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International School Library Day 2007

Date: 22 October 2007

Learning: Powered by your school library

What People Are Doing for International School Library Day 2007

Pakistan

From Nur Ali Barkat Ali Tejani, Acting Program Officer, Learning Technology Team, Aga Khan Education Service.
Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan (AKES,P) is amongst the earliest non governmental organizations in this region establishing its first school in 1905 in Gawadar, Balochistan province. A century later, AKES,P with 186 schools, over 200 community based initiatives and 100 public and 100 private partner schools is providing educational access to over 75,000 students across Pakistan. A total of 220 staff is employed out of which 1600 are teachers.

AKES,P in its schools based at Karachi have initiated a learning technology programme to facilitate the school learning community to engage computers, internet and library resources for creative, innovative and applied use for promoting self / independent learning. This year focused programme for promotion of literacy and reading is being developed in collaboration with the school library teams.

Brief outline of ISLD Activities:
Today a great day, we have celebrated International School Library Day second time in Aga Khan School, Garden. This time we have planned to celebrate it as a week long programme and we are covering all grades (K-12). The overall objectives of the programme are:

Promote school library and / or International School Library Day
Provide a platform to students to show their hidden talents
Express thoughts and ideas in an Aesthetic way
Enhance poetry writing skills amongst students
Provide opportunities to explore their own capabilities
Appreciate and recognize students’ work by publishing in News Letter / Quest
Promote books and reading habit
Create an environment in which the terms "structure," "chaos," and "collectivity" are given new meaning.
Address the unique technological needs of children
Control costs using proven bidding and evaluation methods
Understand the technical drawings and language used in architecture

Programme Details are:

Creative Writing / Poetry Writing / Poster Making Competition for Kindergarten
Creating Book Marks Competition for class III
Poster Making Competition for class IV-V
Poetry Writing Competition / Writing Book Review for class VI-VII
Model Competition for class VIII
Creating Library Logos / Slogans Competition for class IX-X

Programme Themes / Topics are:

My Book land
My library is a world of knowledge and wisdom
International School Library Day
Modern library and we
Develop a Dream Model of School Library

From Farah Siddique, School Coordinator, Happy Home School, Karachi.
Happy Home School is one of the oldest institutions in Karachi, with a colourful past, filled with students who have gone on to distinguish themselves as scientists, doctors, engineers, businessmen, teachers and other professionals. It was founded in 1949 by Mrs. Maryam Faruqi, the Senion Adminstrator.

Happy Home School has been celebrating the ISLD since 2004 on the 4th Monday of the month of October. The celebrations continue for a week. This time due to Ramazan and Eid holidays we had to postpone our library day celebrations till November 5 to 10. Fliers were distributed detailing the activities.

The following invitation was sent to students and parents - "We are pleased to inform that the International Library Week is celebrated at Happy Home School each year. This year the week is celebrated from November 5th to November 10th 2007. The activities conducgted throughout the week are mentioned. You are requested to attend a talk by the children's writer, Aamirah Alam, with the students of Class V on November 8, 2007, Thursday at 10.45 am to 11.30 am. The children's work will be on display on Saturday November 10. Looking forward to welcoming you. Ms Gohar Sultana and Ms Farhat Jabeen, Librarians."

The following activities were carried out during the week: Assembly presentation related to the Library Day from November 5th to 10th 2007; character dress up by Class II; setting up of library corner in each class; decorations of class bulletin borads with the theme of International School Library Day; A talk by the children's writer Aamirh Alam with the students of Class V; display of book reviews, poems, messages and greetings written by students of primary and secondary section; illustration of any story character by Class III - Class V students; display of logos, book marks designed by the students; Book Fair: display of assorted books by Liberty Books; visit to Oxford University Press by students of Class VIII; parent interview by students; Eager Reader Awards were given to the students who had read the maximum number of books during the previous year. This time teacher were also given Eager Reades Award. A special aware was given to a teacher for promoting reading in students.

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Philippines

From Agnes F. Manlangit, Teacher librarian, Beacon International School, Taguig City.
The Beacon International School is an IB World School offering PYP and undergoing pre-authorization for MYP. For this year, our activities include:

DEAR time in the morning
The whole week of Oct 22 - 26th, students will create advertisements celebrating the importance of the school library in their learning. Works will be posted all around the school.
These will be up until we have our Book Trivia context called "Bookabunga!" on November 9th.

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Poland

From Jan Jackowicz-Korczynski, ENSIL co-ordinator in Poland, European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy in Poland.
I have prepared an interactive digital platform for Policy teachers of librarians at ISLD, ENSIL. There is a common on Polish librarian ISLD-blog. This service is in its second year already. In this year I have prepared new web tools, Web2.0. Librarians can place multimedia information about ISLD in the library - dynamic foto-gallery, video or audio.

From Renata Sowada, President of the Polish Teachers Union - Libraries Section in Czestochowa.
I would like to inform you about the ISLD 2007 activities of teacher librarians in Czestochowa and Jurrasic Region in Poland. We proclaimed School Libraries Week that opens on 22 October and closes on 27 October 2007. On the 22nd we will celebrate ISLD 2007 in our schools and school libraries. All-Polish Scientific-Instructive Conference: Multimedial Information Centers in Libraries and the Fourth Regional Librarians Forum will take place on 23rd of October in City Hall of Czestochowa, Poland. Polish Teachers Union - Librarians Section in Czestochowa and organizations of librarians from our region will organize this conference. Polish retrospective of European Library Congress 2007 in Wels, Austria (April 2007) will be an important topic of this conference. Next days we will celebrate our holiday in our schools, reading books, making competitions, exhibitions connected with ISLD 2007. The latest day of School Libraries Week is connected with our participation in the 11th Book Fair in Cracow. School libraries in Poland is real power in the educational process. More information is available at eKurier NB.

From Maria Konopnicka, Primary school, Drelow.
On the occasion of the ISLD we would like to with all teacher librarians and readers the realisation of your plans, a lot of joy that comes from reading books, unrelenting energy and cheerful ness, as well as satisfaction in you day-to-day study and work.

From Malgorzata Grot-Rapika, Teacher and teacher librarian, Szkola Podstawowa nr 36, Boydgoszcz.
ISLD has been celebrated in our school since 2003. On this occasion our school is decorated with colourful posters that invite everyone to visit our library. Moreover, posters consist of the programme of celebrities. We organize difference contests, exhibitions and shows. Younger groups from our school and children from the kindergarten are invited to classes. In this day, all the children who are borrowing books from the library may help themselves to sweets and the school staff is invited to drink coffeee and eat some cake. All active readers may always count on some small gifts. This year ISLD is very special for us because our school is celebrating its 50th anniversary. For this reason, one of th main elements of our library's decor is the exhibition of photographs connected with all the history of our library. ISLD in our school is prepared by pupils - representatives from 3rd and 4th year (2 people from each class). These children are sympathizers and active readers of our library. They always support the library and its activity. We are happy that we can celebrate ISLD together with other libraries all over the world. Greetings for all.

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Portugal

From Ana Cristina Fontes, responsible for the school library, Escola Basica 2/3 Jorge de Montemor.
This year we are going to carry out a Reading Relay, starting and ending at the school library. Students representing all the classes will go from classroom to classroom with a book and in each stop they will read a very short story. The chosen books were Gianni Rodani's Stories on the phone and Goscinni's and Sempe's The return of little Nicholas. At the school canteen the students will be encouraged to visit the school library with messages written on the tray paper and a special Day Menu will be delivered. At home, parents will receive some magic recipes teaching how to make their children more interested in reading and using the school library as a means to improvie their school results.
Happy School Library day to everyone.
See our Reading Relay poster, Canteen Poster and Paper tray towels.

From Elisabeta Fiel, Director of Library, Escola de Campo maior Campo Maior.
The school library of the secondary school of Campo Maior is going to celebrate the School Library Day organizing a Library Peddy Paper. During this activity pupils should look for information in our library while they are solving a game. We also established a partnership with the school library in Vila Vicosa and so we invited the writier, Maria Jose Mestre, who is going to talk to a group of adults about some books. The school library is also going to hold an exhibition about Campo Maior. At the same time, two local writers, Fancisco Galego and Luis Caracas, will also be here. This activity will be organised with the help of the class EFA - Adult Education. Finally, we are going to offer bookmarkers, sweets and passages quoted from books. All activities will be advertised on our Library Site and Blog. See also our poster and bookmarks.

From Maritza Pinto Ferreira Dias, School Library Coordinator, representing Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas de Macedo de Cavaleiros.
We are a group of schools, named Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas de Macdeo de Cavaleiros. We have got a "trunk" full of activities that will happen in the three school libraries of the group next 22nd October - International School Library Day.

Presentation of the book, Portas & Palavras, written by nine-year old students of our group of schools
Display of some interviews, solicited to noted personalities from this region and country, on the theme: "The school library when I was a student..."
Divulgation of the blog concerning the three school libraries
A panel building "In my opinion, the school library is..."
Bibliopaper
Display "Caught in the school library" (photos of people caught doing activities in the school library)
Opening of the applications for school library monitors
Colouring the poster from ISLD
Exhibition - "History of the libraries"
"A portrait with books" (collective photo of students and teachers holding a book)
Display of some representative sentences, written by different authors, to be known by the students
Invitation sending, inviting parents to visit the school library that their children attend
Press release to local and regional newspapers and local radio.

From Manuela Baptista, teacher responsible for the school library, Escola EB 2,3 de Rio Tinto No2, Rio Tinto.
We will be celebrating ISLD again this year with the following activities:

Animation of the school library and other school areas with PowerPoint presentations about the importance of the school library in promoting and improving the students' learning process.
Information about the distribution of the new "Research Guide" created by the school library for teachers and students.
"Discovery (educational) Visits" for 5th grade students, between 22nd and 26th October in collaboration with their "Estudo Acompanhado" and "Project work teachers".
Information about a contest to design a poster for the School Group Project, "Children who like (to hear) reading", (project related to the PNL - National Reading Plan).
Meeting of the members of the School Library Friends' Club.
Offering gifts relating to this day to the members of the school board, the local council and the Parents' Association, inviting them to pay the library a visit.
Sending a press release to local newspapers and to the newspaper, Primerio de Janeiro.
Information about the activities on the IASL website.

Take a look at our bookmarks for ISLD.

From Isabel Mendinhos, School library, Escola Basica 2/3 Galopim de Carvalho, Queluz.
This year, students have engaged to make projects for a mousepad related to ISLD. There will be an exhibition of all the projects and the school community will be voting to choose the five best. Those will be made into real mousepads to be sold during the book fair in December. Inside the library there will be a panel where students will write their ideas suggested by the questions: "In the library: Do you learn more? Do you learn better?" There will be a photo session with the library monitor students. The classes will be shown, for the first time, their reading passports, where they will register, along the school year, all the books they read. In the evening, parents will come for a visit to the school library. The visit will be guided by our monitor students. After this, they will participate in a conference: "How do I stimulate my child to read?".

From Angelina Pereira, EB2,3, Maria Manuela Sa, Matosinhos.
This is what we are planning for 22 October:

special edition of our Bulletin
an exhibition of bookmarks made by students
a quiz - "How well do you know your library?"
participation in the Bookmark Project (we will have pictures on a blog.)
a big poster at the school hall.

From Escola EB 2,3 D. Afonso III
Our school developed these activities - Poster of our school made by the librarian team and a list of books by Portuguese writers chosen by our students of 10 to 12 years old (Basic school - 2nd cycle) to be read by children of the world.

Andersen, Sophia de Mello Breyner, A Menina do Mar, Ed. Figuerinhas
Faria, Filipe, A Manopla de Karasthan, Ed. Presenca
Magalhaes, Anna Maria e Alcada, Isabel, Coleccao, Uma Aventura, Ed. Caminho
Meneres, Maria Alberta, Ulisses, Ed. Asa
Moto, Antonio, Os Herois do 6F, Ed. Gailivro

From Maria de Fatima Pinto, School library coordinator, Escola Secundaria Braamcamp Frieire, Lisbon.
This is our website for ISLD.

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Romania

From Adelina Macovei, Activities and Educationa Projects Coordinator, Aurel Vlaicu School, Braila.
We would like very much to celebrate ISLD and we would be very happy to develop some of these activities of which we have been informed. We will be doing some of the following:

Pupils between ages of 7-8 years old will be making book marks for the colleagues in other schools
Children between ages of 9-10 years old will be reading story books in the library
Pupils between ages 11-12 years old will be collecting books from other pupils from other schools
Pupils of all ages (7-14 years old) are already donating books this week to our school library
Pupils between ages of 13-14 years old will be exchanging quotes from different books with other pupils from other schools (the pupils will have read the specific books and will have chosen the quotes they liked the most)

We would like to take this opportunity to let you know that we are very honored that we can be part of this event that is celebrated all over the world. Please advise of other suitable activities that we can include on this occasion.

From Sofia and Adriana, classroom teachers, School No. 7 Restita, Resita. Language of instruction: Romanian, English, French - 3rd and 4th grade.
On 22nd October 2007 we are going to have a presentation of 4 Big Books about Folk Tales and Legends, handmade by students from our school, 2 Sou "Academic Emilian Stanev" - Sofia, Bulgaria and Szcola Podstawowa im. Gen. Jozefa Gizy, Wieloglowe, Poland. The books are written both in each country language and in English. Will be speakers among teachers from our school who have been involved in an international project "European Big Book about Folk Tales and Legends". Students are going to offer handmade bookmarks to the teachers, parents and other participants. Some of these bookmarks will be sent to the other 2 schools - project partners - and our students will receive bookmarks from them.

From Camelia Mantarosie, librarian, The Documentation Centre (School Library) of Scholar Group "Nicolae Balcesu", Intorsura-Buzaului, Covasna County.
A couple of weeks ago I discovered the online IASL site which I had found very interesting. I consider that being a part of the International Association of School Librarianship would allow me to improve the activity of my centre and get a good image on the activities of the school libraries in the entire world. I also found out about ISLD and I have organised activities in our high school. I have included a brief report of our activities with a PowerPoint presentation and other short presentations of some Romanian writers (Eminescu and Eliade) made by our students to popularise the Romanian literature.

Other activities:

Creation of special bookmarks for ISLD by the project team. These bookmarks will be distributed to all the students in the school in order to advertise the event.
"Another step towards learning autonomy" - Activity meant to introduce the school library, respectively the documentation centre, to young students. To achieve this, pupils in the 3rd and 4th class for "Bobobcea School" were invited to the Documentation Centre - School Library of Scholar Group "N.Balcescu" (It must be stated the Bobocea School does not have a school library nor Internet access.) To documentation centre facilities were presented to the visiting students, they were taught how to find a book in the documentation centre, how to use a dictionary, how to find a book in a virtual library and how to use the Internet for enjoyment. Pictures from this activity are included in the PowerPoint presentation. Along the entire day they were guided by our high school students who found this a great opportunity to apply and share their knowledge. At the end of the activity the visiting students received copies of the poster especially created for ISLD and they could colour it in.
"If you want to read Romanian literature, I could recommend"...- Activity through which our students found five of the most famous Romanian writers and put up five short PowerPoint presentations on their work. Their purpose was to advertise Romanian literature in the world by mean of the IASL.
"The book I always wanted to read - a dream come true" - Activity for encouraging reading. On ISLD all the students will bring with them a book they always wanted to read, but never had time. At the same time they will be allowed to spend an hour reading the book. When the time elapses students from the project team will share the bookmarks created especially for ISLD and will ask the other students to place them in their books with the hope they would continue reading further on.
Meeting with the teachers' board and discuss the activities and their results and also plan further activities.
....."And Party!"... celebrating International School Library Day.

From Adelina Macovei, Activities and Educational Projects Coordinator, Aurel Vlaicu School, Braila.
On October 22nd we celebrated the ISLD in our school library. We are very happy to have developed some of these activities of which we have been informed. We are doing the the following:

We had a guest from the "Panait Istrati" Library and spoke to our people about the books and the activities of the library.
Pupils between the ages of 7 - 8 years old made 25 book marks for their colleagues and shared them.
Children between ages of 9 - 10 years old read poems and story books in the library.
Pupils between the ages of 11 and 12 years old collected books from other pupils and donated to the school library.
Pupils of all ages (7 - 14 years) are already donating books this week to our school library.
Pupils between ages of 13 - 14 years old exchanged quotes from different books with other pupils from other schools (the pupils will have read the specific books and will have chosen the quotes they liked the most).

Our pupils were very excited to join in this event that was celebrated all over the world.

From George Anca, Director, Pedagogical National Library.
ISLD in Budesti, Bucharest and Targu-Jiu, Romania. Last year I celebrated ISLD in the school of here and there, in unity and empathy. This year, in Bucharest, within a joint project, "Poets on stage", ISLD was highlighted as a start for a series of education through poetry gathering authors, actors, school talents. In the context, actor Thomas Nibbelin from USA gave a recital from Walt Whitman in Bucharest American Corner, Pedagogical National Library. At the national meeting of school libraries, 1st November 2007, Targu-Jiu, is secheduled to start a Romanian Association of School Libraries to be affiliated to IASL.

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Russia

From Elmir Yakubov, Director of public city library, Khasavyurt, Dagestan.
Our library actively helps school libraries of the city. Every year we mark ISLD. This year we have decided to lead a marathon of school libraries - Russian from A up to Z. The event will begin on October, 22nd. Within a week each school library will present experience of the work on promotion of Russian. Peoples of Dagestan communicate among themselves in Russian. The marathon will come to an end on October, 26th. This day we have invited colleagues from Moscow, the Chechen Republic and from the Gunib region of Dagestan.

Various book exhibitions will be prepared for this day. There will be a photo exhibition, Reading Children, and an exhibition of paintings. The most interesting projects and ideas will be noted and there will be a cheerful concert and celebratory entertainment.

Within three months I have written down on video more than 30 references to our school librarians of the well-known people from the different countries. It will be a great surprise for all.

I will send you a report about the library marathon and photos.

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Serbia

From Mirjana Soskic, Librarian/IT, Nevenka Vejkovic, Teacher Librarian and Jasmina Popovic, Media Specialist, Experimental Elementary School, Vladislav Ribnikar, Belgrade.
As it is every other working day, on ISLD our multimedia centre was jam-packed with pupils during all breaks and also during classes. Up stairs in the reading room fourth grade pupils were watching a film on a big screen about The First Serbian Rebellion, as part of prepartions for the upcoming excursion. Second grade pupils were in the multimedia centre learning French through karaoke and in the big reading room the librarian was introducing to first grade pupils the varieties of possibilities that a library can offer. Not even the computers remained unused. The youngest pupils were occupied with games and drawing, and those older were searching for important information on the Internet and preparing for classes. Is there a better way to celebrate The International School Library Day!

Serbia

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Slovenia

From Alja Bratusa and Natasa Kustrin Tusek, representing the Section of School Librarians at Union of Associations of Sloven Librarians, and Slovene School Librarians Association.
Slovene school libraries in primary and secondary schools have joined the 9th celebration of ISLD for the first time. In the first part of October they are listing ideas of how to celebrate ISLD at study meetings organised by The National Education Institute all over Slovenia. On 22nd October they will organise different activities at schools. The forum that is organised on The National Education Institute's web site gives an opportunity to librarians to meet and share ideas. Basic information about ISLD in Slovene is accessible on Slovene School Librarians Association web site. Students can also get information about the competition for the best logo for The Slovene School Library Association.

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