Speaker across two continents, for schools, academia and national conferences.
From a diocesan in-service in Texas to a postgraduate showcase in Scotland, the rooms change and the audiences change, but the argument does not: that a library is not a quiet room where books are kept but the place a school does its thinking, and that nobody has ever come to love a thing they were told about before they were allowed to meet it.
Speaking
Bringing Books to Life: The Everything-Arium
Twelve immersive exhibitions built inside a working school library, and what it takes to turn a blacked-out classroom into a planetarium, an ocean, a forest and the night.
Session · National conference
The best library training, job specific, in the last ten years.Attendee
The Declaration of Independence as Myth
Drawn from the doctoral thesis, delivered at the SGSAH Showcase: the founding document read not as law but as cosmogony, and what that reading opens up.
Session · Academic
From Underutilised to Indispensable
Building award-winning Catholic school libraries. What changes when the library stops being a room on the timetable and starts being the reason people come into the building.
Session · Professional development
Best professional development meeting I've been to since becoming a library manager.Attendee
The Catholic School Library as the Community Hub
Parents, grandparents and teachers as the library's constituency, not its visitors, and the programming that brings them through the door and keeps them coming back.
Session · Professional development
Library Programming to Real Skills and Real Careers
An in-house publishing press run by students and led by the library. Students interview for roles as publishers, editors, designers and publicists, and the books they make carry ISBNs and sit in the permanent collection.
Session · Professional development
Without a doubt the best speaker I've had at an inservice.Attendee
We could learn from her for years.Attendee
Bring me to your school, diocese or conference.
In-service days, keynotes, conference sessions and staff training. In person across Texas and the UK, and online anywhere.
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