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Madison's Library
@madisonslibrary.bsky.social
Passionate about school libraries.
Teacher Librarian, Professional Reader
Book reviews, school librarian resources and professional learning at madisonslibrary.com
Incredible presentation from Karen Eyre on how she advocates for her school library and position through the programming, events, marketing and connections she builds.
An inspiring session with lots of practical ideas and encouragement.
#SchoolLibraries #FutureLibrariesConference
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Helpful sessions at the @qldsla Future Libraries Conference from SCIS, Reading Australia and SLQ with updates and resources to use in our space and to share with our departments and teachers.

#SchoolLibraries #FutureLibrariesConference
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Massive congratulations to Kelly Dunham, the incredibly deserving winner of the @qldsla School Leader of the Year award and to Assunta Austin and Lizzy Dixon, dual recipients of the @qldsla Teacher Librarian of the year award.

#FutureLibrariesConference #SchoolLibraries #ProfessionalLearning
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Andy Griffiths kicking off the @qldsla Future Libraries Conference with a funny (of course, would you expect anything else), but also nostalgic and provoking keynote.

#FutureLibrariesConference #SchoolLibraries #ProfessionalLearning
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Excited to be at the @qldsla Future Libraries Conference.
Looking forward to a full day of learning and connecting and catching up with the amazing school library profession of Queensland, near and far.

#FutureLibrariesConference #SchoolLibraries #ProfessionalLearning
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Need some extra bookmarks for your Book Week celebrations? Grab the download here madisonslibrary.com/2025/07/02/b...

#BookWeek2025 #BookWeek #SchoolLibraries #BookAnAdventure
July 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Had the most wonderful time at the ASLA Conference in Geelong. Connecting, sharing and learning. Follow along for key takeaways, ideas and moments. #SchoolLibraries #ProfessionalLearning #ASLAConference2025
May 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It was time for a change. Thanks to the incredible team, today we made some changes in the makerspace, moving the drone cage into a new position, moving the esports computers, moving prototyping material shelving. I love how it looks and feels!!

#SchoolLibraries #Makerspace #Change #LibraryLife
May 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Back to work for the start of Term 2. Lovely to be greeted with a lovely stack of new books - thank you #AmazingLibraryTech.

#BackToWork #SchoolLibraries #Term2 #DayInTheLifeofATL #SchoolLibraryStaff #NewBooks
April 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Canva Sheets brings all the brilliance of formulas, design power of Canva, and adds AI. And create visuals using Magic Charts. Putting in a simple report from our LMS let me create an interactive chart to display our top loans for the term.
#SchoolLibraries #AI #Canva #CanvaCreate #CanvaSheets
April 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Have you tried Canva Code? It's going to allow our students (and us) to prototype designs and ideas with ease. Still some limitations with editing the code directly or the design, but great for teaching prompting and rapid prototyping of apps and games.
#CanvaCreate #AI #SchoolLibraries #AIEducation
April 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I’m very much enjoying putting the finishing touches on my presentation for the TLPLC conference in May. Non-fiction is one of my favourite topics and there is so much to cover and so much to love about non-fiction. Register sites.google.com/syd.catholic...

#SchoolLibraries #ProfessionalDevelopment
April 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Junior Library renovation update - while we wait for the completion of the space, it’s awesome to see the arrival of some of our design and feature pieces, like the hero dots that were colour matched to our design. Can’t wait to see them in place and bringing colour and fun to the space.
December 9, 2024 at 6:10 AM
How do you empty and move an entire Library in two hours? Because you have to and you have the most incredible Library Team.

Superpower on full show as we moved literal mountains (of books, shelves and resources) today.

#SchoolLibraries #SchoolLibraryTeams #MovingALibrary
February 22, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Digital curation is a big part of my role and the start of the school year means new LibPaths for subject units and updating the general resource and how-to pages, including the multimedia, podcasting and artificial intelligence LibPaths.
#SchoolLibraries #LibPaths #ResearchGuides #DigitalCuration
February 7, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Spent the last two days rearranging the Library space. So happy with the end result. Feels so much better, more open, actually has a useable teaching area, makes use of the flow and connection to other areas. So grateful to everyone who helped, especially @timodesignspace.bsky.social #SchoolLibrary
January 12, 2024 at 8:06 PM
A treasure trove of reading and writing for pleasure research from Open University ourfp.org/publications/ #SchoolLibraries #ReadingCulture
January 6, 2024 at 11:20 PM
After a wonderful break of switching off from social media (mostly) and trying not to think about work (sort of) I have been diving into Dr Merga’s new book Creating A Reading Culture.
How will you be supporting reading and reading culture this year?
#ReadingCultures #SchoolLibraries
January 6, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Always love receiving the ALIA Professional Development newsletter each month. A great way to kickoff the new year. #SchoolLibraries #ProfessionalDevelopment #ALIA
January 4, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Today’s book haul. A nice chunk of next year’s budget spent, but couldn’t resist these beautiful books. Some are in response to student requests, others for curriculum, some fill collection gaps and some were just too beautiful not to have.
#NewBooks #SchoolLibraries
December 8, 2023 at 10:04 AM
I’ve been shopping!! Devoted the morning to some serious book shopping for the school library. Mainly purchased non-fiction and graphic novels. Got some seriously beautiful books, which I can’t wait to share with you and our students.
#SchoolLibraries #NewBooks #BookShopping #NonFiction
December 8, 2023 at 6:08 AM
Every year I put together an annual report with stats, data, photos, and events from the year. This year, some of those highlights are amazing. So proud and grateful to the team I get to work with, who do so many amazing things to make this possible.
#SchoolLibraries #AnnualReport #Advocacy
November 24, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Loved attending the Reinventing the Classroom Ed tech event today at Ormiston College with @timodesignspace.bsky.social Always love checking out others’s library spaces - thank you Kimberley for showing us your beautiful library. Some great ideas shared about expanding and redesigning learning. #PD
November 21, 2023 at 11:46 AM