Following up on yesterday’s ASLA Tas meeting held at Hutchins Junior School – Stephens library. Kate Reid, teacher librarian, discussed her recent renovations to this library. 

Here are the links referred to and other information of interest.

The work of Kevin Hennah was discussed and links to school libraries following his principles  are referred to below:

 Before and after shots from  a library after a Kevin Hennah workshop:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgsclibrary/

A budget renovation  following Kevin Hennah principles.

Shoestring makeovers

Shoestrings vs pursestrings

The book Rethink: inspiring school library spaces edited by Dr Susan La Marca, with a
special section by marketing and retail consultant, Kevin Hennah - which was circulated during the meeting, can be ordered using this form:

http://www.slav.schools.net.au/downloads/06publications/retkord.pdf

Kevin Hennah  will be presenting 2 workshops in Hobart -July 7-8th : see website for details and registration forms:

 www.kevinhennah.com.au

Lyndall Innes the Raeco specialist from Corporate Express was present to discuss library furniture and layout ideas. She may be contacted at:

lyndall.innes@ce.com.au

Did I miss anything?

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Following a request from the Libraries 2L conference to create a discussion list for non-teaching staff in Tasmanian School Libraries I have created that list.

We have over 80 members and there is now a constant stream of chatter about library matters ranging from “book covering materials” to “how to cope when the library software fails?”

Wish to join them ? Just reply to this post and I’ll get back to you.