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International School Library Day in the UK

In the UK we are celebrating ISLD on Monday 1st October, which is the first day of National Children's Book Week.  The SLA has created some new posters and bookmarks which are available in English and Welsh and can be found at www.sla.org.uk/isld-posters and anyone may download and print them.

We have also added several translations of information about our association in European languages, as requested by ENSIL last year.  They were added yesterday to celebrate the European Day of languages.

Anyone who is interested in what is going on in the UK is welcome to subscribe to my blog found at www.sla.org.uk.

Kathy Lemaire
Chief Executive
The School Library Association

ISLD: International Seminar in Rome

The Library: a Partner with the school in the Educational Process.
Reflections, practices and perspectives

That is the theme of an international seminar in Rome on 29 October 2007.  The seminar is part of the activities on International School Library Day.

You find more information in the leaflet here. (155.5K)

ISLD 2007 Message Director Europe IASL

The official celebration of International School Library Day 2007 is Monday, October 22.
But on many places all over the world, ISLD will be celebrated on other more appropriate dates, based on national, regional or even local circumstances.

The dates may differ but the theme will be the same everywhere: ‘Learning: powered by your school library!’

All information on ISLD 2007 can be found at the website of IASL, the International Association of School Librarianship, like the colourful logo, promotion material, sample letter to promote ISLD in your own region, the ISLD 2007 poster and information on the ‘email around the world project’.

Celebrate ISLD in your school library or school media resource centre: your school deserves it!

Lourense H. Das

Director Europe for IASL
Coordinator ENSIL, European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy

Biblioteche nelle Scuole

Connecting schools with the local context and the library world, providing innovative services, granting access to information, by the means of co-operation and the services of the Italian National Library Service (SBN), are the main goals of “Biblioteche nelle Scuole” (“Biblioscuole”) project.

This national three-year pilot project is funded and supported by the Ministry of Education, University and Research, Direzione Generale Servizi Informativi (MIUR-DGSI) and Department of Technology and Innovation (DIT), in collaboration with National Centre for the Union Catalogue (ICCU) and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiBAC). It was launched in April 2004.

The main aims of the project are: providing a wider access to information; enhancing information literacy, and promoting reading. The overall goal is to contribute to lifelong learning, for a continuous cultural development and the social inclusion.

More information on www.biblioscuole.it.

Theka Project

The Portuguese Theka Project - the Calouste Gulbenkian Project for Teacher Education  to Develop School Libraries - is a project based on co-operation between school libraries, public libraries, the Portuguese Library Association (BAD) and the Gulbenkan Foundation. The project has three goals:

1. Training teachers to develop schools libraries as resource centres to improve reading, information literacy, pupils success and learning, as well as to  provide support for lifelong learning and gateways to knowledge and culture.
2. Developing school library projects working closely with pupils, staff, and community, through managing and supporting the school curriculum and extra-curricular activities in order to promote a whole-school ethos.
3. Creating and maintaining self-training resources using a wide range of different supports including web pages, database, reference documents, information on research and innovation.

More information on www.theka.org.

IASL website renewed

In June the Website of IASL has been renewed. A complete make-over!
Please have a look and please note the URL has changed: http://www.iasl-online.org/
So, update your websites and PR-material.

Lourense Das