
On Nov.13th a meeting was held at the
141st Primary School - San Cleto in Rome. A delegation of nine persons (school teachers and helpers, the teacher librarian, and their principal) from the
Nylund Skole () in Stavanger met the school principal and her staff (the teacher…
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SPECIAL MOMENTS AND SPECIAL INITIATIVES
Special moments in Italy and interesting talks with Bernadete Campello and Albert Boekhorst resulted in special initiatives to promote school librarianship in Brazil. The Stichting het Da Vinci Huis, a foundation presided by IASL member Alber Boekhorst is incentivating school librarians from Brazil to participate in our organization and attend the conferences in Brisbane. This certainly will call attention to our work and important contributions to school…
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Again the SLM in Brazil was celebrated with a conference. Like last year, school librarians were invited to attend a two day event called “Coloquio entre Educadores”
http://coloquioentreeducadores.blogspot.com/. The mornings were dedicated to four guest speakers who shared ideas on technology, information , leadership and collaboration with a very attentive audience. In the afternoon, the University of Sumaré opened their large and well…
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On Friday 30th October, at Government House in Brisbane, the Queensland College of Teachers celebrated World Teachers' Day by recognising and celebrating teachers who inspire their school communities.
Our very own IASL member, Pat Carmichael is the inaugural award winner for 2009 of the Alan Druery OAM Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Added by Karen Bonanno on November 19, 2009 at 11:14am —
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A new information literacy blog has been started for the Iberoamerican world.
It's called
Alfabetización Informacional / Iberoamérica and covers Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
Lots of links are also supplied to Facebook pages, a Google Group, Linkedin, Twitter, Second Life and more.
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Un nuevo blog de alfabetización de l…
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Added by Tom Kaun on November 11, 2009 at 2:53am —
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An anniversary movie celebrating the first 10 years of School Libraries in public schools in Greece.
It is the joint work of various school libraries from all over Greece.
In this short video you can see snapshots of the diverse work that has been done
the last few years of this new institution:
lessons using the rich materials of our collection and new tech…
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Added by emmanuel ninos on November 2, 2009 at 10:39pm —
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The
Library Media Centre at Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom celebrated
International School Library Day with various programmes from 26-28 October 2009.
Competitions were held on…
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Within ISLM 2009, on Oct.28th, the
Liceo Scientifi…
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On Oct.27th, within the OPL 2009 - "Ottobre, piovono libri" (October, it rains books!) and the ISLM, the "De Chirico" School Library, belonging to the "Savinio" High School for Arts, celebrates its 10 years of activity. A joint (school and city council) "Bibliopoint" is opened in the library, in order…
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Rovigoamicolibro[1].pdf
Starting Oct.22nd, a serie of meetings and seminars for school teachers' and librarians' professional development is held in Rovigo for the ISLM 2009 until Nov.5th. Programme: see above.
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On Oct. 16th, the World Food Day, during the special event in "Cinema", the Rome Film Festival, the new FAO goodwill ambassadors declared their committment. The role of education and information in the defeat of hunger and related diseases was underlined.
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Added by Luisa Marquardt on October 27, 2009 at 7:20pm —
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Prof. Vincenzo Pellegrini, the Director of the Italian National Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO CNI,
http://www.unesco.it/SitoFrancese/Commissione_nazionale_italiana_per_unescoF/Commissione_nazionale_italiana_unesco.htm), retired on Oct.12th 2009.
Some delegates from the Italian library community, with many colleagues of his, conveined at the UNESCO Italian Headquarte…
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The 38th IASL Conference offered several attendees an opportunity to get deeperly in touch with the Italian (school)library world.
In Italy, many schools were established between the end of the 19th - early 20th century, after the unification of the Reign (1860, without Rome and the Vatican…
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At the welcome reception delegates not only experienced the opportunity to feast on local produce and wine but they had the chance to congratulate the award recipients.
Andrea Walker, Head of Library & Information Resources, Renaissance College, Hong Kong was the recipient of the LinksPlus Library C…
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Added by Karen Bonanno on September 3, 2009 at 2:11am —
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Some of the pre-conference events have started. For some it was a day of meetings of the IASL Board and Executive. For others it involved participation in the pre-conference workshops.
Thanks to the brilliant skills of David DiGregorio, SIG ICT, you can view live and on demand video from…
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Added by Karen Bonanno on September 2, 2009 at 1:32am —
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I would be very interested in hearing from other Aussies who are attending the conference in Padua to discuss when we are arriving, where we are staying etc. Three weeks to go! I can't wait!
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Added by Brenda on August 6, 2009 at 11:05pm —
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IASL 2009 programmeEN_20090731_DEF.pdf
Flyers, posters, booklet etc.: just printed!
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Added by Luisa Marquardt on August 1, 2009 at 3:30am —
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All set for
Padua? Ready to dive in its historical streets and palaces? The
38th IASL Annual Conference will be the occasion to discover interesting places and, of course, many libraries. We'…
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Added by Luisa Marquardt on August 1, 2009 at 3:30am —
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Very busy days in Abano - Padua (...and Rome) the last ones, in preparation of the
IASL 2009 Conference!
A meeting with school principals and teachers was held in Abano, at…
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Added by Luisa Marquardt on July 13, 2009 at 3:00am —
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