The Connected Library:
A handbook for engaging users
by Suzette Boyd
ISBN 0-646-46138-9
Price A$60.00
Published by Utopia Press
In recent times librarians in schools have come to be considered technology experts, curriculum leaders, literature gurus, web masters and providers of on-line information and professional development. They are also expected to be human dynamos, with energy to burn, to have a huge capacity to absorb new information, to have the imagination to deliver exciting new programs, whilst at the same time having the ability to maintain an efficient and relevant library service. Suzette Boyd believes this is probably still not enough and that the level of engagement with users is the real measure of success!

In The Connected Library Suzette Boyd points the way to:
  • Building connections and trust with students
  • Communicating with and enlisting the support of all users
  • Being positive, upbeat and enthusiastic
  • Marketing and promoting the library through an extraordinary array of ideas and activities
  • Influencing the Principal
  • Becoming the cultural and educational hub of the school
    • Suzette Boyd, whose career spans thirty-six years as a secondary teacher librarian, has earned her reputation for innovative ideas and practice by pushing boundaries, engaging users, taking risks and embracing change.

    Sharing her love of reading and literature with young people resulted in Suzette editing two collections of short stories "Between You and Me" (1989) and "Fatal Twists" (1993). She is also the author of many published articles and regularly speaks at conferences and runs workshops throughout Australia and overseas.

    Suzette was the winner of the inaugural Dromkeen Librarian’s Award (1994), Australian Library and Information Association Award for innovation in a school library (1999), Progressive School Library Media Award from the International Association of School Librarianship (1999), International Association of School Librarianship /SIRS Commendation Award (2002), International Association of School Librarianship /Concord School Library Web Page of the Year Award (2002).

    Currently Suzette is Head of Library and Information Services at Scotch College in Melbourne.

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