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School Libraries Have it All
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From Rashmi Kumbar, Teacher-Librarian, Adani Vidya Mandir, Ahmedabad Namaste! Wishing you all a Very Happy Diwali (A Festival of Lights & New Year too!) from the students and staff of Adani Vidya Mandir, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India! We celebrated International School Library Month in the week starting from 25th Oct’10 to 30th Oct’10 at Adani Vidya Mandir (A.V.M.).
Just to share something about our school, Adani Vidya Mandir is an initiative of Adani Foundation, a Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the Adani Group of Industries and set up with the objective of providing free education to meritorious students, coming from challenging economic background and to recognize and enable such students to reach the summit in their chosen fields.
The theme of this year’s ISLM ‘Diversity Challenge Resilience School Libraries Have it All’ was the base for our week long celebrations which included participation of students of all classes and the teachers. Our Principal Ms Vaishali Raut & Head Mistress Ms Priti Sakhadeo encouraged our ISLM celebrations and participated wholeheartedly.
On 25th Oct’10, Monday, Class IX students briefed us about the origin of ISLM, the objectives and purpose of celebrating it. Then they put on a skit on the story of Dick Whittington to the delight of the younger students of classes III & IV, apart from doing group projects on various contemporary topics using various references resources, magazines, newspapers, etc on 30th Oct’10.
Class VIII & VII students did a week long research on the reading quotient of the teachers and the students of AVM using questionnaire method and displayed it in the form of a banner titled ‘Librariana’ on 29th Oct’10!
Class VI students took an opportunity to explore the Newspaper as a valuable resource in the library and thus enlightened the entire school community on 26th Oct’10, regarding the different terms of newspaper like masthead, editing, column, feature, layout, article, reporter, leading reporters of India, etc. with practical display of the same.
Class V students participated in a quiz contest on 28th Oct’10, on the theme of ‘Libraries, Books & Stories’ in the morning assembly. It was exciting as the audience too got a chance to participate in the quiz. The quiz fever has caught up so much that students of each class are now busy making their own quiz banks using all possible resources from our library!
Class IV students put a talk show on 27th Oct’10, to which humourous characters in Indian Literature like Tenali Raman, Birbal, Mullah Nasruddin, Sheikh Chilli, Miya Fuski, Adukiyo-Dadukiyo, etc. were invited. Since it was multilingual, it was hilarious and students brought the roof down with their laughter.
The grand finale was held on 29th Oct’10 in which all the 80 students of class III, who are the youngest in our school, walked the romp with masks of story characters to an upbeat music which was a shop stopper of sorts to an array of our ISLM celebrations. Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella, Frankin, Little round bun, Clifford, Jack, Wolf, Thumbelina, Peter, and many others took part in the fashion show and were encored many times!
A few teachers spoke to the students on their reading habits, their favourite books and their use of the library on each of these days, thereby adding value to the whole program. They spoke on Lance Armstrong’s autobiography, The Bhagvad Gita, Helen Keller, Matilda, etc. and also how reading has redefined their lives and profession.
Our 2nd ISLM celebration was sort of special as we re-adopted S R Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science in the context of our School Library, and gave ourselves a core set of values which we will abide by throughout. With a promise to make reading & books an integral part of our school, we once again wish you all a very Happy ISLM 2010!
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From Inez Kinanthi, School Librarian, SMPN 8 Kota Tangerang Selatan
This is our first year to follow the activities on ISLM 2010. It was middle October, when I knew about ISLM at the first time, and I’m so excited to hear about this. Luckily our headmaster agreed and fully support with my proposal for joining ISLM and makes several agenda for only three days. Our school starts the event from 25th – 27th October, though this is such a sudden event and a short time to promote it, the enthusiasm of students have appeared in every activities day by day.
Here are three project on three days-
October, 25th 2010 - Bookmark project
Students were so happy for doing bookmarks. All material were prepared by school library, students are free to make their bookmark in many shape as their wants, but mostly they made a cute girl face. And the day after that, they could bring theirs and use it for daily. Maybe because its cute shape, some students whom not follow this project were so jealous and they ask me for repeat the bookmark project again.
October, 26th 2010 - Discuss about school library
There are only seventeen students who joined our second activities, but in only a few persons joined the discuss, the discussion flow in effectively. Firstly I told them a little bit history about our library, then I continued with explaining the real condition here. After that I gave them chance to speak about their opinion and suggestion. They told about what they want, giving suggestion about rules, how to improve reading habits, even they let me know how suppose librarian treat them as a readers. For me, it was such a good time to discuss with them.
October, 27th 2010 - Meet the author
Luckily our school has a little author, named Serenada Langit. She has already written a book titled 3G, three girls. Published by FLP (Forum Lingkar Pena). From 2 days before, the last day we had more audiences. They wanna saw their own friend who still sit in seven grade and today she came as guest star. Opened by our vice principal (Mr Moh Nawawi,S.Pd) , Langit continued the event with introducing her self. Then the event went just like a talkshow, I asked several things about her book, and she explained it. Time was given for the audience who wanna ask to Langit. They asked about how the story goes, where she got the inspiration for writing that book, her motivation behind her book and etc. In the end of session, Langit share to us some tips in writing, and also she told us about how her reading habits brings her to became an author, “Because you will get new things (knowledge) in every paper you read” said Langit.
Our principal, Mrs Endang Koeswarini, M.M was so supports for this event and she also hopes the library could grow and always better than yesterday. Last, here are her hopes for our library in the future:
- Library will be ‘the real’ heart of school
- Library will be the knowlwdge center of the school
- Library will be the place where all of school folks (not only students but also the teachers and all staff) spend their spare time for reading.
From Breege O'Brien, Teacher-librarian, Scoil Damhnait Secondary School, Achill Island, Westport, Co. Mayo.
Once again this year we are participating in the bookmark exchange project and we are delighted to be doing exchanges with groups in Croatia, Romania and the USA. We are also running a reading challenge - How High Can we Read? - for the month of October. Students and staff are participating and we have been getting in a lot of extra reading this month. The final tally will be determined on Nov. 2nd when students return to classes after mid-term. The reading challenge is being run in conjunction with the MS Readathon which is held every year in Ireland between mid Oct. and mid Nov. and in which our junior students participate annually.
From Vittoria Caldarola, Istituto Comprensivo Roiano-Gretta, Trieste
Our school has participated in the International School Library Month every year for the last 5 years. A large poster with the ISLM logo is displayed at the entrance of the library for the whole month of October together with a notice advertising the activities that have been organised.
The following activities took place this year on the 26th October and attracted the active involvement of both primary and secondary school pupils.
A special reading session was held for the youngest pupils of the primary school in which the presenter was a local theatre actress. She gave readings of children’s rhymes by Gianni Rodari, an Irish folk tale, and a short story by Nicoletta Costa, a well-known Italian illustrator. The pupils were absolutely thrilled.
An event entitled Actors for a day (Attore per un giorno) was organised for the lower secondary school (aged 11-14). Excerpts from books of different genres were chosen and acted out by pupils. Their audience included teachers, other pupils, and a special guest, Luciano Comida, who is a local writer and was a student at the school some decades earlier. The pupils were helped in their preparation by the teacher librarian and by a theatre actress.
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Last updated 18 December 2010 (XYZ)