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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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7 Challenges for school libraries – revisited

In 2015, Softlink published our first ‘feature’ document, sharing written comments and feedback provided by respondents to that year’s Australian 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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School libraries share ideas for school-wide collaboration

How have school library staff successfully initiated, encouraged, and achieved greater collaboration between their library and broader school community?

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School libraries share innovative ideas

In the 2016 Australian and New Zealand School Library Survey respondents were encouraged to share innovative practices they had implemented in their school library. While we have produced several global features and completed two more survey’s since 2016, many of the ideas shared in the feature document are still very relevant, so we’re bringing it back!

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