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SLANZA'S Vision
SLANZA aims to strengthen and promote the role of school libraries, to enable all school communities to become information literate.

SLANZA Awards
Apply for an award, or nominate a colleague whom you think meets the criteria of the SLANZA Awards. Don't be guilty of the tall poppy syndrome - celebrate success and achievement in our school library community. Applications or nominations are now due by the 1st December 2008.

A new award was added last year for Library Assistants.

Study Grants
SLANZA are offering study grants again this year. Applications have closed for study grants for study in 2009 .
Click here to see who the lucky recipients were of a SLANZA Study grant for 2007.

Lobbying your Members of Parliament or Education Spokespeople

If you are keen to lobby for school libraries and staffing, here are some key points to raise with your MPs and Education Spokespeople:

Will your Party make it mandatory for schools to operate a functional library?

Will your Party ensure school libraries are staffed by suitably qualified library staff?

Will your Party support Central Funding for Library staff and remunerations that reflect librarians' qualifications, experience and contribution to learning? There is already a working party through NZEI looking at this issue for support staff in schools.

Professional Registration.

At the recent AGM held at the 2007 Conference SLANZA members voted to affiliate to the Professional Registration Scheme administered by the LIANZA Registration Board. To find out more about the scheme and applying for Professional Registration go to: http://lianza.org.nz/registration/ or to view a powerpoint prepared for school librarians interested in Professional Registration Click here

The SLANZA Conference 2009: Turning Heads will be held in Christchurch at Rangi Ruru Girls' School 28/29/30 September 2009. Put it in your diaries now.

October is International School Library Month

The theme is Literacy and Learning at Your School Library
For further information please see the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) website:

http://www.iasl-online.org/events/islm/

Join SLANZA
Download the membership form, fill out and send to SLANZA. The address is on the form.

Slanza Brochure
For information about SLANZA download the SLANZA Brochure.

Schoollib listserv
Find out how to subscribe to the schoollib listserv.

Job descriptions
Examples of job descriptions for the library team and a flowchart of the job description process.

Page updated 03/11/08