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ALIA-ASLA standards of professional excellence for teacher librarians

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) are pleased to endorse and promote this statement of standards of professional excellence for teacher librarians. This statement describes the professional knowledge, skills and commitment demonstrated by teacher librarians working at a level of excellence. It represents the goals to which all Australian teacher librarians should aspire, and provides inspiration for quality teaching and ongoing professional practice.

School library resource centre guidelines for self reflection and evaluation

This document, prepared in a joint partnership by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Schools and the Victorian Catholic Teacher Librarians (VCTL), aims to support schools in their self reflection. The information gathered would contribute to a self reflection report. In addition, the document provides a valuable strategy to use in the ongoing monitoring of the school’s improvement plans.

Beyond a quality service: strengthening the social fabric. Standards and guidelines for Australian public libraries 2nd ed.

This document is an evidence-based guide for the development of public library services in Australia. It uses the National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) annual collation of state and territory statistics as its evidence base, and builds on the earlier work on standards and guidelines carried out by the State Libraries of New South Wales and Queensland.
 

National vision and framework 2010 - 2015. Document 2 of 3: workplan for the library sector

Developed by the Australian Library & Information Association, in partnership with Public Libraries Australia, Friends of Libraries Australia, State and Terriyory Libraries, ACT Library and Information Services and the state public library associations

This document is a workplan for the ALIA Public Libraries Advisory Committee (PLAC).

National vision and framework 2010 - 2015. Document 1 of 3: strategic overview for the library sector

Developed by the Australian Library & Information Association, in partnership with Public Libraries Australia, Friends of Libraries Australia, State and Territory Libraries, ACT Library and Information Services and the state public library associations

This overview is intended for library professionals, to explain the background to the development of the national vision and framework for public libraries and to provide information that can be used in support of local business cases

The little book of public libraries

The Little Book of Public Libraries is for people who love libraries and want to share their passion with others.If you are already a library champion, this book will give you key messages that you can pass on to friends and colleagues. If not it will open your eyes to the valuable contribution libraries make to families, communities, society, and the economy as a whole.

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