Welcome to the latest edition of Check-In for 2018! This newsletter is circulated every two months to all eSmart registered library services in Australia. We hope you make good use of it. If you think it would be beneficial to others, feel free to share it around.
The eSmart Digital Licence is Australia’s most comprehensive online cyber safety resource. It is designed to teach children and teenagers positive decision making skills. Find out more.
Eight short informative modules have been designed to highlight the latest online trends and pitfalls in cyber safety. Additional training modules are scheduled for release in early 2019.
eSmart Week is back again in the first week of September. It is a time when communities come together to raise awareness around being smart, safe and responsible online.
Don't forget to register to receive an eSmart toolkit to help you plan some great activities throughout the week.
Would library visitors know what to do if their child was being cyber bullied? The Office of the eSafety Commissioner has some great posters it is happy to send to libraries. These can be placed around the library or offered to local schools. A small touch, but one that could have a massive impact on the life of a young person.
Order your free cyber bullying posters.
Wimmera Library created an eSmart mousepad design and is allowing us to turn it into a template for you to use at your own library.
Other libraries have adapted it and turned it into their own ideas. See an example from Big Sky Libraries below.
If you want to download this, click to open in your browser.
Here's a fun moment from the eSmart team. The seven deadly sins have been transferred to the digital world.
Innovative, collaborative and resourceful are the three words that come to mind to describe Joint Use Libraries. Read this case study to find out how 42 libraries, from different jurisdictions came together on an eSmart journey.
Q: We have heard there are some changes coming post 30 June. Will they affect us?
A: 30 June is the final date to register; however, for a registered eSmart Library very little will change. You will still have access to the system, resources and all the additional benefits. While face-to-face training sessions will be limited, we will still be available to assist you over the phone, email and webinar. Not only that, but you will be eligible for eSmart Membership once you reach eSmart status.
Our partnership with the Telstra Foundation was launched in August 2012 by the former Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon. Julia Gillard MP. The $8 million multi-year partnership with the Telstra Foundation is delivering eSmart Libraries. The Framework is being provided in collaboration with Australia's library network to all of Australia's 1,500 public libraries.
eSmart Libraries is now in 75 per cent of public libraries across the country.