create a user-friendly, accessible library and be able to evaluate their library’s impact on learning and teaching.

1. Becoming an Information Skills Champion – Developing Information Literacy Skills and using the Primary School Library

Trainer: Annike Dase Key audience: primary school staff with responsibility for the school library Venue and date:

This is a course to get you thinking about effective ways of using the school library and its resources to develop information literacy across the curriculum. It will look at the nature and range of information literacy, consider ways to make library use more effective, and give you lots of ideas and strategies for improving your pupils’ research and information handling skills.

Dulwich Prep, London

In September 2012, Annike took up a new appointment at the Greenwood Academies Trust. For the previous eight years she was employed at Trent College and The Elms Junior School where she developed a primary school library from scratch and implemented a library curriculum for Foundation to Key Stage 2 – two working with a variety of children, teachers and school managers in the process. Annike is a member of the SLA Executive Board and has delivered courses on a number of occasions for the SLA and other organisations.

As always PowerPoint slides and MS doc. handouts will be freely available. Trainer: Geoff Dubber Key audience: primary school staff with responsibility for the school library Venues and dates: Brecon Library, Powys

18 October 2012

Central Library, Ilford

6 March 2013

Professional Development Centre, Melksham, Wiltshire

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‘Lovely, helpful, informal atmosphere. Passionate, interesting presenter. Inspiring.’ —J Krawiedra, Year 6 Teacher/Literacy Coordinator, Oughtrington CP School

2 May 2013

Geoff Dubber is a freelance consultant/trainer working with everyone in the UK and further afield to promote effective library use. He has 40+ years teaching, management, library and advisory/consultancy experience with schools, both primary and secondary. He is a former Chair of the School Library Association, and has served on the SLA Board and as Publications Co-ordinator for nearly two decades. He is author or co-author of many of the SLA’s Guidelines series, including those on information literacy, transition, running a book event, behaviour management, secondary library budgeting and secondary library policy.

B. COURSE FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS 3. The E-Reading Revolution E-books are becoming very popular but there are so many choices to be made before using them in schools – which device, who will benefit most from using them and what are the practicalities? Would it be better to buy books individually or buy into one of the new e-book platforms? The library is, of course, the most natural environment in which to introduce this exciting way of reading but it’s not a ‘one size fits all’ situation and what suits one group of students may not be engaging for another. Tablets are also causing quite a stir but finding app gems amongst the whole mess of the app store is indeed like digging for buried treasure – without a map! This course will discuss the pluses and minuses of several devices, inform you about how to set them up for school use and give some possible uses for learning and teaching as well as showcasing apps that you can use to encourage young people to read for pleasure and information.

‘Very clear ideas for developing our school library.’

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— A Webster, Deputy Head/Literacy Co-ordinator, Royal Grammar School, Worcester ‘Geoff presents this course in an interesting, engaging and professional manner.’ —J Cowling, Assistant Librarian, NE Wales SLS

2. Getting to Grips with the Primary School Library This one day course will be looking at ways of organising books and other media effectively to make them accessible to staff and children, and will begin with an introduction to strategic planning through the library policy and development plan. Further issues which will be addressed include: budgeting, links with the curriculum, working

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Trainer: Bev Humphrey

Trainer: Geoff Dubber

Key audience: primary and secondary library staff

Key audience: secondary school library staff

Venues and dates:

Venue and date:

Professional Development Centre, Norwich, Norfolk The Kingston Centre, Stafford

Swiss Cottage Library, London 9 November 2012

21 May 2013

(see course 1 for biographical notes)

12 March 2013

‘Great value for money, learned a lot.’

Bev Humphrey is a literacy, school libraries and technology consultant after spending 10 years as a school librarian. Working in an all-boys secondary school in South East London she developed a passion for encouraging students to read and write for pleasure, often using online media. She received a Reading Hero Award from the Literacy Trust for her work and her international collaborative writing project, the Write Path, was shortlisted for a Times Educational Supplement New Literacy Initiative Award in 2009. She been shortlisted twice for a Lemos and Crane Literacy Award. Bev was an SSAT Lead Practitioner for literacy. Bev has presented at seminars and conferences all over the country for E2BN, Renaissance Learning, CILIP, SLG and SLA amongst others.

—M Evans, Librarian, William Hulme’s Grammar School

5. Bridging the Gap: How Libraries Can Deliver Independent Learning Skills for post-16 Students This course will appeal to librarians who are looking to become more involved in working with staff and students at developing advanced research skills. It will introduce the basics concepts of Information Literacy (IL) and how to use it to develop independent learners. During the day delegates will investigate how to tailor IL skills development for the needs of post-16 students and help them to meet the requirements of Extended Project Qualifications, with specific reference to the requirements of the AQA Bac. By the end of the day they will have a greater awareness of Web 2.0 tools that can help post-16 students to develop their IL skills, obtained practical ideas of how to present IL skills to post-16 students and enhanced their understanding of the importance of IL to post 16 students.

C. COURSES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS 4. Being in the Know: The Secondary School Library and Curriculum Change 11–18

Trainer: Anne-Marie Tarter Key audience: secondary school library staff Venue and date:

Putting the library centre stage in the curriculum is a vital role for all school library staff, so planning for curriculum change is essential. The government is about to make some far- reaching changes to the curriculum at both Key Stages 3 and 4 and to 16+ examinations that will have repercussions for all schools. Reading for Pleasure is high on the political agenda as a key priority. OFSTED are also more concerned with student reading than in recent years.

Frome Community College, Somerset

21 May 2013

Originally from California, Anne-Marie retired in 2010 after working in school libraries for 25 years. Her most recent post was at Ripon Grammar School where she ran three different libraries, including a purpose built 6th form Learning Centre which she helped to design. She was involved in delivering both the AS course in Critical Thinking, and in the preparation of students for the Extended Project Qualification element of the AQA Bacc. At national level she has served on both the executive board of the SLA, and the executive committee of the Schools Library Group of CILIP. She was a member on the working parties that helped to write the last two editions of the CILIP Guidelines for Secondary School Libraries. In Spring 2006, she was awarded the School Library Association’s School Librarian of the Year. She now works as an independent trainer and consultant.

We are also at the start of a period of rapid educational structural changes – free schools, academies, pressure on the public library service, rising pupil numbers etc. So what about a role for the school library? Ignored or Invigorated? This course will look at some of the important changes influencing and affecting school libraries. Delegates will examine planned and projected changes to the KS2 National Curriculum (to get an idea of the skills they can expect from new intake pupils) and explore how newly implemented and projected changes to the KS3 National Curriculum will affect information literacy progression. Participants will consider the implications of the rise in popularity of IB and EPQ, changes to the 14+ and 16+ exam systems and the English Bacc. This course will provide individuals with useful knowledge to face the future with vision and confidence.

’Very good speaker. Very interesting slides and videos and excellent support option on wiki after the course.’ —P Copeman, Librarian, Claires Court Schools

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handouts will be freely available and Geoff will bring along a selection of useful publications.

6. Get Them Reading: Literacy Strategies in the Secondary School

Trainer: Geoff Dubber ‘I haven’t got time to read’, ‘All the books I try are boring’, ‘Boys don’t read’.

Key audience: secondary school library staff Venue and date:

Television, on-line games, sport, music, hanging out with friends in real life or cyberspace, school and sleep – there have never been so many activities competing for the attention of young people.

Epsom College, Epsom, Surrey (see course 1 for biographical notes)

This course is aimed at secondary school library staff and teachers who want to encourage pupils to read, and to suggest reading material which will ignite their imaginations. Starting before pupils arrive at secondary school and following them to Year 13, participants will look at the questions: Why read? Who reads? Where to read? What to read? There will be time for discussion, practical exercises, and plenty of tried and tested tips to get pupils reading.

8. Getting to Grips with Developing and Managing E-Book Collections: An Introduction This introductory course opens the door to a new electronic format and is designed to support school librarians who are beginning to set up e-book collections. In the last ten years, there has been an unprecedented growth in the publishing of e-books with an increasing array of different types available for all sectors. The programme will give you the opportunity to explore different e-books including a range of commerciallypublished and free reference works, monographs, textbooks, and fiction. Examples will include individual titles and also collections of e-books, such as those offered by NetLibrary, Credo, MyiLibrary and Questia. JISC Collections for Schools will also be introduced. The course will also facilitate consideration of the new opportunities e-books offer for school libraries and their users, and will explore some of the significant collection management and promotional issues which challenge school librarians.

Trainer: Jean Allen Key audience: secondary school library staff Venues and dates: Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln Great Moor House, Exeter, Devon

6 February 2013

11 March 2013 date tbc

After 13 years in university librarianship, Jean took a step into the unknown and became librarian at a secondary boys’ school in Birmingham. Passionate about reading, she has developed many successful strategies over the last 12 years to encourage pupils (especially boys) to become confident, adventurous and independent readers. Jean is Chair of the Midlands Branch of the School Library Association. She wanted to call this course ‘Getting the B*****s to Read’, but didn’t think she’d be allowed to.

In addition to talks, the course includes practical exercises. One will allow delegates to explore examples of online ebooks in a structured way. Others will comprise activities during which delegates will examine the major collection management, and marketing and promotion issues so as to enable delegates to compare their findings with current professional practice.

7. Getting the Best from Young People and Adults: Managing Behaviour in the Secondary School Library

Trainers: Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale Key audience: secondary school library staff Venues and dates: Kings of Wessex Academy, Cheddar, Somerset

Working effectively with young people and colleagues across the school is an essential part of the work of everyone who works in a school library. It can sometimes be challenging and stressful in a busy, crowded and inclusive library where support from senior and middle managers sometimes appears problematic.

8 November 2012

Cumbria

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North Yorkshire

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Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale have been working in the field of e-book development for the past 14 years. They are members of the Joint Information Systems Committee e-Book Working Group, which has been promoting the publishing and uptake of e-books in higher and further education and sixth form colleges. Ray is Reader in Information Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a former editor of The School Librarian. For the past 24 years, Chris has run a consultancy and training company, Information Automation Limited, specialising in the field of e-publishing and e-resources. Chris and Ray have been conducting training courses in the field of electronic information nationally and internationally for some years.

This course will give delegates the opportunity to reflect upon the importance of having a high profile and professional identity. During the day they will consider OFSTED’s observations about behaviour in school and details from the latest OFSTED handbook, be updated on recent advice and directives produced by the DfE on behavioural issues and look at a range of practical strategies and techniques to use when dealing with individuals or groups. Colleagues will be invited to share experiences, policies and practice. PowerPoint slides and other MS Word doc. 4

9. Getting to Grips with the School Library: Library Management in Secondary Schools

11. Quick and Easy Publications: Promoting the Library with inhouse Materials

A course designed to help and support anyone about to start, or already running, a secondary school library. Topics include setting up your library, stock management, budgeting, cataloguing and basic classification, library promotion, working with staff and students, library documentation and behaviour management.

Learn to create a house style for your publications and set up templates so that they can be quickly compiled. Using your library management system extract blurbs and book cover images to create attractive reading lists and shelf tags. Produce library leaflets that can be adapted for individual subject coverage or target audiences, create a template for announcements, posters and much more. This training course will include the opportunity to develop your own publications, and will cover a number of programs, but concentrating on Microsoft Word and Powerpoint. A memory stick will be provided with some pre-loaded examples that can be adapted for individual school use and where you can store what you create on the day. Either using your own laptops, or at a venue with computers available bring specific information (e.g. book titles) to make the day productive so you can return with your first completed item.

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Trainer: Ginette Doyle Key audience: secondary school library staff Venue and date:

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Ginette made the decision to become a librarian while working in a library as a Saturday assistant when she was still at school. She started her career working in public libraries, specialising in reference and local history, and moved to work in schools following a career break. Having worked in different types of schools over the years both as a solo librarian and as part of a team she now manages the libraries of a co-educational independent school.

Trainer: Ginette Doyle Key audience: secondary school library staff

‘Ginette was brilliant, very interesting and entertaining.’

Venue and date:

—S Klysz, Media Resources Assistant (Library), Highams Park School

(see course 9 for biographical notes)

12. Tackling Information Literacy in the Secondary School

10. Multimedia and the School Library

Starting by showing how one school librarian demonstrated the need for a whole school approach to skills for learning, this course will identify aspects of information skills throughout all secondary Key Stages. Specific sessions on plagiarism and citation will be followed by a look at questioning. We will explore ways to assist students’ higher level thinking skills which is more likely to attract positive feedback from OFSTED inspectors. Time will also be devoted to looking at the issues of Sixth Form Induction.

Working in groups of two or three, delegates on this course will explore recent development in multimedia. This will include creating podcasts, using a flip camera to produce video, chat rooms, creating multimedia presentations including video, images, music and using images creatively to produce magazine covers, film posters and trading cards. Although a familiarity with the computer is an advantage, no technical knowledge is required.

Delegates will be encouraged to consider how best to work with senior management and colleagues in their own schools, ensuring that the librarian takes a pivotal role in furthering student media literacy. The day will include sharing sessions and time will be allowed for planning for future development. The course is expected to appeal to librarians who wish to focus on the skills teaching aspect of their role, to extend the scope of what they already do and to raise the profile of Information Literacy within their own organisations.

Trainer: Phil Bradley Key audience: secondary school library staff Venue and date: Graham School, Scarborough

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8 November 2012

Phil Bradley is an information specialist and internet consultant who works in the information industry. He is well known to SLA members as he has run many courses in the past for the organisation. He is also a writer and well known speaker at conferences, exhibitions and staff days. Phil is President of CILIP, but is speaking in a private capacity.

Trainer: Lin Smith Key audience: secondary school library staff Venue and date: St Mary’s School, Shaftesbury, Dorset

date tbc

Currently employed at Ecclesbourne (an OFSTED rated ‘outstanding’ school with specialisms in both Technology and Arts), Lin Smith originally set up study skills projects

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14. What’s So Special About Digital Copyright?

under the auspices of the Leading Edge initiative. She has been developing Sixth Form exploitation of library resources; a work in progress with the development of the EPQ. Lin is a past Chair of ADLIBS (Derbyshire/Derby City Librarians in Schools), has set up the local Heritage User Group and is a CILIP Mentor. At present she is Chair of the SLA, sitting on the Training committee. Lin is passionate about developing the impact that a School Librarian can make on learning. She has worked in three, very different, secondary schools and has been a Chartered Librarian for more than thirty years.

This course will cover the following topics: a reminder of what copyright is and the major exceptions, focusing on fair dealing, educational and library exceptions. The focus then moves to why is digital different? It then considers some copyright issues as applied to digital, including Creative Commons licences, cloud computing, and Web 2.0. The focus then moves to recent developments, including orphan works, the Hargreaves Review of UK copyright law, and the Digital Economy Act. Finally, risks of infringement by staff or students is examined, and the role of the school librarian in risk management and licence negotiation is considered. The event will include a quiz (with a tasty prize!) and end with a question and answer session where questions, either submitted in advance or made during the event, will get answered, though questions and comments throughout the sessions are encouraged.

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‘Very good trainer – good atmosphere – excellent handouts.’ —S Warner, School Librarian, The Ravenscroft School

13. Teaching Skills for School Librarians Developing new skills and adapting to new learning environments is essential for increasing levels of information literacy amongst library users. Delegates on this one-day participative course will build on current experiences of teaching information skills in libraries and learning centres. Divided into five sessions, they will look firstly at the nature of teaching and learning before considering each step of the process – planning, delivering, assessing and receiving feedback. Delegates will be involved with stimulating discussions and there will be the opportunity to share experiences so if you are working with young people, students, small groups of library users or staff this course will help you develop your skills as a teacher and trainer.

It is assumed that the attendees will have a basic knowledge of copyright law, but no more. Trainer: Charles Oppenheim Key audience: secondary school library staff Venues and dates: St Paul’s RC Academy, Dundee Warwickshire School Library Service, Warwick

Trainers: Chris Powis Venues and dates: Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn, Lancashire 15 November 2012 Worcester Library, Worcestershire

5 June 2013

Charles Oppenheim was, until he retired in 2009, Professor of, and Head of Department of, Information Science at Loughborough University, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Queensland University. Previously he held posts in academia and the electronic publishing industry. He has published widely on Intellectual Property rights and licences and is a copyright consultant to a number of private and public sector bodies, including the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

Key audience: secondary school library staff

Central Library, Cambridge

23 April 2013

date tbc 5 February 2013

Chris Powis is Head of Library and Learning Services at the University of Northampton and a National Teaching Fellow. He has delivered this programme to a wide range of audiences across the UK and Europe and has written and spoken widely on teaching and learning.

He is a member of the UK’s Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance and of the team that negotiates licences on behalf of the UK higher and further education communities with the Copyright Licensing Agency. He is also a member of the European Commission’s Legal Advisory Board.

‘Chris Powis is a very good trainer. The session was planned and delivered well. Very good practical application.’

He is the author of ‘The No-Nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing’ (Facet, 2012).

—S Murdoch, Librarian and Careers Co-ordinator, Fernhill Secondary School and Language College

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