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Far South Coast Teacher Librarian meeting Wednesday 4th March 2015 Held at Bega Valley Shire library

Start time: 1.45pm Present: Jane Gordon, Gaye Allison, Michelle Booth, Leonie Price, John Eastlake, Merryl Whitby, Karen Tarpey, Jan Midena, Danielle McGrath (Tathra PS) and Anne Moore. Apologies: Francine Dessaix Agenda items: Jan has instigated a PRL program that will give Teacher Librarians accreditation for attending these meetings. Teachers need to register today! Karen has offered to take this upon herself to write a course, program or activity.

General discussion: Questions asked by Danielle –
 * 1) Book covering – discussion around covering soft covers with contact as opposed to plastic for hard back. Some plastic will smudge barcodes. Some schools cover all with plastic others half and half or all contact. Use of volunteers to cover including “community seniors” (non parents of the school)
 * 2) Overdue books – how long do you leave them on the system? Most send out “reminders” as soon as book is 1 week overdue with the child. Some do weekly reminders again if they haven’t brought back the book. Some change the status of the child’s record to allow one book to be borrowed but left at school. Some send letters home to parents. They can replace the missing book with any other book. At Bega High when the student leaves they have to “sign out” and any books not returned or replaced they are not given the appropriate certificate of completion. After a period you make the book missing and after 2 stocktakes and it has reappeared then you remove from the system.
 * 3) Role of the Library Assistant – is to assist the Librarian! It is quite acceptable to give them a list of duties to be done with priorities not time frames.
 * 4) Collection development - choosing books for inclusion. Some have Australian Standing orders only. Any “rich text books” bought for English should come out of that budget and not Library. By having a Book Fair at your school you get a percent from the Book supplier (Booktique, Candelo Books etc) to purchase books. Booko is a good site to have a look at and compare prices and where available. Magpies and Good reading magazines are useful tools to use for selection of books.
 * 5) Digital resources – suggested students join the Bega Valley Shire library and then download Overdrive to have access to free eBook’s and eaudiobooks.

Jan mentioned that her position is now opened for expression of interest for the rest of the year as she is taking long service and then retiring. 4 days per week with half RFF. Agenda for next meeting to be held on Wednesday 27th May at Bega High School:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Copyright
 * 2) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Nominated books for CBA Book of the Year.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Meeting closed 3.15pm