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Welcome your students back with a new library display

When it comes to encouraging more student engagement in the library, there are many options, but none more creative than the prospect of a new library display.

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2020: Oh, what a year it was!

2020 has been a year full of challenges felt around the world, but we’re hopeful for a better year to come. Things looked a little different for us this year, but we still have some highlights we’d like to share!

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Virtual LearnPacathon 2020

Thank you to all of our LearnPacathon 2020 entrants for their outstanding effort! Take a look at the winning guide and our honourable mentions here.

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Category: Community

School library funding, staffing, and resourcing – a 10-year review

First published in ACCESS, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2020, this blog post reviews the 2010 Federal Government Inquiry into school libraries and presents data and responses collected from Softlink surveys during this time.

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Search strategies for improved search results

Whether you’re searching the internet or searching Oliver, using good search strategies will provide you with a much more satisfactory search result. This blog explores wildcard searching, Boolean search operators, phrase searching, relational searching, searching in Oliver, and we’ve also provided some lesson plans that help students use Google more effectively.

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