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International School Library Month 2009

School Libraries: The Big Picture

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What people are doing for ISLM 2009

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Romania

From Mariana Filip , documetary teacher at "Avram Iancu" School in Alba Iulia, Romania.
We would like to join the program of School libraries. Our school is located in Alba Iulia, district Alba, country Romania.
We want you to know our ideas about what we proposed for these activities:

  1. We believe we need to know more about school libraries by specifying its role and missions. We also believe it is important to remember the basic principles of the library. Some children will present the materials in French and English.
  2. We intent to achieve, together, with the students different types of bookmarks. Then, they will be displayed for exhibition.
  3. We want to find differences and similarities between a School Library and a Documentation Center for information.
  4. The project Elements of the book. Children need to know the elements of a book and how to arrange a book on the shelves.

From Gianina Barb, the coordinator (person in charge) school librarian, Romania.
Our school is Vasile Goldis School, Alba Iulia city. Students age level: 11-15 years old. Estimated number of students involved: 60 to 120
A list of the activities that are going on in our school:

  • reading story sesion
  • drawings with your favourite scenes from books
  • exibition with books & publishing houses, bookmarks with different motifs
  • listening novels/ books on audio CD
  • questionaires related to general knowledge about the books, writers, literary friends
  • celebrating Holocaust`s Day - watching movies
  • organizing a visit at the Public Library "Lucian Blaga" in our city
  • to write a composition about my ideal library

Main organizers and responsible persons:
BARB GIANINA - Librarian
BANEA ALINA - English Teacher
TEACHERS FROM THE ROMANIAN DEPARTMENT & MODERN LANGUAGES
LANCRANJAN FLOARE - Geography Teacher
RIPAN ALEXANDRA - School Psychologist
MUNTEAN LIANA - French Teacher
GIURCA CORNELIA - Informatics Teacher

From Silviu Carpinisianu School in Sebes, Romania.
My name is Codruta Rahovean and I teach English at "Silviu Carpinisianu" School in Sebes, Romania. Together with our librarian, Elena Rosca, we decided to organize some activities for ISLM in our CDI (Centre de documentation et d'information). Mrs Elena Rosca will be responsible for these activities.
I'll share some activities we are thinking of doing:

  • reading class in the CDI: the students are given a bibliography. From this list of books, they have to choose 10 books they like and then fill in a worksheet with different data about the books.
  • The Dictionaries in the CDI: the students will learn about the different types of dictionaries, then they will have to look up for information by working with the dictionaries available
  • Exhibit with library and reading-connected narrative texts and poems
  • Exhibit with the most recent books purchased by the CDI
  • Arranging books on shelves
  • Drawings on the topic: My ideal library

From Hajnal Toth, Librarian, Professor and Titus Fizesan, Professor Documentary, Romania.
SCHOOL OF ORGANISATION: "GHEORGHE SINCAI" FLORESTI, CLUJ
A brief outline of the ISLM activities:

  1. The Image of the Characters from the stories we read. The pupils (1 - 4th form) draw characters from the books they have read, then post them in the exhibition space of the library.
  2. List with the titles of five representative books for Romanian literature. Together with the teachers of Romanian language, forms 5-8 create lists with respective titles.
  3. Posters making. Library committee of students realize pictures on the occasion of the ISLM.
  4. Book fair - "Dacia" editors expose their book offert within our school
  5. Informing, by school magazine about ISLM. School magazine "Luceafarul" will host a briefing of the ISLM
  6. Book marks- cross stitch. During the four weeks of October, groups of pupils make cross stitch
  7. Reconditioning the damaged books. Children of the 5th form, together with the librarian glue damaged/old books.

From Mirela Barb, Librarian, The National Colege "Lucian Blaga" Sebes, Alba county, Romania.
For this International Days of School Libraries, we thought to have an open class about famous quotations. The person who suggested the activity are librarien Mirela Barb together with Ana Maria Radiciu , English teacher and Maria Balomirean, French teacher.mThe quotations will be read and interpreted in Romanian, English as well as, in French by the pupils from XIIG, XIIH, XIIA and XIIF classes.

From Dorina Fratila, Romania
Person in charge with the project: Muntean Viorica - school librarian
School name: Scoala cu Clasele I-VIII ,"Toma Cicisiu" Blaj, Alba - Romania
During the ISLM we are promoting the following activities in our school:

  1. Promoting ISLM in school – posters
  2. School Library website design and launching: http://bibliotecascoliitomacocisiu.worspress.com
  3. Illustrating a famous English poem "The Library A Magic Place" and traslating it into Romanian
  4. Quotations about books, the importance of reading
  5. Visits to the school and town libraries
  6. "The Word Book Sounds Fine in Many Languages" – a multilingual dictionary in Power Point
  7. Book repairing and reconditioning
  8. "Bookmark project"- making bookmarks and taking part in a common project with a school in New Jersey

Main organizers and responsible persons:
Muntean Viorica – school librarian
Teachers and schoolmasters:: Fratila Dorina, Balau Mirela, Dulau Alina, Fratila Carolina, Isaila Simona, Ignat Felicia, Cipariu Gabriela

From Natalia Bardi, Librarian, "Scoala cu clasele I-VIII, Axente Sever", AIUD, ALBA, Romania
The activities were:

  1. "What do we read nowadays?"- book exhibition-coordinator - librarian Natalia Bardi
  2. "Our most loved hero-Harry Potter" - film screening-coordinator - English teacher Casandra Ioan
  3. "Autumn is here" - drawing exhibition-coordinator - primary school teacher Monica Bogdan
  4. "Let's get to know our school library"'- visit of the 1st graders to the library-coordinator - primary school teachers Otilia Han and Felicia Munteanu
  5. "I can create,too!''- paint-poems in English - coordinator - English teacher Aureliana Martin
  6. "Librarian for a day"- minicourse of biblioteconomy - coordinator - librarian Natalia Bardi
  7. "What icons say"- presentation of the Byzantine Icon,the stages of its making and icon miniexhibition-coordinators :Alexandru Iuga,librarian Natalia Bardi and primary scool teacher Rodica Petrutiu.
  8. "In The world of books"-collage exhibition in pertnership with Pupils' Club-coordinators: librarian Natalia Bardi and teacher Cristian Barb.

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From Onela Cimpean, Librarian, Scoala cu clasele I- VIII nr.1 Dej ( School No.1), Dej, Cluj County, Romania
Headmaster: Stela Adriana Ochian.

School No.1 wants to participate to this project doing various activities in order to determine the students of our school to discover the pleasure of reading. We also intend to make the school library a centre of interest for the little readers catching them in the magic world of the Romanian stories and novels.

On the 5th of November we celebrate the birth of our great writer Mihail Sadoveanu, that’s why our teachers appreciate a month of reading Sadoveanu’s works and making extra curricular activities related to this project.
On 22nd of October the 3rd grade students will prepare an interactive lesson at Romanian using the educational soft "D-l Trandafir" and then they will have an extracurricular activity based on modern methods, working in groups with the following actions:
1. creating drawings for each part of the story studied, a powerpoint presentation
2. re-telling the text based on the individual reading of the story, group discussions and matching the drawings with the parts of the story
3. role-play exercises on the story studied
4. watching the soft "Life and Work of M. Sadoveanu"

The students will participate in a drawing contest based on the studied theme which will be shown in the school festival hall. The students from the gymnasium, 8th form, who have to study the novel Baltagul for their national exam at Romanian language, will read individually the work and then in small groups of theatre select parts of the novel and play them on stage. The members of each 8th form classes will make teams that participate to a contest concerning the work mentioned. The movie "Baltagul' will be projected and it will be stopped in five key moments, the children being asked about the content of the story projected. The students will be given diplomas and the teachers will make an impact report of the entire project.

From Petre Damo, Technical High School of Aiud (that reads in Romanian: 'Colegiul Tehnic Aiud", Town of Aiud, Alba County, Romania
Person in charge with the project: Farca Victoria, High School librarian - Students age level: 15 – 19 years old - Estimated number of students involved: 60 to 100
Website: http://biblioctaiud.wordpress.com

Here below you may find a brief presentation of the activities we are to organize:

  1. Famous libraries in the world discovered through Chinese portrait game. Student in charge: Hadarean Ionel; teacher in charge: Ramona Buta;
  2. "Invitation to reading" – essay presentation. Student in charge: Sas Maria; teacher in charge: Ioana Moldovan;
  3. "L’univers merveilleux des livres" – essay presentation. Student in charge: Irimie Sergiu; teacher in charge: Elvira Diana Padurean;
  4. "Beautiful book, honour to the one who wrote you" role play. Teacher in charge: Antoneta Bratina;
  5. "The Great Painting" – report of 12th grade students; teacher in charge: Emese Szabo;
  6. "The Birth of Writing" – power point presentation. Student in charge: Sas Maria; teacher in charge: Veronica Ciortea;
  7. International Basic Vocabulary in six languages (part of 'Game and Learning' Comenius project). Students in charge from various classes; teachers in charge: Petre Damo, Ramona Humeniuc and others;
  8. "Romanian traditions" – exhibition of library posters. Teachers in charge: Cristina Bogdan and Ramona Humeniuc;
  9. Advertising the ISLM – exhibition of advertising items. Teachers in charge: Cristina Bogdan and Nicolae Pistol;
  10. "Soul Remedies" – power point presentation of world libraries. Student in charge: Marina Alexandra; teacher in charge: Veronica Ciortea;
  11. "School Library – past, present and future" – essay presentation. Student in charge: Popa Natalia; teacher in charge: Cosmina Tatar;
  12. Drawings for book cover-pages. Teachers in charge: Csilla Jenei and Maria Peter;
  13. Book exhibition by 'Dacia' Publishing House of Cluj-Napoca.

Main organizers:
Victoria Farca, High School Librarian, and prof Ramona Humeniuc

Teachers involved as collaborators:
Petre Damo, Ioana Moldovan, Elvira Diana Padurean, Ramona Buta, Antoneta Bratina, Veronica Ciortea, Augusta Ratiu, Nicolae Pistol, Emese Szabo, Cristina Bogdan, Aureliana Martin, Maria Peter, Csilla Jenei, Cosmina Tatar, and Demeus Irimie

Guests of Honour:
Sociologist Ioan Hadarig, director of ‘Liviu Rebreanu’ Cultural Centre;
Prof Jenica Satmarean, director of ‘Liviu Rebreanu’ Aiud Municipality Library;
Poet Ion Marginean
Poet Mircea Stancel
Dorel Lazar, journalist
Onisor Viorica, CCD librarian
Robert Gheorghe, ‘Unirea’ newspaper
Horatiu Mihai Josan, Mayor of Aiud

From Lucretia Birz , librarian, National College "Horea, Closca and Crisan" of Alba Iulia (Romania).

For International School Library Month we proposed to achieve the following activities:

  • Start Project "Travel in the world book". This project involves making bookmarks and essays on the role of books in my life
  • Organizing the contest: "know who read" - contest involving the two classes. It starts with the selection of books from the collection of CDI; students will choose a representative fragment. Selected quotes from a class will be hand machines for testing students in other class. Within each class will be established 4 groups, which try to identify the book from which the quotation was extracted. Winning group will be the one that has accumulated the highest number of points.
  • Granting qualification "most faithful reader"
  • "Aspirations to perfect" - exhibition of drawings by students.

From Professor Hajnal Toth, Librarian, "Georghe Sincai" School, Floresti, Cluj
Submitted a PowerPoint presentation [2.13 Mb PDF format] of the activities for ISLM.

From Camelia Mantarosie, Documentary teacher, "Mircea Eliade" Highschool, Intorsura Buzaului, Covasna County

1. Project team :
Manager: Nicolae Boian
Education consultant: Maria Badiu
Documentary teacher: Camelia Mantarosie
The head-teachers of all classes.

2. Number of participating students: more than 350 aged 14-19.
3. General objectives: evidencing the role and the importance of the school libraries in the education of youth, increasing the student’s interest in lecture, showing the importance of the lecture in the entire community, volunteering, advertising the school and the CDI etc.

In order to celebrate the International School Library Day a series of activities took place in our school in October.

1 October 2009 – ISLM was promoted in school (Posters, bookmarks)

1-25 October 2009 - “The book- a gift that you can open again and again” – Coordinator – Prof. Camelia Mantarosie
The activity was organised as a contest in which all the students in the school took part. Their aim was to convince the people from the town to donate books for the school library. The school received more than 1500 books, part of which will be donated for Christmas to another school in the area. The winners were the students from X B class (430 books) and their prize is a trip.

9 October 2009 – “The metaphors notebook” – Coordinators – Prof. Nitu Corina, Popica Mihaela, Potcovaru Radu
The students in the XIIth grade won prizes for the most representative quotes they selected for the books they read and also for the most significant arguments that sustained the importance of reading and literature.

15 October 2009 – “Six characters are looking for an author” – Coordinators – Prof. Popica Anca, Nesa Voichita, Daniela Bancila
In the “train station” of our high school a train with six characters from six different novels arrived. The characters were not able to find their creator- the author-who was in another carriage. The students in the XIth grade identified the characters and dramatised the end of the novel in another version.

23 October 2009 – “Do You still remember your childhood stories” – Coordinator – Prof. Bularca Maria
The students in the Xth grade put together a jigsaw (a part of a story) and dramatised the recognised stories.

23 October 2009 School play – “How did the librarian’s day start to be celebrated”– Coordinator – Prof. Mantarosie Camelia

23 October 2009 – “I create for your soul”– Coordinators– Prof. Suciu Laura , Iuliana Monica Muntean
This was the last activity celebrating the international school library day. The students in the IXth grade presented the books they have written and illustrated. Those were religious books advising people to tolerate and love more. The activity took place in the town’s cathedral were the donated book were also shown. We would like to thank our priest Ciprian Popica for all his support and for the great number of religious book donated to our library.

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From Cretu Maria, School Librarian, Romanian language teacher, "Vasile Alecsandri" National College, Bacau county.
Brief Outline of the ISLM activity: “Vasile Alecsandri” school has planned many activities which underlined the importance of this event that involved both teacher and student. We are content that through IASL programme we managed to share thoughts, ideas with schools from other countries and we succeeded in proving that our students valued books and reading as much as any other children around the world.

Activities in the International School Library Month:

  1. The thematic exhibition – The pages of thoughts;
  2. Book exhibition – Reading suggestions from youths;
  3. Art exhibition – School Libraries. The big picture.
  4. Rendezvous in the Land of Books. Presentations in Power Point and essays:
    - The Book Mark. Its history and evolution;
    - Book presentation: Don Trembath – The face at the window;
    Vivien Alcoock –The Tuesday café;
    - Libraries in images.
  5. “LecturAsii” (The Readers) – Reading Club – weekly meetings on Tuesday:
    - first session: the new members of the group;
    - the launch of the creative writing competition of the Reading Clubs;
    - reading suggestions for the club meeting 2009-2010;
    - reading suggestions for Book of the Year;
    - creative writing workshops;
    - brainstorming for the library logo.

In the course of these events the following teachers and students were involved:

Students ranging in age from 11 to 18:
Simina Cernat – 11 H;
Florina Nastase, Ana Maria Roman– 12 B;
Adina Apavaloaie, Andreea Antuca – 11G;
And others from 5th grade, 7th grade, 9C, 10A, 11H, 10B.

Teachers:
Maria Cretu (librarian);
Ramona Mocanu (Romanian language teacher);
Dana Aenculesei (Romanian language teacher);
Teona Codreanu (English teacher);
Nona Andrei (English teacher);
Lacramioara Nemes (Arts teacher);
Afrodita Timofte (Informatics teacher).

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From Oana Jianu, Librarian, Teacher Training Center “Gr. Tabacaru”
The school librarians from Bacau, Romania, celebrated ISLM for the third year. First of all, on 2nd October, as coordinator of school librarians from our county, I organized a meeting of school librarians (56 participants) on 2nd October. With this occasion, I distributed bookmarks, posters and flyers regarding the IASL and the ISLM. I also sent informative materials to the local newspapers promoting this important celebration (resulting 5 articles).

On the other hand, I coordinated again the Bookmark project. This year, 3 school librarians chose to take part in this project, involving student from their schools: Ligia Grosu (from “Miron Costin” Middle School Bacau), Denisa Imbrea (from “Ion Luca” Middle School Bacau and “Nicolae Iorga” Middle School Bacau) and Lacramioara Onea (from “George Enescu” Middle School Moinesti). Our partners this year were few schools from Pretoria, South Africa, the local coordinator there being Anna Brown.

All the school librarians promoted the ISLM in their schools, organizing exhibits and distributing flyers and bookmarks. But few of them decided to go on and organize some events also.

Lacramioara Onea, librarian from “George Enescu” Middle School Moinesti organized a poster contest (winner Pop Flaviu with his poster “Library – the land of Books”), an exhibit with bookmarks illustrating different scenes from books, storyreading programs, a contest for the most beautiful cover book. Ligia Grosu, librarian from “Miron Costin” Middle School Bacau, presented and started a new national project “Thousands of story heroes looking for a reader” destinated to school librarians, teachers and students from all over the country. Imbrea Denisa, librarian from “Ion Luca” and “Nicolae Iorga” Middle Schools, chose to involve her student in another national project “the Pleasure of Reading”, promoted by Minimax TV and the Asociation of Librarioans (ABR).

I was using the opportunity offered by this special celebration to promote, in my county and in some other counties, our recent involvement in the Campaing for the World`s Libraries. So, I gave presentations for school librarians from Bacau, Suceava and Vaslui, I created and distributed guides, posters, bookmarks and flyers. The first activities organized in Romania as part of this international campaign will happen in November.

From Iuliana Chihaia, primary school teacher at Secondary School Corocaiesti-Suceava, Romania.
We would like to join the program of School libraries.Together with our librarian, Mirela Bozomala, we decided to organize some activities for ISLM in our school.

A brief outline of the ISLM activities:

  • Promoting ISML in our school-posters making- coordinator- primary school teacher Iuliana Chihaia
  • Bookmark - making bookmarks-exhibition-coordinator- primary school teachers Florina Poenaru and Iuliana Chihaia
  • "Let's get to know our school library!"-coordinator -primary school teacher Mihaela Zaluschi
  • Reading and drawing-creating drawings for each part of the story studied, coordinator - primary school teacher Angelica Belciug
  • My favorite poet- recitation contest-coordinator - prof. Viorica Moisa
  • "We can create a book!"- exhibition with books made by students -coordinator -primary school teacher Mirela Bozomala
  • Wisdom thoughts about what a book means- creating posters- coordinator-English teacher Cristiana Maria Barbacaru
  • Reading and acting- theatre- coordinator-English teacher Cristiana Maria Barbacaru

We celebrated International School Library Month in October and the students had great fun. We learned many things!"If you can read this, thank a teacher!"

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From Luminita Bugan, Bibliotecar and Ing. Radu Aurel Verdes, Director, Grup Scolar de Chimie Industriala, Onca Mures, School Library
ACTIVITIES
1. Second Hand student- book fair
2. “The History of the Library” Festival
3. “TO READ OR NOT TO READ”- Essay Competition
4. Personal display of paintings and graphic art – Adrian Nicoara
5. Bookmarks competition
6. Group exhibition of drawings
7. Honorary dramatic moments dedicated to national poets and playwrites
8. Rewarding the pupils that have participated in the library activities

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Russia

From Ushinsky Academic Pedagogical Library
School librarians in Moscow (Russia) have gathered at Ushinsky Academic Pedagogical Library to exchange experiences with colleagues and organize the celebration of International School Library Day. Materials about achievements of school librarians abroad were used during the discussion. This information was taken from the diary of events which was published on the IASL site. The librarians shared stories about changes in their school libraries. They told their colleagues how they used the experience of school librarians from foreign countries. They said that they explore news about school libraries for ideas of how to improve their own work. They agreed to exchange messages about their activities. The celebrations of the International School Library Day in Russia were held on October, 26.

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From T.Poljakova
26 October 2009 Saint-Petersburg Academy of post-diploma pedagogical education held an official contest of school librarians named "BibliObraz - 2009", the part of the program of support and developing of reading in Saint-Petersburg for 2009-2011. Contest librarians presented their electronic reports about patterns of organizing of library work at schools, about the most successful forms and methods of attracting children to reading, about interaction of family, school and library new programs.

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From Olga Gorshkova, Vologda Institute of Development of Education
School librarians of Vologda region support International School Library Month and traditionally celebrate International School Library Day on 4th Monday of October. It is a great pleasure to be the part of international school librarianship.

This time our school librarians had lots of different activities. The most common and popular were thematic weeks of reading, devoted to works of various writers and poets, actions “We read together” (senior pupils read fragments of books for pupils of junior school), contests of drawings and essays ‘My favorite book character’. We plan more library activities in November together with Russian School Library Association.

Right in the beginning of October the special competition for school librarians of Vologda city was started. The purpose of the competition, “Multimedia presentation as promotional instrument of book and reading”, are to demonstrate creative IT works of school librarians and to refill collection multimedia resources, which could be used by all school librarians. The results will be announced at the beginning of December.

Best regards to colleagues from all other countries! Wish all school libraries will always be the centers of attraction!

From Korotneva N. S. Head of School Library, School Number 1259
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Last updated 7 November 2009 (KSB)