Monthly Archive for July, 2014

Boys and reading

27 July 2014 – Editor

Here are some good tips about getting boys to read: http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/getting-boys-excited-about-reading.html?utm_content=bufferbb4b5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Categories: Literacy and Reading Promotion | Closed

UK research in children’s reading

25 July 2014 – Editor

http://dern.org/dern/research-reviews/page/what-are-children-reading an excellent summary of the recent UK research

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Categories: Research | Closed

Global info lit resources

25 July 2014 – Editor

Here is the UNESCO’s new publication: information literacy resources from around the world in different languages: You have 10 days to download it (should you wish to do so) by clicking on the following URL: http://www.unesco.org/tools/fileretrieve/3f6c8626.zip

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Categories: Literacy | Closed

South Sudan book donations

21 July 2014 – Editor

Since the conflict began in South Sudan in December 2013, more than 500,000 children have been internally displaced. UNESCO South Sudan is launching the Little Libraries Project to provide child-friendly literacy materials to children in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. Each Little Library will have culturally relevant stories for children […]

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Categories: Reading Promotion | Closed

LIS Education and Research Seminar

15 July 2014 – Editor

III International Seminar on LIS Education and Research (LIS-ER) http://bd.ub.edu/liser/    Barcelona, 4-5 June 2015  The Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Barcelona celebrates its centenary (1915-2015) with a seminar on the future of Library and Information Science Education and Research Introduction The School of Library and […]

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Categories: General | Closed