**NSW PUBLIC LIBRARIES LITERACY 
WORKING GROUP**

**NOVEMBER 2016 MEETING MINUTES**

**DATE:** 22nd November 2016
**VENUE:** State Library New South Wales

Meeting commenced at 2.10pm

**PRESENT:** 
  * Jacinta Craine, Sutherland – Chair
  * Wendy Ford –Northern Beaches – Acting Secretary
  * Oriana Acevedo – SLNSW representative
  * Jill Finch - Reading Writing Hotline
  * Vanessa Iles – Reading Writing Hotline
  * Abir El-Lahib, City of Sydney
  * Jacqueline Elstein, Mosman
  * Wendy Gindi, Canterbury
  * Carmel Martin – Liverpool
  * Liz McCutcheon – Gilgandra


**By teleconferencing:**
Rob Stewart, Singleton

**APOLOGIES:** 
Jann Debenham, Bankstown, Chris Jones, Great Lakes – Manager Representative, Kasia Malicka, Burwood, Mylee Joseph, SLNSW; Debbie Horgan, Mid Coast Libraries; Lee Burgoyne, Wollongong; Christianne Birket, Gunnedah; Adam Palmer, Central Coast



**1. Matters arising from previous Minutes** - Nil

**Minutes accepted:** Jacqueline Elstein, Mosman

**Minutes seconded:** Abir El-Lahib, City of Sydney
 

**2. Review of Literacy/ESL Selection days**
This review is pending due to Council amalgamations. The previous selection day was successful and another one to be planned for 2017

**3. Guest speaker:** Ms Vanessa Iles, Manager, Reading Writing Hotline and Jill Finch - Reading Writing Hotline

Please see attached information. 
Vanessa.iles@det.nsw.edu.au


**4. Libraries and Literacy Seminar**
Proposal to repeat the successful seminar on 8th September 2017 at the SLNSW. Oriana to look into booking suitable room.

**UPDATE:** 8th September the Metcalfe is NOT available
Another date is being investigated.

Please think about who you could suggest as guest speakers…
And/or what you could present about your own experiences with working in the adult literacy field. We will need to have most presenters organised by our February meeting.

**5. Core Adult Literacy Collection List** – review
This was re-distributed to all present. See attachment from Reading Writing Hotline for possible further inclusions


**6. Singleton Library’s Read Write and Spell tutor training** - 
Robert Stewart from Singleton Library spoke via teleconference regarding his success using Community volunteers. Singleton has great success with this program and Robert is happy to share any further information 


**7. Strategic Plan**
Objective 5: Information sharing –– hosting an adult literacy seminar, this was done in 2015 – hope to do this biannually – planning 2017 – see item 4.

**8. Manager’s Report**
Chris Jones: Not at the meeting due to the Switch Conference

**9. SLNSW Representative Report**

Development Grants to be announced late November
There is currently an acting SLNSW Manager. 
Building works to commence early next year on SLNSW


**Election of Office Bearers.**

JANN DEBENHAM accepted nomination as Secretary in her absence

JACINTA CRAINE accepted Chair nomination from the floor

Scheduled meeting for 2017 – still to be confirmed

  * 21st February Canterbury
  * 23rd May Customs House, Sydney
  * 22nd August Gordon
  * 28th November SLNSW

Meeting ended at 4.00pm
**MINUTES:** Wendy Ford

**NEXT MEETING:** Tuesday 21st February Canterbury 2-4pm