Target audience & school level

• Principals and senior school staff
• Teachers with Library Responsibility
• School library staff
• All levels: primary and secondary

Learning objectives

Course will enable participant schools to:

• define what a ‘balanced 21st Century library collection’ might mean for your students
• learn more about print and e-resources and the tools to read them - implications for your students
• make a start on your e-Reference collection
• design and implement your own library-based student learning initiative, targeting a group of students in your school who could benefit from your proposed collection development directions.

Course content

Course content will explore such issues as:

• what your library budget should focus on by way of print and e-resources, to build a balanced collection for your students
• identifying the learning needs your library collection is designed to meet through its collection
• availability and access - print and electronic - some of the issues and opportunities
• a 21st Century Reference Collection - what this might look like
• ebooks - exploring issues for adding these to your library collection

Earlybird discount

An Earlybird discount of 20% applies to registrations received by the stated Earlybird close-off date, after which the full fee applies.