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