C O N F E R E N C E P R O G R A M M E

“We do not define ourselves by the materials we provide, but by what we do with and around our materials

to make our communities better places.”

Athina Mavromataki Dec. 2012

HOSTED BY THE SCHOOL LIBRARY AND YOUTH SERVICE INTEREST GROUP

2nd BIENNIAL SLYSIG CONFERENCE @ UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE, BLOEMFONTEIN

28-29 JUNE 2016

Our theme is about the people in the Library.

It’s about lives connecting, creating & transforming, changing...

It’s about communities connecting, creating &

changing...

It’s about cities connecting, creating & changing...

It’s about countries connecting, creating &

changing...

It’s about continents connecting, creating & changing...

It’s about a global shift...

It’s about a Literate world

Welcome

It is that time of the year when School Library & Information Services (SLIS) practitioners (Teacher Librarians) come together to celebrate this profession.

The 1st biennial SLYSIG conference was held in Durban in 2014.

Bloemfontein is our destination in 2016. One of the reasons for a SLIS conference is to capture the real issues related to this sector.

Our conference comes at a time when school libraries have been declared an apex priority, and one of the non-negotiables by Minister Angie Motshega.

The role of SLYSIG is to make a contribution in the development of this

profession in line with section 22 of the constitution... Freedom of trade, occupation and profession. Section 1 of the Constitution stipulates: “The Republic of South Africa in One, sovereign democratic state...”.

This is the reason we’re looking forward to being included in dialogue around

uniform standards in this sector. We need one countrywide SLIS policy, guidelines, content, monitoring &

supporting tool and one countrywide sector name. We celebrate that South Africa, through SLYSIG, has joined the world in

embracing the IFLA/School Library Guidelines. Working together with the DBE we should be planning strategically to

implement them.

Delegates, you are all warmly welcomed to this conference. We wish you fruitful deliberations, as you “Connect, Create and Transform”

yourselves - and then on your return home - your libraries, your students and your communities.

Teboho Morajane

SLYSIG National Chairperson (2014-2016)

ORDER OF THE PROGRAMME

MONDAY 27 JUNE 2016

TIME VENUE EVENT PRESENTER PRESENTATION TITLE

14:00 – 16:00 Education Building (EDU Building) FOYER

UFS Library Tour Mrs. Carmen Nel University of the Free State Library Tour

16:00 – 18:00 Kovsie Inn SLYSIG Executive Dinner

LIASA-SLYSIG UFS Final planning wrap-up and planning of pr-econference (October)

TUESDAY 28 JUNE 2016

07:30 – 08:45 EDU Building FOYER

REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS

08:45 – 09:15

EDU Building Auditorium

Welcome

Teboho Morajane Chair of LIASA-SLYSIG - SLYSIG Welcome Segametsi Molawa President of LIASA - LIASA Welcome Jerry Mathema IASL Director Region One: Africa Sub Saharan - Intro IASL

09:15 – 10:00 Official opening

Prof. Jansen Vice -Chancellor & Rector of UFS

10:00 – 10:15 Music item

Nozala Intermediate School Gumboot dancers

10:15 - 10:30 Housekeeping

Lianda Coetzer - LIASA SLYSIG Free State Representative

Social Media

Irene Reid - LIASA SLYSIG National PRO Twitter #connectcreatetransform

10:30 – 11:00

MORNING TEA - Please take some time to browse the exhibitor displays

11:00 – 12:00

EDU Building Auditorium

Keynote

John Iona - Are Librarians Restricting reading? Setting Reading Free...

12:00- 13:00

EDU Building Auditorium

Plenary

Ina Smith & Annamarie Goosen - From Digital Natives to digital citizens: teaching digital citizenship as part of the school curriculum

13:00 – 14:00

LUNCH - Please take some time to browse the exhibitor displays

TUESDAY 28 JUNE 2016 (continued)

BREAKAWAY SESSION 1 14:15 – 15:00 Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Computer Lab

Papers

Ina Smith & Annamarie Goosen From tech savvy to master technology school librarian

Irene Reid - Book Discussion & Brain Fun & Games Know your Brain... Blame your Brain...by Nicola Morgan

Molebogeng Maake Angels of Tomorrow (SAL) “It takes a village to raise a child”

Kirston Hoets Overdrive – the only eBook Platform for Schools

PANEL DISCUSSION in the EDU Building Auditorium

15:15 – 16:15

“School libraries and school librarians - where do we stand?

Chair: Righardt Le Roux Panelists: John Iona, Theresa De Young, Segametisi Molawa, Lianda Coetzer, Anna Brown, Kulula Manona, Annamarie Goosen, Teboho Morajane

16:15 – 16:30

AFTERNOON TEA - Please take some time to browse the exhibitor displays

BREAKAWAY SESSION 2 16:45 – 17:45 Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Computer Lab

Workshops

Ina Smith & Annamarie Goosen Online publishing for school Librarians

Righardt le Roux A Nalíbali Story Telling Workshop Learn to hold your listeners spell bound

Irene Reid Terrific Trainees – learning how to set up a student library helper programme.

John Iona Creating READ posters - This work-shop will be a practical session in which we look at ways to create posters to promote reading, and then create our own.

18:00 – 22:30 MAYORAL DINNER

Dinner will be served at Harmony Hostel on the campus of the University of the Free state On arrival, come and enjoy a welcoming Sherry on arrival to the sounds of the Oranje Girls High Marimba band. Please be seated by 18:30 for the arrival The Mayor, Cllr. Thabo Manyoni and the start of the Mayoral programme. Enjoy your dinner with music by ABC Band ZA

WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE 2016

08.00 - 8:30 EDU Building FOYER REGISTRATION & REFRESHMENTS

BREAKAWAY SESSION 3 08:30 – 09:30 Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Computer lab

Lianda Coetzer Teaching Information Literacy: a gaming approach

Dorothy Dyer Fundza – Reading Revolution – Using Books & Cell phones

Craig Blewett Chair - Irene Reid The @ctivated Library Using technology to create not consume! Remote Presentation With live Q & A session

Marj Brown Promoting Literacy and Reading with Phendulani & Kids Lit Quiz – The Power of Competition

John Iona Supporting curriculum using online project pages – Looking at how to create online pages to support research topics using freely available web-tools, and creating our own.

09:30- 10:00

MORNING TEA - Please take some time to browse the exhibitor displays

BREAKAWAY SESSION 4 10:00 – 10:50 Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Computer lab

Papers & Workshops

Brigitte Lenong Reading is Interactive: A case study of Central University of Technology Reading Club

Isobel Sobey “Connecting with children, create a reading culture in your school from the Library outwards.”

Righardt le Roux A Nalíbali Story Telling Workshop Learn to hold your listeners spell bound...

Andrew Malotle (National Library of South Africa) Marketing your Library to make it the place to be found in!

Irene Reid Practical online session “Using Edmodo as a Virtual Library Classroom”

PLENARY SESSIONS in the Education Building Auditorium

11:00 – 12:00 John Iona Information Literacy and the extended project

12:00 – 13:00 Ebrahim Adams Gamification in the library – Remote presentation with live Skype Q & A Chair – Irene Reid

13:00 – 14:00

LUNCH - Please take some time to browse the exhibitor displays

COLLOQUIUM, PLENARY AND CLOSING in the Education Building Auditorium

14:00 – 14:45 Colloquium Tad Hasunuma & Lynette Jacobs et. al. -Mobile Libraries: Carrying books to rural schools in the Free State

14:45 – 15:45 PLENARY Michelle Lissoos - Makerspaces and the 21st century school library

16:00 – 16:30 CLOSING Mrs Betsy Eister - UFS Director of the LIS UFS

We would like to thank

VAN SCHAIK BOOKSTORE and

WORLD WIDE INFORMATION SERVICES (WWIS)

for donating

LANYARDS, PENS, NOTEPADS CAR DISC HOLDERS,RULERS

http://iaslonline.org

IASL Mission & Objectives

Mission

Provide an international forum for people interested in promoting

effective school library programs as viable instruments in the educational process. IASL also provides guidance and advice for the

development of school library programs and the school library profession. IASL works in cooperation with other professional

associations and agencies.

Objectives

To advocate the development of school libraries in all countries;

To encourage the integration of school library programs into the instruction and curriculum of the school;

To promote the professional preparation and continuing education of school library personnel;

To foster a sense of community among school librarians in all parts of the world;

To foster and extend relationships between school librarians

and other professions in connection with children and youth;

To foster research in the field of school librarianship and the integration of its findings with pertinent knowledge from related fields;

To promote the publication and dissemination of information about successful advocacy and program initiatives in school librarianship;

To share information about programs and materials for children and youth throughout the international community

To initiate and coordinate activities, conferences and other projects in the field of school librarianship and information services

ABOUT LIASA

The Library & Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)is a professional organization, uniting and representing all institutions

and people working in libraries and information services in South Africa.

It provides dynamic leadership in transforming, developing and sustaining library and information services for all people

in South Africa. Its members are engaged in library and information services in the private sector, corporate sector, academic & tertiary sectors and

government services, viz. public & school library services.

ABOUT SLYSIG

The School Library and Youth Services Interest Group (SLYSIG)

as part of the LIASA is responsible for monitoring the global developments in school librarianship and to

engage with the national dialogue on school libraries.

SLYSIG believes that a direct and concerted effort to provide every school and every community with a library and a librarian

will facilitate a positive literacy change in our schools, communities and our society, resulting in building a lifelong reading and learning

culture amongst all peoples of our nation.

At SLYSIG we feel that school and youth services librarians and teachers need to connect, create and transform themselves and their

spaces.

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

School Libraries and Resource Centers Section IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto

The School Library in Teaching and Learning for All

The school library provides information and ideas that are fundamental to functioning successfully in today's information and knowledge-based society.

The school library equips students with life-long learning skills and develops the imagination, enabling them to live as responsible citizens.

The Mission of the School Library

The school library offers learning services, books and resources that enable all members of the school community to become critical thinkers and effective users of information in all formats and media. School Libraries link to the wider library and information network in accord with the principles in the UNESCO Public Library Manifesto.

The library staff support the use of books and other information sources, ranging from the fictional to the documentary, from print to electronic, both on-site and remote. The materials complement and enrich textbooks, teaching materials and methodologies.

It has been demonstrated that, when librarians and teachers work together, students achieve higher levels of literacy, reading, learning, problem-solving and information and communication technology skills.

School library services must be provided equally to all members of the school community, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, nationality, language, professional or social status. Specific services and materials must be provided for those who are unable to use mainstream library services and materials.

Access to services and collections should be based on the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms, and should not be subject to any form of ideological, political or religious censorship, or to commercial pressures.

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