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IASL's Picture Gallery of School Libraries. Submissions are welcome!
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International Association of School Librarianship (IASL)
2003 Annual Conference, Durban, South Africa, 7-11 July 2003
AND HIV and school libraries
At the 2002 IASL Conference in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Margaret Baffour-Awuah of Botswana gave a presentation on "The Fight Against HIV/AIDS: Are School Libraries at the Battle Front?". This paper is available in the printed proceedings of the 2002 conference. Because of the concerns that Margaret raised, it was suggested that we encourage special sessions on HIV/AIDS and school libraries at the 2003 conference.
It was also suggested that delegates be asked to bring a book from their country that deals in some way with HIV/AIDS -- whether a fiction book or an information book. The books would be the focus of a special display at the conference, and a bibliography would be compiled and shared. The display would let us see how HIV/AIDS is treated in books for young people in different parts of the world.
See our lists of Fiction Books for Young People and Picture Books for Young Children that deal in some way with HIV/AIDS. Suggestions for additions to these lists are welcome!
Some useful resources:
- Margaret Baffour-Awuah, "The fight against HIV/AIDS: Are school libraries at the battle front?", in Diljit Singh et al., School Libraries for a Knowledge Society, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship,... Seattle, WA: International Association of School Librarianship, 2002, pp.329-340.
- Alina le Roux, "AIDS: The Plague at our Door", Free State Libraries, July/September 2002, pp.10-14.
- Charles Batambuze, The Role of Libraries in Providing Access to Information for Children and Young Adults With Special Attention to AIDS, Paper presented at the 2003 IFLA Conference, Berlin, Germany.
- Kingo Mchombu, HIV/AIDS: What Role for Library and Information Centres? NIWA-INFO, 1, 2002 [Namibian Information Workers Association] -- scroll down for the article.
- Modise Mosothwane, An Investigation into Pupils' Understanding of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Including HIV / AIDS. Paper presented to the 6th National Conference on Teacher Education, University of Botswana, 23-25 July 2003.
- Bill Gould and Ulli Huber, HIV/AIDS, poverty and schooling: An AIDS epidemic or a poverty epidemic? from ID21 Development Research (A report that focuses on Uganda and Tanzania).
- John Kinsman and James Whitworth, Knowledge is power -- AIDS education for Ugandan schoolchildren from ID21 Development Research
- The Global Impact of HIV AIDS on Youth -- Fact Sheet, 2002 (pdf file)
- Focus on Children and HIV/AIDS -- Eldis Children and Development Guide
- Children Affected and Orphaned by HIV/AIDS: A Global Perspective -- National Pediatric and Family HIV Resource Center Fact Sheet (January 2000)
- Kelly McQueen and David Fassler, "Children's books about AIDS", Children's Literature in Education, 20(3): 1989, pp.183-190.
- Useful Web Sites:
- HIV and AIDS Resources on the Web -- an annotated list from learn.co.uk
- United Nations Programme on AIDS/HIV
- Guardian Special Report on AIDS
- World AIDS Day
- Death Stalks a Continent (Time Magazine)
- AIDS Foundation of South Africa
- AIDS and Africa
- Talk About Love / Life
- HIV and AIDS in Africa
Last Updated 20 July 2004