Western Australian School Library Association

Western Australian School Library Association MINUTES Wednesday 22 April 2015, Suite 12/643 Newcastle Street, Leederville WA ATTENDANCE: Barbara C, Val, Jeff, Kate, Sarah, Natasha, Hanneke, Alison, Lisa, Phyllis, Wendy (Skype), Barb L APOLOGIES: Rebecca Open: 5.50pm No Item Action Acceptance of the minutes from the previous meeting: Moved Kate, seconded Jeff Business arising:

1 Makerspacers PD – 31 March 2015  Congratulations to Natasha for a great Professional Learning session.  Letters of thanks sent to presenters 2 Birds of a Feather PD – 23 May 2015 NG  2 responses for speakers  Larraine Reason –Visible Thinking  Cheryl Lopez Yidarra CPS – African Library  Claudia – SMARTS programme  After brainstorming:  Ideas session,  Orientation year7 – Jeff,  Twitter – social media – Sarah  Jo Pengelly  ½ hour morning tea  11-00 /11-45 & 11-50 /12-35 -2 Practical workshops Makerspaces extension – Jennifer Lightfoot  Barbara C doing a communication workshop to other attendees  12.35/1.00pm wrap up. Lisa – WASLA Conference, Q&A session Charlene Plunkett, 10minute pairing session instead of reflection feedback sheets.

3 State WASLA SLC – Term 3, 8 August 2015 LC  Lisa – State Conference is on track  Programme nearly ready  Mike has done the advertising flyer  Val has nearly finished the registration form & will send to Kate to be created into the interactive form  AV Media – sponsor –at conference  Scholarship interactive form ready to go.  Hanneke asked about past scholarship winners Jeff to send list (Val will also have names, from chqs drawn).

Reports:

1 President – BC BC PD in Bunbury – 16th June 2015. Judy Clayton going as well. Barbara will send through the agenda Val & Barbara met with Sue Ellery MLC. They spoke about newsletter to parents campaign, New Federal funding for education, targeting particular election areas, setting up a phone tree, keeping in touch with Advocacy information. First time school cuts have directly affected WA Asked is the Union coming to conference –session? VB has contacted the Union and they have said yes. Add Advocacy to next meeting agenda 2 Vice President – JH JH  Huge thanks to Kate for work done and about to be done  Barbara flagged Speaker for AGM - TBA  PTCWA Award -TBA

3 Treasurer report – VB VB/NG  Balance as of 31/3/2015 - $26,193.38  Susan La Marca never banked cheque. Treasurer has cancelled – no fees  Motion - Pay Workers Compensation – $368.50 o Moved - Val, seconded Barbara: accepted  Motion - That Phyllis is renumerated for March as this was changeover to EO o Moved - Val, seconded – Lisa; accepted  Treasurer will pay ongoing accounts without having to bring them to a committee meeting

4 Secretary – correspondence  Journal SLANSW  New South Wales people would like to share journals (Barbara)  SLAQ have changed their name to QSLA (Queensland School Library Association)  All templates of new documents to go to Rebecca for record keeping (Barbara) 5 Website Manager – KF KL  Website re-booted and cleaned out.  WASLANET membership list to be cleaned out.  Motion - to have only educational, relevant government and personal email addresses that can be verified as belonging to library practitioners. o Moved Kate, seconded Barbara C; accepted  Meeting with Kate, Barbara, Val &Phyllis to go through WASLANET.  Add to Advocacy – 3 pages – suggestions – Information research article, Media, In the News – with links to change weekly, Innovative Libraries.  Sarah and Kate to work together  Kate to send emails to accounts that have been suspended.

6 Executive Officer – BL BL  Providing current membership list to Kate when required  2014 Members – 197  2015 Members – 163 as of 22/4/15  Common Seal has been purchased  Posted 7 thankyou letters for Makerspaces PL. Sent copies to Rebecca

Reports moved by Natasha, seconded by Alison, all accepted. Business:

1 IC3 – Issue 1 2015 NG  Plenty of information for IC3 magazine  Lisa to proof read  Printer to send to EO  Next meeting – talk about copy for IC3, author launches? Barbara’s students? Alia meeting

2 PTCWA Awards night already discussed 3 ALIA meeting Canberra BC  ALIA is the accredited body for all Teacher Librarian courses.  The proposal is that we affiliate with them, in some form.  This is to be discussed at the August teleconference.  There could be 6 people from ASLA at the meeting  The purpose is for a group of associations to move forward and work with ALIA  Barbara spoke about the reason for the meeting. Phyllis & Barbara leave on 1st May.  The hope is to come back with a strategy for WASLA to go forward with ALIA 4 Advocacy BC  Already discussed

5 Meeting with Sue Ellery BC  Already discussed

6 Research and IL award BC/RM  Carried over to next meeting.

7  Proposal: that each meeting start with Welcome to Country. (To be minuted) BC  Moved Barbara C, seconded Barb L; accepted 8  Kate spoke about a PL session run by Brad Tyrell – fifteen databases & eBook KF subscriptions – Friday 29th May

Close – 7.35pm

Next committee meeting – Wednesday, 13 May 2015, at Paioff Partners - Suite 12/643 Newcastle Street, Leederville WA

Next conference committee meeting – Wednesday April 29 2015 - @ Val’s.