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Regional conferences
February 8-9, 2012 --Information for joint IASL and ZimLA regional conference, Masiyephambili College, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

February 27-29, 2012 -- EMMILE in libraries (and beyond) - European Meeting on Media and Information Literacy Education, Milan, Italy. It incorporates the IASL Regional Meeting - Europe, the IFLA SLRC Midterm Meeting, the IASL-IFLA Joint Meeting.

April 26-27, 2012 -- Regional conference on school librarianship -- Bacolod Pavillion Hotel, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. It aims to bring together school librarians in the region to establish and strengthen relationships and support regional cooperation of school librarians.

IASL business
Call for nominations for the Board -- Nominations close April 1, 2012.

Publications
New Global Publication on School Librarianship: IASL-IFLA Joint publication
Global Perspectives on School Libraries: Projects and Practices
The publication is edited by Luisa Marquardt, Director Europe for IASL and Dianne Oberg, former editor of School Libraries Worldwide.
Special arrangement for IASL-members: the same price as IFLA-members. The book will be for sale at both conferences and the satellite event. The official launch of the publication will take place at the IFLA-IASL Satellite meeting, ‘School Libraries: Best Practices for e-Learning' in Kingston, Jamaica on August 5, at the Opening Session of the 40th IASL Annual Conference ‘School Libraries: Empowering the 21st Century Learner’ in Kingston on August 7, 2011 as well as the Open Session of the School Libraries and Resource Centres section of IFLA ‘Student access to new and emerging technologies’ during the WLIC in San Juan, Puerto Rico on August 16, 2011.

Call for papers -- School Libraries Worldwide. Theme: International Perspectives on School Library Education: From Face to Face to Distance Education (Volume 18, Number 2, July 2012). Deadline for papers is April 15, 2012.

School Libraries Worldwide, Connections: School librarians linking learning, leadership, technology, and society.

IASL Newsletter, Volume 40, Issue 3, November 2011

School Library Proclamation: A Library for Every School (2010) [115Kb 4 pages]

Sponsorship opportunities with IASL
Sponsorship documentation -- Immediate exposure within over 80 countries worldwide.

Projects, activites and resources
Site of the week -- Useful websites for school library and classroom programs -- Sponsored by LinksPlus, Australia.

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GiggleIT - International Childrens' Collaborative Project -- Free registration!!

GiggleIT new projects -- The GiggleIT Team have put together some great new projects.

News Flash -- GiggleIT Competition Winners (October 2010) GiggleIT Project Launch and Winners (September 2010)

GiggleIT Tutorial -- Student web pages and teacher page

GiggleIT Project Professional Development Manual -- Available in PDF and Word format from the School Libraries in Action (SLA) free resources section

The International Association of School Librarianship (IASL)
IASL Secretariat
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Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60601-7246
USA
Email: IASL Secretariat

Last updated February 2012 (KSB)