Book Week Forum 2020

Date 15 September
Venue online
Committee: Elizabeth Skorulis (Kiama), Joanne Potter (Ku-ring-gai), Michelle Plant (Woollahra), Sarah Jane Steer (Woollahra), Michelle Cairns (Ku-ring-gai), Sharon Fogarty (Port Stephens), Karina Vitalone (Liverpool), Judy Hannah (Canada Bay), Vivian.Kosseifi (Canada Bay), Samantha Butler (Sutherland)

Zart publish a book of activities based on the Book Week theme, Early Childhood and Picture Books. Activities are designed for individual works, as well as for class, libraries and whole school displays. https://www.zartart.com.au/
Ipswich District Teacher Librarians Network produces a book of ideas and activities based on the Book Week theme and Children's Book Council for Australia shortlisted titles. https://idtl.net.au/book-week.php and also has links on their website for ideas.

Once you have decided on the books your library will be featuring for Book Week, check who published them. If you need a sample permission request letter see the template, and email a letter to them on your library’s letterhead. In the letter, list the books by that publisher that you will be using, also list the activities you will be doing as part of your Book Week promotion. Do this ASAP! Some publishers will take 6 weeks or more to respond.
There is one exception – Book Covers! Photocopying of covers is covered by the 2016 agreement between ALIA and the Australian Publishers Association and is still place see https://www.alia.org.au/copyright-and-book-covers and the Australian Copyright Council fact sheet “Educational Institutions & Libraries: Using Book Covers’ https://www.copyright.org.au/ACC_Prod/ACC/Information_Sheets/Educational_Institutions___Libraries__Using_Book_Covers.aspx

Shortlist ideas