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		<title>Your comments say it all</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our request for a national review of Australian school libraries has been sent to Julia Gillard.  It has been supported by our petition which at the time had 1600 signatures.  The petition remains open and your comments are particularly telling:
&#8220;The BER was intended to promote and enhance school libraries, but in Queensland, under misguided departmental [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=957&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maralyn Parker, Daily Tele, supports our cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sydney Daily Telegraph education journalist, Maralyn Parker, has taken up our cause with an excellent opinion piece in today&#8217;s Tele.  (See page 28.)  It also appears, with minor changes, on her blog, with links to our petition and to The Hub. There is an opportunity to comment  
She has discovered that some 2802 new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=947&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping their legacy Pt 2: A national review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few are still with us who led the campaign for our school libraries in the 60s and 70s.  There are no more state supervisors of school library services.  There are no more state school library services.  In fact, one is hard pressed to find any mention of school libraries on some state and territory department [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=928&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How will we keep their legacy? Pt. 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roy Lundin.  Joyce Fardell.  Margaret Trask. Jim Dwyer. Laurie McGrath. John Gorton. Malcolm Fraser.  How many of us know what they did for the school libraries we now work in and which our children love?   Jim Dwyer’s ACE Archival Brief No. 7 tells us.
There were no school libraries to speak of before Professor Sarah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=916&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petition deadline Thursday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week the sitting of Parliament resumes in Canberra. The Petitions Committee chair will receive our petition on Friday and take it to the Minister of Education and her counterparts next week.  So last chance to sign.
Then, what do you think might be our next step?  Many in the Australian library community have for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=913&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our first 1000 signatures!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! Over 1000 signatures in two weeks, since our launch on 20 October.  This is something surely every Australian parent and bookseller and author and teacher and teacher educator and teacher librarian should support.  So don&#8217;t just sign, but pass on the petition to your Australian friends, relations and colleagues who will support [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=909&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sign our petition now</title>
		<link>http://hubinfo.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/sign-our-petition-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sign our petition now
According to a recent survey of Australian school libraries, 35% of Australian public school libraries have no professional staffing. Tas, WA, Vic and the NT had the lowest number of teacher librarians (TLs) employed.
Yet, “a strong library program that is adequately staffed, resourced and funded can lead to higher student achievement regardless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=891&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hub at ASLA XXI</title>
		<link>http://hubinfo.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/the-hub-at-asla-xxi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, in 24 hours I will know if it was standing room only, or if the room echoed with the sounds of me rustling my notes.  Yes, The Hub is appearing in person tomorrow at the ASLA XXI Biennial Conference.  We were a last minute entry,   due to the late cancellation of some other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=885&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity for Action at ASLA conference</title>
		<link>http://hubinfo.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/action-needed-at-asla-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



The Australian School Library Association Conference next week in Perth is an opportunity to rededicate ourselves as teachers, librarians, parents, writers, and citizens to reversing the decline of school libraries in this country.

The Australian School Libraries Research Project (ASLRP) by ALIA, ASLA and Edith Cowan University, provides us initial &#8220;snapshots&#8221; on the current state of school library [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=872&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Support Indigenous Literacy in NT schools by staffing them with TLs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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It can&#8217;t hurt Indigenous Literacy Day that they have the Prime Minister&#8217;s wife as a patron.  I wonder if she knows how poorly off school libraries are in the NT?

95% of NT schools have NO school librarians!  which may go a long way towards explaining illiteracy.

Most schools in the NT have budget of less than $1000 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubinfo.wordpress.com&blog=1430066&post=851&subd=hubinfo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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