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International School Library Month 2009

School Libraries: The Big Picture

The theme for 2009 has been translated into several languages -- Download the PDF file for further information.

What people are doing for ISLM 2009

Australia | Canada | Croatia | India | Indonesia | Ireland | Pakistan | Poland | Portugal | Romania | Russia | Saudia Arabia | Slovak Republic | South Africa | Turkey| Ukraine | USA |

Pakistan

From Ms. Farhat Jabeen, Librarian, Happy Home School
I am a librarian at Happy Home School, Karachi, Pakistan. We are celebrating International School Library Day each year since 2004. The Heads, teachers and students participate enthusiastically in this event.

Brief outline of the ISLM activity:

  • Assembly presentations on ‘World with out Libraries’ from 26th to 31st October.
  • Class bulletin boards to be decorated on the theme of International School Library Month.
  • All grades to design book marks.
  • Book Review Competition amongst teachers.
  • Movie session Goldilocks& three Bears for grade II students.
  • Some Library skills development based activities:
    Grade III: Design your favorite character of any story book.
    Grade IV: Fun with Content of Books.
    Grade V: Dictionary Game.
    Grade VI to VII: Fun with Book Index.
    Grade VIII: How to refer to Encyclopedia?
  • As part of library improvement plan a workshop on ‘Library Skills Development’ was conducted by Ms. Farhat Jabeen for the librarians of other HHS campuses on 29th July 2009.
  • A workshop on ‘The Role of Library in Effective Teaching’ was conducted by Mr. Noor Uddin Merchant, Vice president of Pakistan Library Automation Group, for the heads, librarians & teachers at the Society Campus on 30th July 2009. For details: http://www.happyhome.edu.pk/admin/anmviewer.asp?a=301&z=4
  • Grade IV and V students to visit Paramount Bookshop on October 26, 2009 to participate in the selection of books for the school library.
  • Grade VIII students to visit Oxford University Press on October 27, 2009.
  • Secondary students to participate in the Quranic Quiz on October 29, 2009.
  • Skit ‘Treasure in the library’ to be presented by the Secondary students on October 29, 2009.
  • Talk Show: Secondary students to invite some parents whose children take many books from the school’s library and take their comments as what benefit did their children /they got from reading them October 29, 2009.
  • Poster Competition on October 29, 2009.
  • Book Fair: October 29 and 30, 2009.
  • Display of student’s work. October 30, 2009.

From Amtul Sajjad, Regional Librarian South, Beaconhouse School System, Karachi
The International School Library Month was celebrated on 5th. October 2009 to 29th. October 2009 in different branches of Beaconhouse School System. In my belief the vital role of school librarian is to directly interact with students and encourage them to learn and explore books and develop reading habit and help them to get high achievements in their lives. School Libraries help teachers to teach and children to learn.

During this period students involved in different activities - Made Book marks, Wrote fairy tales, made posters of different characters and painted their favorite stories, wrote biographies of Authors and Book Fair, visited other libraries, students of O Level’s classes visited Bookshops/Publishers to select books for their libraries. Read out information on different topics in morning assembly etc.

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Poland

From Iwona Cymerman, School Librarian
We are a team of school librarians from Primary School with Integrated Classrooms in Siedlce. This year we decided to join in the ISLM October celebrations and started with some activities that resulted in an exhibition. We want to help our yound readers to enter the world of books and discover that books are alive and can still amaze us. We enclose a few pictures that help you to see our exhibition. (Iwona Cymerman, Ewa Pawluczuk, Bozena Mozdzen and Anna Terlikowska).

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Portugal

From Manuela Baptista, teacher librarian and school library coordintor, Escola Basica 2,3 de Rio Tinto No.2
Web link: http://bibliotecando.zip.net/

During the International School Library Month the school library at our school wants to celebrate the occasion by promoting the following activities:

  • Participation in the IASL Bookmakrs Project (our students are actively taking part in the making of the bookmarks)
  • Contest for the creation of a new logo for the school library
  • Participation in the contest "There's life in the library" which consists in the creation of a report on our school library. The best report will be published in the Portuguese magazine, Visao Junior, and the team/class who has created the report will have the opportunity to visit the magazine's quarters. All the other reports will be available at Visao Junior's web site
  • Celebration of the International School Library Day (26 October)
  • Sending information to the local press.

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From Fátima Costa, librarian teacher and school library coordinator, from Escola S/3 Dr. Bernardino Machado, Figueira da Foz
Web link: http://plataformadapalavra.blogspot.com

Our school has celebrated the Internacional School Library Day with the following activities which involved our community:

  • "There’s life in the library" – exhibition of activities held last year during de school library month
  • "Library pins" – 12-15 year-old students made very creative School Library Pins with the art teachers in the school hall.
  • "Jugglers in the Library”- simultaneously with the celebrations of the School’s Day, the Jugglers from “Assembleia Figueirense” with a great energy have delighted our teachers and students with their enthusiastic stories.

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From Celeste Oliveira, Teacher Librarian,School Library of Escola Secundária D. Dinis-Lisboa
To celebrate this day, the school library worked out three themes according to the students’ age levels and type of activities.

We would like to emphasize the decoration of the library entry with strips on the floor saying "All roads lead to the Library" and an oriental scenery to seduce the audience.

During the morning thirty children from the local kindergarten were received and participated in the activities imagined and developed by students and teachers of the Assistants to Infancy Professional Course. The kids were received and watched a puppet theatre which broke the ice and allowed them to adapt themselves to the room. Afterwards, some students worked out a short story ”Os Estranhóides”, which increases their creative imagination once the kids were invited to build and draw the characters of the story. Last, the 9th grade group developed another activity with the children, by building a collective puzzle. At lunchtime, in the school canteen, students performed a play inspired in the short story “The Pregnant Pot”. This activity was developed by the body expression group and a teacher. In the afternoon we had a reading marathon with several age levels students.
To the evening classes we opted for a more suggestive topic: “One Thousand and One Nights”… in which both students and teachers read diverse texts, being some of them, of their own authorship.

The success of this initiative was evident and confirmed by the requests for its further extension.

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From Eduarda Pinheiro on behalf of Maria Cristina Souza-Soares, Teacher and School Librarian, Escola Basica 2 E 3 Ciclo M Manuela SA, S. Mamede Infesta, Matosinhos
In order to celebrate the ISLM in our school, we organized several activities. Here below you may find a brief presentation:
* ISLM promotion in school (posters and bookmarks)
* Library Quiz
* Exposition about "School: Past and Present"
* Bookmarks Contest
* Special edition of our library bulletin
* Publishing of "Concurso Nacional de Leitura", promoted by PNL.

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Last updated 30 October 2009 (KSB)