ASLA National Journal - EditorialRachel Hoare

 

ACCESS, Vol. 23, issue 4, 2009, p.1.

Welcome to the November issue of Access, where we capture some of the highlights of the successful ASLA XXI Biennial Conference, held here in beautiful Perth, Western Australia. Although I am obviously a teeny-weeny bit partial, I thought WASLA organised an outstanding conference, which, from all accounts, was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone who attended. I have introduced a guest author section in Access, starting with Mark Greenwood’s fascinating description of his research process and how he digs deep to uncover the truth behind the legend. Mark joined Estelle Blackburn and Kate McCaffrey in a captivating guest author panel discussion at the conference. Thank you very much to Mark for his generous support of Access. Look out for more guest contributions in future issues of Access.

Pru Mitchell and Sue Spence have written an informative commentary entitled Inquiry into Guided Inquiry, with contributions from Dr Ross Todd. We also have some valuable professional development with Anne Weaver’s instructive article, Good vibrations — with Netvibes: A professional learning powerhouse for staff, a research powerhouse for everyone. Our peer-reviewed article reports on a research project examining the effectiveness of two controlled search vocabularies for school library catalogue users, entitled A comparison of ScOT and SCISSH as subject retrieval aids in school library catalogues, written by Philip Hider and Ashley Freeman.

We have news from the Capricornia region in Queensland, detailing how three schools have benefited from the Building the Education Revolution (BER) money. I would like to invite schools in other states and territories to let us know about your BER library building projects or improvements so that we can cover these stories in issues throughout 2010. Please send them in and don’t forget your photos as well.

I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Happy reading!

Rachel Hoare , Editor

Last updated 20 November 2009