Hubbers off to California!

Three of our Hubbers are heading off to the International Association of School Libraries conference in Berkeley, California, which starts this weekend.

 

Barbara Combes, Vice-President, Advocacy and Promotion of IASL and lecturer for the School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS) at Edith Cowan University.  Barbara is presenting a paper on her PhD research on information seeking behavior of the Net Generation.

 

Dona Hartwich, Senior Librarian, Horsham College, is presenting on the value of TLs in teaching information literacy. And she got coverage about her trip in her local Horsham paper!

 

Leonie Paatsch, Hub co-founder, is running a workshop on teachers as reading role models for teens. Sure to be a winner!

 

We know all three will be hits and we hope they will get the opportunity to network with Canadian and American TL activists and bring back ideas for stratagies for our campaign.  Right girrrrls?!!!

 

Have a great time and come back with new ideas!!

Georgia

 

Letters to editors

Well done to hubber Kerry for this letter to the editor in the Brisbane Courier Mail, who kindly added a photo for emphasis.  Click here to see. 

Have you written to your local paper lately?  Well, what are you waiting for?  Let us know if you are successful and we will add it to the “advocacy in the media” page.

Post broadcast euphoria

It’s a good day here at the Hub.   One of our projects was finally completed last night, with the broadcast on Radio National.  If you haven’t heard it yet, here’s the link.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/perspective/stories/2008/2304255.htm 

Both audio and transcipt are available, but the audio is so much better!
 
If you would like to leave feedback, you can do so on the ABC site, or here at the Hub, if you like. 
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/perspective/haveyoursay/
 Of course, TLs aren’t the ones who really need to hear this, so feel free to send this to non TLs, such as principals, teachers, and especially parents.

Thanks to Sharon for all the hours she has put into this, including the recording session at ABC.  Thanks also to Georgia Phillips for her editing assistance and Peter MacInnis for all his help.  No time to rest though, on with the next project!

NEWSFLASH! Listen to Radio National tonight!

Sorry about the short notice readers, but we didn’t know ourselves.  Listen to hubber Sharon McGuinness at 5.55pm tonight on Radio National’s Perspectives program.  It doesn’t matter which state you are in, it’s on at that time in all parts of Australia.  Here’s how to tune in.

Adelaide 729AM | Brisbane 792AM | Canberra 846AM Darwin 657AM |
Gold Coast 90.1FM | Hobart 585AM Melbourne 621AM | Newcastle 1512AM
Perth 810AM | Sydney 576AM

or go to http://www.abc.net.au/rn/audio.htm to listen online.

Hopefully we’ll be able to give you a link to listen again later in the week via their site.

Several hours later - here’s the link!

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/perspective/stories/2008/2304255.htm