Edinburgh Networking Meeting - SLIC

As mentioned in our last blog, Louise Cooper and Rob Westwood from the Scottish Library & Information Council came along to our Edinburgh Networking Meeting to talk about the work being carried out in relation to Scottish school libraries. 


SLIC has been instrumental in recent years in producing 'How Good is Our School Library?', which aims to support library staff and senior managers to evaluate the specific contributions the library makes to school improvement, and the National Strategy for School Libraries, 'Vibrant Libraries, Thriving Schools'. They also administer the School Library Improvement Fund, which has funded some excellent projects in school libraries across Scotland. We were delighted to learn from Louise that there will be a new round of SLIF funding in January so start thinking about those bids now!
Louise has also helped set up the 'Basecamp' forum for school librarians - this is a great resource and way to share information across the school librarian community. If you have not signed up yet, please contact Louise at l.cooper@scottishlibraries.org and she will add your name to the Basecamp group.
Rob has recently been appointed to SLIC to consider the creation of an information literacy toolkit for school librarians. He is currently reading through the results of the survey on the provision of information literacy in schools which many of us completed earlier this year and carrying out much research into this area. We are looking forward to seeing the creation of such a toolkit which will pull together many resources, especially as this is such a rapidly evolving area.
Thank you again to Louise and Rob for coming along.

SLA Scotland Edinburgh Networking Meeting

Thanks to everyone who came along to our Networking meeting in Edinburgh on a dreich Friday afternoon. Although hailing from many varied library environments including primary and secondary, state, independent and specialist schools, it was interesting to note that we all face similar challenges (and triumphs). It was good to be able to chat and to share good practice and we hope to run a similar meeting next term. If you can't wait until then, don't forget that we're holding a meeting in Hazlehead Academy in Aberdeen on 27th November (more information on our Eventbrite page or by emailing us at scotsla@gmail.com)
Special thanks to Louise Cooper and Rob Westwood who came along to talk to us about developments for school libraries at the Scottish Library Information Council. Thank you also to McDonald Road Library in Edinburgh who hosted the meeting for us.

Book Week Scotland

Happy Book Week Scotland! There are some great events happening all over Scotland for Book Week Scotland and we're sure you have plenty of activities planned to mark this week. The theme this year is "blether". If you are still looking for last minute ideas, don't forget to check out the Book Week Scotland website and resources - we're looking forward to hearing the 'Gruffalo' in Scots later this week!

We would love to hear what you are doing in your school libraries to celebrate Book Week Scotland so please leave a comment below sharing what you are doing this week.

SLA Scotland Meeting in Aberdeen - 27th November

We have organised a second networking event which will take place in Aberdeen on Wednesday, 27th November 2019 from 2.30pm to 4pm at Hazlehead Academy, Groats Road, Aberdeen, AB15 8BE.
This will be a great opportunity to network with other school librarians, share good practice and discuss some of the latest developments in Scottish school libraries (including How Good is our School Library, the National Strategy (Vibrant Libraries, Thriving Schools), the First Minister's Reading Challenge, the School Library Improvement Fund, and the new Education Scotland Professional Learning Community for Librarians. Everyone is welcome. You can get more information by emailing DScott@aberdeencity.gov.uk or by clicking on the Eventbrite page.

As stated previously on the blog, we are also holding a Networking meeting in Edinburgh on Friday, 15th November 2019. More information here or by emailing scotsla@gmail.com.