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International School Library Month, October 2011
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IASL's Picture Gallery of School Libraries. Submissions are welcome!
Getting Started: Ideas and Procedures for starting a School Library Association or Section
International School Library Month 2008
Literacy and Learning in your School Library
The theme for 2008 has been translated into several languages -- Download the PDF file for further information.
What people are doing for ISLM 2008
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From Sanja Galic, BA, librarian and chairwoman of the Croatian Association of School Librarians
On the occasion of the International Day of School Libraries, Croatian Association of School Librarians in cooperation with Education and Teacher Training Agency organized the conference Librarians introduce their partners.
The conference took place in Nova Club Bookshop on October 27, 2008.
At the conference the following sessions were held:
- Education for the use of school library (Jasmina Lovrincevic, PhD)
- International cooperation of school librarians and schools. (Sanja Galic, BA and a librarian; chairwoman of the Croatian Association of School Librarians).
Furthermore, experience of school librarians was shared:
- Cooperation of T. Brezovacki High School and Naestved High School Denmark (Jadranka Juric, BA and a librarian)
- Students' posters from the School for textile, design and applied art (Ivica Nikic, BA and a librarian)
- Students' achievements in the librarian group in Mladost Primary School (Ljiljana Sakic, BA and a librarian)
- S.S. Kranjcevic appearance in calligraphy (Snjezana Sulentic , BA and a librarian)
- In the beginning was a word – students' posters from the Vocational school of Construction and Geodesy (Hrvoje Mesic, BA and a librarian, with his students).
The conference was rounded up by a workshop Creative fairytale writing (Nada Poturicek, BA and a librarian).
From Petar Buljevic, Librarian and Jagoda Cudic, English Language teacher, Elementary School "Josip Pupacic" Omis.
The library in our elementary school ''Josip Pupacic'' is a place where also ''Children's theatar Harlekin'' works, and the theatar leader is our school librarian Petar Buljevic. There was a performance of the play ''The Wizard from OZ'' and the audition for the next play '' Little Prince''.
The library of our school had organized an expert's gathering – 94 librarians in order to improve our work and exchange experience.
The library also organises literary meetings and promtions. We had a promation of the novel ''Who is still afraid of the hero'' written by our famous contemporary novelist Juliana Matanovic, professor at the Faculty of Philosopy in Zagreb.
There was also multimedial lecture on the occasion of 500 years since the birth of our renaissance writer Marin Drzic.
From Eva von Jordan-Bonin, Head of School Library Department, Frankfurt Public Library.
The School Library Division of the Public Library in Frankfurt/Germany, which manages 68 school libraries in the city, is participating again in the International School Library Month. Actually we will have a school library week from October 27th to October 31st this year.
"School Library - This Is Where It Happens!" is the theme of the School Library Week in Frankfurt am Main / Germany. The week will be under the patronage of the city's Mayor Jutta Ebeling, who will inaugurate the week October 27th.
For almost 35 years, the School Library Department supports schools in organizing school libraries, and provides various offers to promote reading and to advance media skills. The Department works closely with teachers and many volunteers. School libraries in Frankfurt are well-established and have become indispensable to the schools. Reason enough to celebrate!
Our "School Library Week 2008"
- features the various functions of a state-of-the-art school library in daily school life
- introduces the public to the commitment of many dedicated individuals in school libraries
- offers suggestions and encourages exchange
82 events in over 40 schools will provide an insight to the variety of the work of school libraries in Frankfurt schools. Interested individuals are invited to come and find out more and to join the events.
To get an impression you can view the comprehensive program here (in German!) [PDF file].
From Sharat Pavate, Head - Library Resource Center, Sharad Pawar International School.
We marked the International School Library Month by organising a good book fair with the help of Scholastic Book publishers for three days starting from 6th to 8th of this month.
From Anna Kagedal, Kodaikanal International School
As I am new in the school library world and learning my job at an international school, we have kept celebrations of ISLM moderate, but still it has been very appreciated among the students and staff.
We have simply asked the students to submit their top 5 wishes for novels that they would like to read in the library, or simply their top 5 novels. From that we are going to make a Kodaikanal International School Top 10 list. All books on that list will be purchased by the library if they are not already available. Since our school is in a very isolated place, students don't have ready access to literature outside the school library at all. And there has not been an imitative like this in years. So even if it is a small thing, it is appreciated. And we would probably not have done it at this time if it wasn't for ISLM. Middle School students have also created badges and bookmarks, and elementary school is doing a read-a-thon to raise money for a local village school.
From Madhu Bhargava, Dean of Libraries, G.D.Goenka World School, Sohna-Haryana.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL LIBRARY WEEK @ G.D.GOENKA WORLD SCHOOL, INDIA (OCT.13-18TH 2008)
Never before!
Truly International!
Go look for wild Books!
Vote for your favorite book!
Literacy and Learning @ your library!
Read to succeed!
13th October morning enveloped the G D Goenka School with enthusiasm and enigma!
Large artistic posters welcomed everyone in the school at strategic points.
The week began with a special symbolic ceremony of lighting the traditional lamp by the Academic Director, Mr. Satinder Kumar, The Principal, Mrs. Neeta Bali, The vice Principal, Mr. Vijaymohan Pokhriyal and myself.
The International School Library Week marked the beginning of Reading Movement in the School. The leaders of the school encouraged the student audience to understand the magnanimous value of Reading in our life. The quote, “Reading maketh a man…” surely stimulated the young brains to gear up to take the challenge.
The principal sent waves of enthusiasm and curiosity by introducing “One Book challenge”, a strategic Reading Program for the whole school.
As awareness raising about resources availability in the library, a brochure, “Leisure Books for New Readers” along with a badge, “To Succeed you must Read” for the whole school community. There were surprise ‘RR’ (Regular Readers) awards for eight students.
For four days students put up well structured assemblies on Malaysian, Indian, Korean and Canadian literature showcasing authors of young adult literature. Vancouver Public Library pictures and programs were much appreciated. Special thanks to Mr. Gerald Brown who took me on a tour while I was with him in Canada in August.
Altogether 21 events, contests, shows, workshops, assemblies engulfed the whole school for four days followed by a Book Fair on the 18th.
I will mention and put up pictures of the activities which were loved by one and all.
- Disneyland puppet show.
- Reading Temperature contest.
- Oh! I am out of the Book!
- Anger Management workshop.
- Assembly World Literature: Oh! Canada
From Mona Shah, Librarian, Zydus School for Excellence, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
A very happy ISLM to you all! The celebration has been spread across throughout the month of October.
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude towards our principal, Mr. M L Pauly, who has supported us through and through and has provided us space & encouragement to carry out the activities with great enthusiasm and spirit.
Students from class I to VII as well as school teachers & parents were involved in various ISLM celebrations. They were a part of a project called “Soft board Competition: which was conducted for class I to V.
Different themes were given to each class :
Class I Fairy Tales
Class II Fable Stories
Class III Moral Stories
Class IV Folk tales from India
Class V Folk tales from out side India
The judging was done by some of our most creative teachers.
We also had yet another class activity for class I, II & III wherein they were asked to draw their favorite characters & also make a new cover page for any lady bird book read by them...
For classes VI & VII we had book presentations conducted during their library periods by my colleague. Ms Rashmi Kumbar and myself.
Last but not the least, we also had a Special Assembly for classes I – V which was the climate of the celebrations. The whole show was for about an hour where each class got an opportunity to present something. The items were as follows:
Class I Recitation
Class II Parts of the book
Class III Short skit in Hindi
Class IV Enormous Crocodile(An Act) & Roald Dahl
Class V A Akbar & Birbal (A famous Indian folk tale was enacted)
Class V B Worth of salt (A skit)
It was truly a fun filled learning experience...
From Mrs Rashmi Kumbar, Librarian, Librarian, Zydus School for Excellence, Ahmedabad
Our ISLM celebrations began in the first week of October with different activities for different classes. Our principal, M L Pauly announced soft board decoration competition based on the theme of stories/books and reading for classes I to V. Class I decorated their class soft boards on the theme of fairytales while class II chose animal stories. Class III decoration was based on moral stories. Class IV went for folktales of India while class V explored folktales from outside India. It was a treat to the eyes and appeared as if all the stories had come alive in the form of puppets, cutouts, posters etc. This actually fostered teamwork among students and saw quite a few enthusiastic parents who partnered in this process and the role of the class teacher was appreciable. The library was probably the most jammed place and the traffic had to be manned as children jetted in and out, looking for various storybooks and art books to out beat their friends in decorating their respective classes. We adopted the ISLM theme posted to suite our celebrations by involving class III students.
The judges had a hard time selecting the winners. So, they went in for various awards like 'Most Informative', 'Visually Appealing' and such other categories. Thus, most classes won in one category or the other. During the ISLM month, class I and II students celebrated their favourite books by identifying the main character and designed hanging mobiles of them! Class III students designed book covers of their favourite books. Class IV chose to present Panchantantra stories in the form of posters. Class V students enacted a few stories that they had read while class VI students had a book presentation competition. Students of class VII prepared informative and humorous bio-data of their favourite characters. Class VIII formed table teams and discussions on various topics like - Should we have photocopying facilities in the libraries, having coffee lounges in the library, why should one read classics, why should one read biographies and on whether we should increase our graphic novel collection. The outcome of the discussions was quite interesting.
We concluded our celebrations of ISLM on 22nd Oct '08 with a special assembly for and by the students of class I to V, since the students of classes VI to XI were taking their mid term exams. There were around 7 items put up by the students. Miss Pranali Bhatt of class IV spoke about ISLM and its importance while Pranav Thakkar of class V anchored the show. 12 students of class I recited a poem on books and Class II students shared information as to what information different parts of the books give us. Class III students enacted a small play in hindi. Class IV students enacted the story The Enormous Crocodile. Class V students put up two plays based on King Akbar and Birbal the Clever. The highlight of the special assembly was the surprise parade of story book characters like Gingerbread man, Winnie the Pooh, Little Mermaid, Peter Rabbit, Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarfs, etc. It delighted the children to see their favourite characters on stage marching to a special tune and blowing kisses at them. It was indeed a grand closing ceremony as we all took our Diwali festival break of 10 days and will join back to welcome winter and begin our second session of this academic year. Overall it was a very happening month at our library with special rewards to students and parents who crossed reading100 books and showed extraordinary interest in reading books and using library.
My heartfelt thanks to my principal Mr. M L Pauly for encouraging us and extending his support for the cause of the library and its mission, to all the enthusiastic teachers for being a part of the celebrations and my wonderful colleague, Mrs. Mona Shah who coordinated the special assembly and many other events. Looking forward for many more such ISLM Celebrations!
From Meena Jain, Librarian, G.D. Goenka PublicSchool, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
We celebrated International School Library Month (ISLM) in a big way. Here is the brief description of the activities we organized for the ISLM.
International Bookmark Exchange Project – Our partner is Lam Tin Methodist School in Hong Kong, China . We participated with 180 students from classes 3 to 8 in this project. Our bookmarks were highly appreciated and shown by the Lam Tin School on their school TV campus to stimulate the students to beautify their bookmarks.
Library week – We celebrated our library week from October, 20 -23.
The list of activities and events for the library week include Book Review,
Bookmark Making, Story Writing, Draw and Describe Favorite Book character,
Picture Composition, Dialogue Writing, Author Profile, Ad Making, Quizzes,
Film Show etc. The winners of these events will be given prizes in the morning assembly.
Workshop on Reading – To inculcate reading habits among the young children,
an interactive workshop on reading habits was organized with the help of
Ms. Monisha Gupta, a consultant with ‘Times of India’ and ‘British Council’.
Book Fair – To stimulate the love for books and reading in our students we organized a book fair with the help of Scholastic and Britannica book Publishers with various fun filled activities for five days in our school campus.
Readers of the Year – To give recognition to our ‘Good Readers’ and motivate ‘New Readers’, there were “Readers of the Year” award for our 20 good readers.
To sum up we surely succeeded in celebrating ‘International School Library Month’ with a big bang. Every one could see the waves of enthusiasm, curiosity, joy and happiness in the whole school.
From Rachmawati, Librarian, Al Kausar Boarding School, West Java.
I and some librarians of secondary and high schools in Sukabumi have planned the following activities for introducing and celebrating ISLM:
- School Librarian Gathering and discussion on Information Literacy. This event will be held in Hayatan Thoyyibah Boarding School on 25 October, 2008. About 40 librarians were invited to this event.
- Competitions:
Bulletin board making competition for High school students.
Bookmark making Competition for secondary school students.
These competitions will highlight the whole celebration. The activities will he held in SMA 3 Sukabumi. There will be an opening ceremony, a happening art and the exhibition of the work of the participants. About 130 students form 30 school will participate in these activities.
The organizer of the activities:
Rachmawati – Librarian, Al Kausar Boarding School
Heri Saeful Bahri – Librarian, SMA Hayatan Thayyibah
Heni Fauzia – Librarian, SMA Al Bayan
Teti Kurniati – Librarian, SMA 1 Sukabumi
Esa Fatwati - Teacher Librarian, SMA 1 sukabumi
Jajat – Assistant Librarian, SMA 1 Parungkuda
Maman Herman – Librarian, SMA 3 Sukabumi
From Lee M. Maguilang, Teacher-Librarian, Sekolah Global Indo-Asia, Batam, Indonesia
- Bookmark designing from the theme for years 3-4
- Poster making from the theme for years 5-6
- Story telling or reading from volunteer parents to elementary pupils.
- Story telling or reading from secondary students (as learning engagement in their English class) to elementary pupils.
- Story games in the library
- Interlibrary loan of story books with our sister school.
- All outcomes will be posted on library bulletins on Oct. 27-31, 2008.
Stories may be in English or Bahasa Indonesia. And story time is during the Library Schedule of each class.
From Yuvencia Yunita, Research Skills teacher gr. 7-9, Cita Hati Senior School Surabaya
I recently participated in a Training-the-Trainers in Information Literacy, and have been encouraged to promote the skills in my school. An immediate action I made with the support of my school was adding a link to our school website about information seeking strategies that have been designed to meet our needs here. It is expected that library sessions will become more effective as our students can learn by themselves from the link steps of managing information, and add creativity to expand their understanding about their lives.
Happy International School Library Month, and best regards from Surabaya!
From Luisa Marquardt
Literacy and Learning at your School Library - International School Library Month (ISLM) 2008
Experts will take part in this seminal meeting and contribute about roles and functions of the school library in the field of many literacies (reading, writing, library, media, communication etc.) and in the learning process. This ISLM 2008 initiative is valid as professional development for school and library professionals and as internal training for academica students. A certificate of attendance will be given at the end of the meeting.
Promoted by: Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Faculty of Education, LIS, in collaboration with Information Resource Center U.S. Embassy Rome - Office of Public Affairs
Where: Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, P.zza Repubblica 10, 2° floor
Date: 17 ottobre
Links: http://www.uniroma3.it | http://ilpianetalibro.sbn.it/meselibro2008/index.php?controller=ricerca&action=read&id=2062
From Loredana Perego, Titolo della sua posizione insegnante scuola secondaria I°, Scuola secondaria I° G.G. Trissino, I.C.11 Vicenza
- Book-line, la Mostra del libro itinerante (fulcro scientifico)
- Open day library, programmata per l'ultima settimana di ottobre 2008, con apertura della biblioteca al territorio
- Concorsi promossi sul sito www.rbsvicenza.org
Last updated 6 November 2008 (KSB)