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🌸📚 A BIG THANK YOU from Kids Alive! 💦💛

A heartfelt thank you to ALIA and all the wonderful libraries, playgroups, early learning centres, schools and swim schools who have embraced Spring Safe Storytime and shared it with their local communities!

Through stories, songs, dancing and fun activities, you’ve helped bring important water safety messages to life for young children and their families. 📖🎶

Every Storytime is an opportunity to build water safety awareness, inspire little learners and encourage families to make water safety part of everyday conversations.

💛 Together, we’re helping create a generation of water safety champions!

Thank you for being part of Spring Safe Storytime and helping us spread the Kids Alive message far and wide.

#SpringSafeStorytime #KidsAliveDoTheFive #WaterSafety #ALIA by @alianational

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📅 It's shaping up to be a busy few weeks for ALIA Regional and Special Interest Groups!

From library tours to panel discussions, op-shop walking tours to an awards information webinar, it's time to connect and catch up with colleagues across the sector.

Coming up:

💻 24 September - ALIA Digital Literacy: Beyond the Printed Page
🕊29 September: ALIA LARK: From Inquiry to Impact Symposium
🏥 8 October – ALIACT: Canberra Health Services Library & Multimedia Tour
👗10 October - ALIA Gold Coast: Sustainable Santa opshop walking tour
🎨 18 October – ALIA VIC: Judging a Book By Its Cover discussion panel
🏆 21 October – ALIA NSW Library Excellence Awards Webinar
🎞️ 28 October – Digitisation and Discoverability
💻 29 October – Empowering Communities Through Digital Literacy

👉 Explore all upcoming ALIA events and training: https://www.alia.org.au/events-and-training by @alianational

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🌸📚 Spring Safe Storytime is in full swing! 💦☀️

We’re so proud to celebrate our partnership with ALIA and see Spring Safe Storytime being delivered at more than 600 locations across Australia! 🇦🇺

We absolutely LOVE seeing the photos, videos and stories coming in from local events — children reading, singing, learning and having fun while discovering some very important water safety messages. 💙

By bringing water safety into Storytime, we can start these important conversations with children and families in a fun, engaging and memorable way.

🌸 Springtime is water safety time! 🌊

Keep sharing your Spring Safe Storytime moments with us — we love seeing what’s happening in communities right across the country!

#SpringSafeStorytime #KidsAliveDoTheFive #ALIA #WaterSafety #Storytime by @alianational

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How Does Your State or Territory Rank?🤔

Voting has opened for ABC Radio National's Top 100 Australian Book countdown, and early stats show the ACT leading the charge with the most amount of votes so far!

There's nothing quite like some healthy competition so to help promote the campaign and keep the votes climbing in all states and territories, we'd love libraries to:

📸 Send us a photo of any Top 100 displays you have in your library and Radio National will share them on their social media channels!

💌 Photos can be sent to media@alia.org.au

⁉ The 5-second prompt: Ask borrowers, “Have you voted in the Top 100 Australian Books yet?”

A quick mention at the loans desk can go a long way — after all, librarians are trusted voices when it comes to books. by @alianational

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📚💦 “This is a rhyming story!” 💦📚

We LOVE this little moment! 🥰

At the launch of Spring Safe Storytime at Chermside Library, ALIA President Lisa Bateman joined us to read a Kids Alive story — and one very clever little listener was quick to point out that it rhymes! 👏✨

What an amazing example of the literacy understanding children are developing from such a young age.

That’s exactly why we love Spring Safe Storytime. Stories are fun, memorable and powerful. They help build early literacy skills while giving us the perfect opportunity to introduce important water safety messages. 📖💧

Read. Rhyme. Learn. Stay safe. 💙

Because when water safety becomes part of the stories children hear, those messages can stick for life.

#KidsAliveDoTheFive #ALIA #Storytime #EarlyLiteracy #WaterSafety by @alianational

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🌸📚 Spring Safe Storytime has officially launched! 💦

What a wonderful morning at Chermside Library celebrating the launch of Spring Safe Storytime 2026!

Stories are such a powerful way to help young children learn, and by bringing water safety messages into storytime, we can help families build important safety habits from an early age.

A huge thank you to Chermside Library, our wonderful families and everyone who joined us to kick off Spring with stories, smiles and lifesaving water safety messages. 💛

📖 Stories stick. Water safety saves lives.

#SpringSafeStorytime #KidsAliveDoTheFive #WaterSafety #Storytime #ChermsideLibrary by @alianational

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📚 Melbourne book and film lovers – this is happening tomorrow, and it’s FREE!

To help kick off Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National's Top 100 Australian Books countdown, join Sarah L'Estrange, acclaimed director
Robert Connolly (The Dry, Force of Nature, Blueback) and author Toni Jordan (Addition, Fall Girl, Nine Days, Dinner with the Schnabels, Tenderfoot) live at ABC Studios in Southbank for 'From Page to Screen' - a discussion about film adaptations of Australian books.

Together, they’ll revisit some of Australia’s best-loved page-to-screen adaptations and explore what it takes to bring a great Australian story from the book to the screen.

📅 Tomorrow – Thursday 3 September
⏰ 1:00–2:00pm
📍 ABC Studios, Southbank, Melbourne
🎟️ FREE – bookings essential

Book your spot 👉 https://lnkd.in/gQ-ZiNzS by @alianational

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🎟️ Missed out on ALIA West’s The Value of Us: A Celebration of Collective Impact? You’re in luck!

While tickets to the main event have now closed, a small number of tickets have just been released for the Friday sessions only.

It’s your last chance to join ALIA West for a day of connection, conversation and celebration of the collective impact of our library and information community.

✨ Places are limited, so get in quick!

https://www.alia.org.au/EventDetail?EventKey=WEST0926B by @alianational

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📚💦 Spring Safe Storytime is coming soon — it’s about learning, connecting and keeping children safe.

Reading together helps build language, literacy, imagination and a lifelong love of books. It also gives us a powerful way to introduce important messages to young children in a fun and memorable way.

That’s why Spring Safe Storytime, with the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), brings the joy of reading together with essential water safety education.

Through stories, songs and shared conversations, children can begin learning about staying safe around pools, beaches and waterways — while celebrating all the wonderful benefits that come from reading together. 📖🌊

Read together. Learn together. Stay safe together.

#SpringSafeStorytime #ALIA #KidsAlive #WaterSafety #EarlyLiteracy by @alianational

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🧒 INVEST IN SCHOOLS! INVEST IN READING! 📚
🌿 Bibliotherapy in the School Library 🪑

Reading for pleasure has proven benefits for health and education outcomes.

Bibliotherapy in the School Library (Virtual) is a reflective, invitational approach to reading that supports wellbeing and connection. It helps you create the conditions where children and young people can experience reading in more open and meaningful ways.

This 7-week facilitated course (4 levels, ~6 hrs/week, 30 CPD hours) explores how stories can be offered in calm, open ways without pressure to perform or interpret. It is designed specifically for school library contexts.

This is the first time this course has been offered, so be at the forefront of the gentle reading wave.

📅 Mon 31 Aug – Fri 23 Oct 2026
💻 Virtual
https://www.alia.org.au/EventDetail?EventKey=BBS0826

Photos: Angela Mirfin – Gowrie Primary School Cosy reading retreat for children with colourful floor cushions, baskets of books and low benches on patterned rugs, set against a vibrant landscape mural on a brick wall and a small sign reading "The Reading Retreat." Photo: Angela Mirfin – Gowrie Primary School by @alianational

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📚🤖 DIGITAL LITERACY – MEET ABii: Rethinking Learning with AI in Libraries

Libraries have always been spaces for discovery and lifelong learning. Now they’re also becoming places where technology helps people learn in more engaging, inclusive, and personalised ways.

Join us for an online webinar introducing ABii Smart Robot Tutor, an AI-powered learning tool designed to support learners through interactive, supportive and tailored experiences, based on a real case study with Parramatta Public Libraries, helping address the challenge of 1 in 3 children scoring below the NAPLAN benchmark.

In this session, you’ll hear about:
• The changing role of libraries in the digital age
• How ABii and AI robotics can support learners
• Practical ideas for libraries, schools, and community programs to create more inclusive learning experiences

🎤 PRESENTER: Hugh Kingsley
Founder & Director of The Brainary, author of Archie the Robot and currently working with RMIT University on an educational game focused on cultural inclusion.

📅 Thursday 27 August 2026
🕡 6:30pm – 7:30pm (ACST)
💻 Online via Zoom (link sent the day prior)
✅ The webinar will be recorded and shared with attendees after the event.

📅 SAVE THE DATE & REGISTER: https://buff.ly/By1aqTc

#DigitalLiteracy #Libraries #EdTech #LearningInnovation #ArtificialIntelligance by @alianational

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Applications are open for two ALIA awards designed to support learning, research and innovation in the library and information sector.

🎓 Charlotte Henry Study Grant
An annual grant of up to $5,000 for an ALIA Member studying a Master's qualification in library and information science through an ALIA-accredited education provider - Closes 21 August

💡 Twila Ann Janssen Herr Research Award for Disability Services
A biennial award of up to $5,000 supporting an early career library and information professional to investigate and research opportunities to further develop Australian library services for people with disability - Closes 13 August

Find out more and apply - https://www.alia.org.au/Web/Web/Our-Members/Awards.aspx?hkey=cb6f5546-725f-45ca-9846-5a8dd3a3b8cb by @alianational

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