First International School Library Day

18 October 1999

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With customers in more than 70 countries, Winnebago Software is honored to join in celebrating the work of school librarians throughout the world on International School Library Day.
We'll also acknowledge International School Library Day on our website.
I hope to meet you at the AASL/IASL conference next month. Winnebago is sponsoring the AASL All-Conference Festival just before the IASL Auction--or perhaps I'll meet you during the IASL meeting at which the IASL Progressive School Library Media Award will be presented.
I'm looking forward to reading some of the "A day in the life" stories..
Best regards,
Karen
(Karen Sibenaller, Winnebago Software Company, Onalaska, WI 54650, USA.

Dear School Librarians,

On behalf of myself and all members of the CPAW (Computer Pals Across the World) global educational network, I extend special greetings on this International School Library Day.

From 1983 when Computer Pals Across the World was established, libraries have always been a focal point of our network both in schools and the local communities as they have provided in most cases the only access to the Internet and hence the CPAW network for students and citizens. In many places this is still so today, as the librarian remains custodian of the Internet. Thus, without the support and cooperation we have had from librarians over the years, it would not have been possible for many students and citizens (such as seniors) to share in the activities which the CPAW network offers. Sincere thanks to you all.

The CPAW network is honoured to have Dr L.Anne Clyde as the Librarianship and Information Literacy specialist on its Academic Board. On this occasion it is particularly appropriate for me to pay tribute to Dr Clyde's major contribution to CPAW over many years and express sincere thanks for her dedication, integrity, professionalism and energy in all that she does.

I see that International School Library Day will provide not only a focus on how libraries have been a support structure over the years for CPAW, but will highlight how librarians have been and continue to be the pioneers in the effective use of information technology for literacy and learning as we move into the next millennium.

Yours in friendship.
Dr Malcolm R.Beazley AM
CPAW Global Educational Network
Faculty of Education, The University of Sydney
Sydney 2006 Australia

Greetings to our school library colleagues around the world from the Canadian School Library Association. We are delighted and very excited by IASL's initiative to declare the third Monday of every October as International School Library Day. It is a great idea that will help provide wide attention and a major focus on the efforts of groups like IASL, plus bring everyone together around the goals of fully developed school library programs.

The Canadian School Library Association has taken a leadership role in school librarianship in Canada for over 25 years and we are a partner with several other library organizations in an alliance of library professionals called the Canadian Library Association. Together we speak for all types of library services and programs and we lobby for improved libraries in all sectors of Canadian society. It is my pleasure to be President of CSLA for the 1999-200 year and I congratulate the International School Library Day organizers on a job well done.

I have spread the word widely about the International School Library Day program and I hope many of my colleagues will send you a message of support and tell a story about their school library experiences. I wish you well on this project and on your up-coming conference in Birmingham Alabama.

Yours truly,
Ray Doiron, Ph.D.
President, Canadian School Library Association

Last Updated 19 April 2003 (LAC)