Advocacy

Topic: promoting TLs and school libraries - video volunteers wanted Margie Wallin [mwallin@scu.edu.au] wrote recently to our group: Hi everyone,

As one strategy in encouraging our SCU student teachers to visit you and your libraries while they are on their placements, I'm hoping to record a series of short (very short) videoclips. The idea is to have real teacher librarians (and any interested principals) talking about the value of school libraries and teacher librarians to beginning teachers. We have funding to record 6 X 5min (maximum) videoclips, and the draft proposal document is attached.

I would love to hear from anyone who may be interested in being involved - the more the merrier!!! If you're not comfortable with the thought of an individual interview being recorded, I think a 'group discussion' would be a fun way of sharing your professionalism and passion for libraries!

To try and keep costs down, we'd like to do the actual videorecording here in Coffs (at one primary and one secondary school library), but everyone would be welcome to participate. Ideally, it would be great to do the recording sometime in November, so that the editing can be done before Christmas.

We'll be uploading the clips onto youtube, and will of course acknowledge you and your school in the credits of the video.

Judy / Surinder, I'd also love to get you both on a clip, talking about the value of public/council libraries for student teachers too!

I'm happy to answer any questions about the project. My contact details are below. I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon!

Regards, Margie