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To supercharge student success: start with a great school library

We had the pleasure of interviewing Holly Godfree, Teacher Librarian and Campaign Coordinator for the Students Need School Libraries campaign. Answering questions about this exciting Australia-wide initiative, promoting the importance of school libraries!

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2019 School Library Survey Preview – Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific

Preliminary statistics for the 2019 Softlink Australia, New Zealand, and Asia Pacific School Library Survey.

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Relationship-based Teaching & Learning – the school librarian’s superpower (and how to boost it with Oliver v5)

School librarians are in a position to build relationships with students in which their interests, rather than just literacy and assessment objectives, can provide the focus for active and engaged learning.

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Category: Innovation

What tools are needed to promote a reading for pleasure culture?

At the SLA Weekend Course, Lexplore and Softlink took a poll asking which tools were required to help create and drive a reading for pleasure culture. This blog post shares the results of this poll and the “Reading for Pleasure Guide” produced by Lexplore.

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The ongoing importance of school libraries

In 2015, Softlink published our first feature document, sharing written comments and feedback provided by respondents to that year’s Australia and New Zealand School Library Survey. The feature was titled “What are the top 7 challenges for school libraries”, and drew from responses to one of the standard optional questions at the end of the survey “What is one thing you would change about your library or role?”

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