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Help for Polish School Libraries

In Poland, now takes the fight for school libraries. The government wants financial expenditure cuts he wants to avoid marginalization and elimination of school libraries. The Internet is a big place for civil protest is not political: NOT FOR THE LIQUIDATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES. Similar attempts to reduce school libraries were previously in other countries. They were stopped by the social…

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Added by Janek J. Korczynski on March 13, 2013 at 1:04pm — No Comments

It’s not about the “stuff” -- Teaching information literacy in Vietnam

Interesting article by Michele Van Hoeck in College & Research Library News about teaching information literacy in a resource-poor environment.

"How would you teach information literacy to students with minimal print resources and no access to subscription databases? What if you had a whole semester to teach an eager class of college freshmen, but their only resources were what they could find for free on…

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Added by Tom Kaun on March 3, 2013 at 4:44pm — No Comments

Happy Birth day Dr. Seuss

Dear Friends,



March 2nd marks the 109th birthday of Dr. Seuss. To celebrate, the United States honors him with Read Across America Day.

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.

He was born on March 2, 1904, Springfield

and died September 24, 1991, La Jolla

His Full name was Theodor Seuss Geisel …

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Added by chhavi on March 2, 2013 at 7:05pm — No Comments

An exciting new magazine came out on 31st October 2012.  Horror author David Gatward (The Dead/The Dark/The Damned/Doomrider) brought out a new magazine called TheKillRoom.  The best thing about this…

An exciting new magazine came out on 31st October 2012.  Horror author David Gatward (The Dead/The Dark/The Damned/Doomrider) brought out a new magazine called TheKillRoom. 

The best thing about this magazine as well as having short stories by himself,Tommy Donbavand,Alexander Gordon Smith & Jon Mayhew, He has brought this magazine out so students from any school can get their work published. David would like students to send him anything they have to put into the magazine - movie…

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Added by Beth Khalil on November 4, 2012 at 10:27pm — No Comments

Millennium Learning Resource Centre Skills Programme

When we go back to school next week after the half term break, as well as our Accelerated Reading lessons we are starting to run a Library Skills Programme for our year 7/8 students.  We are hoping to cover all areas of the LRC so by the end of the year all students can use the LRC competently & independently.  We also hope that this will generate even more student…

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Added by Beth Khalil on November 3, 2012 at 10:51pm — No Comments

3rd anniversary of the Ibero-America Information Literacy Project (Forwarded from the INFOLIT listserv)

This October 25th marks the 3rd anniversary of the Ibero-America Information

Literacy Project that began with the blog:

http://alfiniberoamerica.blogspot.com and has continued with the generation of

different Web resources: http://aurl.es/bd.u



To mark this…

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Added by Tom Kaun on October 26, 2012 at 3:33am — No Comments

Information Literacy sessions begin at KV Pattom

The role of Librarians as Teachers in information literacy is not a well explored area in India. The new Library Policy of Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV) or Central Schools (under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India) has made it compulsory to Librarians to conduct classes on core information literacy concepts. He/She has to teach the students…

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Added by S. L. Faisal on October 21, 2012 at 12:00am — No Comments

American Cooperative School of Tunis needs your help!

If you haven't heard, ACST suffered an attack last month and lost a great deal in terms of resources and property, including the entire elementary library.

You can learn more about what happened in the Atlantic Wire article "Sudan Protesters Attack German and British Embassies.

If you would like to donate to help rebuild and restock the…

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Added by Katy Jean Vance on October 8, 2012 at 12:17am — No Comments

International School Library Month 2012

It's October once again and time to celebrate ISLM for 2102.

This year's theme is School Libraries: a key to the past, present and future.

In the coming days the ISLM website will be updated. You can then download this year's poster and bookmark, connect with another school by creating a bookmark of your own and sending it away or Skype another school somewhere in the…

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Added by Marie O'Brien on October 6, 2012 at 9:42am — No Comments

http://iaslasia.pbworks.com/w/page/58688285/FrontPage

Dear Friends,

IASLASIA workspace has been created by Mrs. Madhu Bhargava.

It is very special place for all of us to celebrate and disccuss our contribution toward our profession.

http://iaslasia.pbworks.com/w/page/58688285/FrontPage

Chhavi Jain 

Added by chhavi on October 1, 2012 at 10:37pm — 1 Comment

Third International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World

The Third International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW2012) organized by the Department of Information Management ofHacettepe University will take place in Ankara during September 19-21, 2012 (See the Google map for venue and the hotels in the vicinity: …

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Added by Tom Kaun on August 25, 2012 at 4:15am — No Comments

Lets welcome Fernanda!

IASL has a new member!  Fernanda has received the  Da Vinci Huis IASL Fund for Brazil Award,  We are all happy to announce that she will be with us in Doha in November thanks to the contribution of Dr. Albert Boekhorst and his Da Vinci Huis…

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Added by Katharina B.L. Berg on July 29, 2012 at 1:39am — 1 Comment

Alves Redol ( 1911 – 2011, centenary of his birth )

In articulation with the National Reading Plan (PNL), the School Library ( BE ) and the academic subject , Educação Tecnológica,  the students of the class 7thD made this extraordinary work  made  with  sticks , small stones and  paper pulp, which  represent chapters of the book they read.

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Added by Maria Isabel Silva on June 1, 2012 at 4:46am — No Comments

Reading Week ( Semana da Leitura )

We  want to share  the activities planned for the reading week.

We would like to get some feedback from other schools.

The activities of the “Reading Week “ (“Semana da Leitura ) 2012, included in the National Reading Plan…

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Added by Maria Isabel Silva on April 22, 2012 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Research into information literacy within IB: what would you like to know?

If you could ask students, parents and teachers in the DP years of IB schools one or more questions regarding the development of information literacy skills, what would you ask?

I am starting a research project on this topic, examining the significance teachers, librarians, students and parents place upon the development of information literacy skills and how these skills are being developed, not only with students but also with their teachers.

I look forward to hear your ideas and to… Continue

Added by Jeroen Callens on October 2, 2011 at 2:51pm — No Comments

IFLA IL Section Blog

The IFLA Information Literacy Section has replaced it's bi-annual 'newsletter' by a blog. In this way we hope to react more timely on relevant activities and news. See http://ifla-il-section.blogspot.com/. You are invited to join and you can be informed on new items by mail by adding your e-mail address under 'Follow by email"

Added by Albert K. Boekhorst on August 28, 2011 at 2:51am — No Comments

Harry Potter Birthday celebrations at Library, Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom, India

Harry Potter series of books proved that children’s books without illustrations can also become so popular and trendsetters in reading and publishing, said Dr. Radhika C. Nair, Children’s writer and the translator of the first Harry Potter book into Malayalam. She was speaking at the Meet the Author session organized by the Library Media…

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Added by S. L. Faisal on August 7, 2011 at 8:46pm — No Comments

School library of the year

sl associations in Berlin/Brandenburg and Hesse gained some public interest when they honoured three school libraries of the year  http://ning.it/mUSboF

 

Added by Günter Schlamp on July 6, 2011 at 7:00pm — No Comments

German sl weblog Basedow1764

Want to follow the school library discussions in Germany? http://basedow1764.wordpress.com (German language)

Added by Günter Schlamp on July 6, 2011 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Α good year for the Greek School Libraries

2010-11 school year brought four important prizes for the Greek school libraries.

2 european ones and three  national prizes. Not bad for an institution that counts a mere decade in education!

However, in view of the economical situation in Greece, they face an uncertain future, speaking of funding and personnel cut-downs.

The teachers that support this most important and innovative -for Greece- institution have made several efforts to publish school library work, not in…

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Added by Helen Karavanidou on June 30, 2011 at 8:59pm — No Comments

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