Special Interest Group - International Development

Co-ordinators:
Dr Marlene Asselin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
Ray Doiron, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI Canada

Objectives:

  1. To identify areas of expertise available among the membership for school library development projects.
  2. To identify partners who need assistance in applying for grants (or similar funding) for projects, which fall within the objectives of IASL.
  3. To function in a consultative capacity to match available expertise to grant application needs
  4. To report other related activities as appropriate to the mandate of the SIG.

Potential activities:

Sabbatical Leave Project: The Kapingamarangi School Community Library -- report by Mark C. Goniwiecha, Professor of Library Science, University of Guam Library.

Kapingamarangi Mark Goniwiecha directs the students of the combination 4th - 5th grade class in concert on a rainy Kapingamarangi Taro Patch Day holiday, Thursday, March 15, 2007.

Kapingamarangi
Kapingamarangi Elementary School with the newly build library room upstairs.

Mark Goniwiecha
Mark eats a typical meal of fish, taro, rice and a coconut.
ENSIL Bookmark Swap

The ENSIL Bookmark Swap, which took place in March 2008 at the ECIS Conference in Berlin, was a great success. School librarians from international schools throughout Europe and beyond brought thousands of bookmarks from all over the world. Those who took part in the swap donated one (or more) special bookmarks to the IASL auction which will take place in August 2008 in Berkeley, California. Some of the bookmarks from Russia, China, Belgium, Sweden, Turkey are really beautiful. These bookmarks will all be forwarded to the IASL International Ambassador, Mr Gerald Brown, who will make sure they are included in the auction. The money which is earned during this famous yearly auction will be used to assist school libraries in developing countries. Bookmark swappers also donated one or moer bookmarks to the John F. Kennedy Schule in Berline. These bookmarks have already been handed over to the grateful school librarians. [Sumbitted by Helen Boelen, 9 March 2008]

See the Library Year 2008 in Umea report by Inger Edebro Sikstrom, Umea Central Public Library
See the Piala Conference Report, YAP, Federated States of Micronesia, 17 to 21 November 2008
See the SpringEvent Conference Report, Rome, Italy, 11 April 2008 by Claudio Laferla, Malta
See the International Development SIG's page of Links to Sites on Volunteerism
Annual reports for the International Development SIG -- 2008 | 2007 | 2006 |

Last updated 22 February (KSB)