5.3 Professional Learning resources

• Professional Associations:
  • Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) - Tasmania 
  • Australian School Library Association (ASLA) - Tasmania
  • ALIA National Library Technicians
  • ALIA TALIATecs (TAS)
  • Women in Information Technology in Tasmania (WIITT)
  • Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA)
• Professional listservs and discussion groups may be accessed from the ALIA website (NB you do not need to be a member to join the ALIA elists). OZTL-Net is a very useful discussion lists as is Taslib-link an excellent discussion list for school library staff in Tasmania.
• TALIS training in circulation, searching, item maintenance and original cataloguing is available for all government school library staff and is vital for TALIS libraries. Contact Systems at the State Library on 6233 7939 or email

Useful periodicals for school libraries:

• ASLA’s Access (ASLA member journal)
• Computers in libraries (US publication)
• Educator's Spotlight Digest: an online publication of S.O.S. for information literacy (free, online US publication) 
• FYI: the journal for the school information professional (Quarterly periodical published by School Library Association of Victoria)
• FNO.ORG (From Now On): the educational technology journal
• inCite (ALIA’s journal. Some articles available online.)
• Knowledge Quest (US publication. Some articles available online)
• Literature base (published by Magpies)
• Magpies: talking about books for children
• MultiMedia & Internet@Schools (US publication. Some articles available online)
• Online currents (an independent Australian journal for users of online services, CDROMs and the Internet. Available in print and electronic formats.)
• The Question Mark: an educational journal devoted to questions, questioning, sound intelligence, strategic reading and quality teaching
• Reading time (quarterly journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia.)
• Scan (publication of the NSW Education Dept.)
• School libraries worldwide (publication of the International Association of School Libraries. Abstracts of articles available online)
• School Library Journal (US publication)
• Teacher Librarian (Canadian publication)
• Warrior Librarian Weekly: the zine for librarians who refuse to be classified (Humour for librarians. Available online only.)

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