LIASA-SLYSIG 1ST BIENNIAL SCHOOL & FET COLLEGES LIBRARY CONFERENCE 15-16 2 JULY 2014@CLARENCE

PRIMARY SCHOOL

Times Main Hall Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6

Day 1 AM

8.30 9.30

Registration with Tea, Coffee, Juice and Muffins on arrival (this can be refreshed for incidental help yourself as you move around in the am.)

9.45 -10.45

Welcome & Opening Ceremony - Ujala Satgoor & Mrs Dubazana

11.00-12.00

Keynote Address 1 - Naomi Bates – Libraries & Librarians in the 21st century

Breakaway Sessions

Room 1. Secondary School libraries

Room 2. Public Libraries & FET College Libraries

Room 3. Foundation Phase & Primary School Libraries

Room 4. Libraries & Technology

Room 5. Training & Development of Librarians

Room 6. Role of the Library & the Librarian

12.10- 12.40

Session 1

Naomi Bates It's Showtime! How

to create book trailers

to attract readers

Righard Leroux Ensuring “that all

learners are literate

and independent,

lifelong readers”

Isobel Sobey Readers’ Notebooks

A tool for making reading a lifelong real & personal experience

Eugiene Neville The Traditional Class Novel given a Twist of Technology

Lianda Coetzer Taking giant steps in reviving the dying breed of Librarians through the training of teacher librarians: an initiative at the School of Open Learning, University of the Free State

Edward Jimla Promotion of libraries in the 21st century: cutting across digital literacy(open access, efundi etc), library facilities and new technology

12.4513.15

Session 2

Marianne Elliot FET COLLEGES

The role of the FET

library in Reading,

Teaching and

Learning

Irene Reid Reading Aloud

(FP & SP & High ) Jim Trelease – “our

objective is to create life time readers....”

Sue Holmes eBooks and ePlatforms Are they the way to go?

Joy Rosario Content Curation

13.30-14.30

Packed Lunch to eat in the Garden/Outdoors – Browsing exhibitions & book sellers etc.

LIASA-SLYSIG 1ST BIENNIAL SCHOOL & FET COLLEGES LIBRARY CONFERENCE 15-16 2 JULY 2014@CLARENCE

PRIMARY SCHOOL

Day 1 PM

14. 45 -16.00

Keynote Address 2 - Naomi Bates - The Importance of Collaboration

16.15

16.45

Plenary Librarians of the Year - Theresa de Young (Western Cape and National), Nompumelelo Shongwe (Mpumalanga) and Patricia Gierke (KZN)

IASL Address - Irene Reid

17.00 17.30

Tea & Poster Presentations - PRAESA – Nali Bali

17.30 -18.30

Plenary Round Table Discussion with DBE Officials & Zwelinzima Vavi - to be chaired by Teboho Morajane ...

This round table panel discussion is to conclude in the Formulation of a Report to go to the Minister of Education DBE on the

‘Training, Development and Support of School & FET Based Librarians’

18.30 - late

Cocktail Party & Vrede en Lust Wine Tasting Author/Poet Book Launch Band – Nje will be playing

LIASA-SLYSIG 1ST BIENNIAL SCHOOL & FET COLLEGES LIBRARY CONFERENCE 15-16 2 JULY 2014@CLARENCE

PRIMARY SCHOOL

Day 2

Times Main hall Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6

8.00 -8.50

TEA & MUFFINS with the Exhibiters

Breakaway sessions

Secondary School libraries

Public Libraries & FET College Libraries

Foundation & Senior Primary School Libraries

Libraries & Technology

Training & Development of Librarians

Role of the Library & the Librarian

9.00 - 9.30

Session 3

Zonke Silwanyana Introducing Book Clubs in High/Senior Secondary Schools

Russell Chisango

Challenges for

Information Literacy

education at FET

Colleges

Pinkie Macheke and

Letta Machoga Managing and Maintaining a School Library in a Disadvantaged

Community

Naomi Bates Creating a PLN: Using

Twitter to Expand Your

Community

Trish Gierke RDA with a demo of the web-based RDA Toolkit – which is the “tool” by which we apply RDA to our cataloguing with a

Irene Reid

Librarian as Professional Developer & Leader

9.45- 10.15

Session 4 Dr Mary Reynolds Enhancing learning

through rigorous

inquiry: what ought

we to be doing?

Janet Condy Digital Storytelling

1 hour workshop including practice at applying the new rules to cataloguing e.g. a simple book…..and a DVD

Naomi Bates Digital Literacy a Crucial

Conversation

10.20 10.45

Tea , Coffee & Juice with Muffins

LIASA-SLYSIG 1ST BIENNIAL SCHOOL & FET COLLEGES LIBRARY CONFERENCE 15-16 2 JULY 2014@CLARENCE

PRIMARY SCHOOL

10.55 - 11.25 11.30- 12.00

Breakaway Session 5 Session 6

Dr Mary Reynolds 1 hour Workshop following on from paper in Session4

Marj Brown Kids Lit quiz & Pendulani as strategic Literacy Interventions

Naomi Bates It's Showtime! How to

create book trailers to

attract readers

Phuti MasenyaThe Role

of the School Library &

Librarian in Reading,

Teaching & Learning

12.10- 12.30

Networking and Chats - Meet in different venues according to provinces or interests - To be chaired by SLYSIG Executive Members

12.30-13.10

Packed Lunch to eat in the gardens , exhibition browsing, book sellers etc.

13.15.- 14.00

Session 7

Samuel Mojapelo The challenges faced by public high schools in Limpopo Province

Dr. Fombad & Veli

Jiyane

The role of school

libraries in realising

Millennium

Development Goals

(MDGs) by 2015 and

beyond in South

Africa: A literature

review

Lynne Worth ePlatforms & eBooks What are the available Options ?

Irene Reid Using digital reading interventions & strategies to Increase Motivation for Reading Shelfari/Goodreads/ Edmodo/Blogs/ Pinterest/

Naomi Bates

Publicizing and Branding: Making Digital Connections With The Community (library-based)

14.10 14.40

Dr Andrew Venter - Wildlands Conservation Trust Presentation

14.45-15.45

Closing Keynote Speaker – Naomi Bates : The Changing Role of Teacher librarians

15.55-16.00

Closing & announcement of Biennial Conference 2016 Venue & Date