The document announces details of the SLAQ/IASL Conference to be held on September 30, 2010 in Brisbane, Australia, focusing on the theme of "Diversity Challenge Resilience: School Libraries in Action." The conference will incorporate the 12th Biennial School Library Association of Queensland conference and the 39th International Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference. Contact information is provided for Silent Dawson, a professor at the University of Wollongong, for those seeking additional information about the conference.

1. Erica McWilliam
SLAQ/IASL Conference, Convention Centre, 30 September, 2010.
Diversity Challenge Resilience: School Libraries in Action - The 12th Biennial School Library Association of
Queensland, the 39th International Association of School Librarianship Annual Conference
incorporating the 14th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship,
Brisbane, QLD Australia, 27 September – 1 October 2010.

2. Email: sdawson@uow.edu.au

3. From To
Silent singular reader Reading as a team sport
Reading for enlightenment Reading for belonging
Books Vooks
Page-turning Key-tapping
In-depth reading Power browsing
Linear texts Linked fragments
Single focus technologies Interruption technologies
Oasis of bookish tranquility Space of digital interactivity

5. Training, Sorting
Credentialling

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11. a place to congregate, talk, write, read,
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13. •provider of pleasant and engaging spaces of
interaction and self-managed learning
•arbiter of the affairs of the neighbourhood
•broker of social relationships
•assembler of newspapers and other learning materials
•source of gossip
•alert to ‘special needs’ of clients
•business manager

14. Usefully ignorant
Seriously playful (A)
Epistemologically agile
Team orientation
Ideas translator &broker
Technologically savvy

15. Complex
Complexity
Simple
Short-term Time Long-term

16. Complexity
Service provider Procedures manager
• Routines and habits •Staff supervision
•Template applications •Program leadership
•Simple rules and •Higher credential
procedures •Promotion
•Repetition, memorisation •Wider responsibilities
•Limited appraisal •Annual appraisal
Time

17. Crisis leader/manager Innovative Leader
All other quadrants +: •Creative generative thinker
•Good judgment •Lead learner
•Quick action •Ruthlessly curious
•Sound monitoring •Calculated risk-taker
•Capacity to adapt •Active networker
complexity
•Strategic alliances •Proactive team member
•Creative broker
Service provider Procedures manager
• Routines and habits •Staff supervision
•Template applications •Program leadership
•Simple rules and •Higher credential
procedures •Promotion
•Repetition, memorisation •Wider responsibilities
•Limited appraisal •Annual appraisal
Time

18. •demands knowledge of risk
•produces new risks for the
organisation
•hyper-rational and deeply pragmatic
logic
•‘self-scrutinising’ audit mechanisms
•new organisational arrangements for
monitoring performance Benchmarking activity

19. •intimate knowledge of the client-as-
portfolio;
•more informed about, more focused
on, and more likely to contribute to,
on-line information flow and the
virtual information storage systems;
•more adept at finding and using
organisational systems;
•more likely to invest professional
self-development.
An active enterprising
human resource

20. •all service providers are to
engage in routine diagnosis,
classification, and treatment
decision-making;
•demands clarification of roles
and responsibilities, attention to
progression rates, timely
response rates for internal and
external review and evaluation
etc;
•a new visibility for quality “He’ll be ok – he’s just seen his
claims. key performance indicators...”

21. •skills and dispositions that apply to new
ecologies for learning
•can be informed by from ‘lifelong
learning’ ecologies from the past
•coffee-house proprietors skills can be
adapted as part of the repertoire of skills
•generic’ risk management is often in
tension with cultural shifts in learning
•professional work as push-and-pull
between compliance and risk-taking.

22. Stupid optimist seeks the easy life