Softlink Supports School Librarians with Excellence Award

School Librarianship (IASL), Conference being held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre on the 27 September – 1 October 2010.

This conference is the SLAQ Biennial Conference and the 39th IASL Annual Conference incorporating the 14th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship.

A very special event taking place at the conference on Tuesday, 28 September, at 11:00am, is the presentation of the IASL/Softlink Excellence Award. Softlink has been sponsoring this award since it was established in 2004. The IASL/Softlink Excellence Award recognizes the significant contributions to school librarianship by school library specialists, educators, and/or researchers. Selection of the recipient(s) is based upon peer nomination. Softlink would like to wish all nominated the best of luck.

“Softlink is extremely proud to be given this opportunity to recognize the contribution that libraries and librarians make to learning and literacy in schools on a global scale,” Mr. Kim Duffy CEO of Softlink said.

Past winners:
2009 – No winner
2008- Madhu Bhargava, Dean of Libraries, G.D. Goenka World School in India

2007- Margaret Muthiga of Kilimo Primary School in Kenya

2006 - Jennie Bales, Senior Education Officer, ICT Professional Learning, School Education Division, Department of Education Tasmania, Ravenswood, Australia

2005- Mackay West State School and Mackay City Council Library Service: Margaret Spillman, Lorraine Todd & Clair Grandcourt

2004- The Australian University of Queensland Library's UQL Cyberschool

The award ceremony is just one event organized for the SLAQ/IASL Conference. The theme this year is: Diversity Challenge Resilience, with the conference promising to explore developing curriculum, delivering excellence through standards, supporting the digital education agenda and building literate communities through reading, writing, books, art and literature.

The Softlink Sales Team from across Australia and New Zealand will be available to discuss the latest version of Oliver, at Booths 15 and 16 of the SLAQ/IASL conference.

Registrations close for this international SLAQ/IASL Conference on the 12 September, 2010.

For more information on the conference and how to register visit: http://www.slaq.org.au/events/2010/index.htm

For More information on the IASL/Softlink Excellence award visit: http://www.iasl-online.org/awards/softlink4.html

For more information on Softlink visit: www.softlinkint.com