Based in Cape Town, PRAESA (Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa) is an organisation that has worked to promote reading and literature for children and young people in South Africa since 1992. The Jury’s Citation reads: With the joy of reading as its compass point, PRAESA […]
Read full post…Monthly Archive for March, 2015
UNESCO’s Open Access Curriculum is Now Available The complete set of five Open Access (OA) modules for researchers and four OA modules for library schools is now available online. These curricula will soon be converted into self-directed e-learning tools, which will enable users to self-assess their knowledge on Open Access […]
Read full post…CM Magazine: Canadian Review of Materials, University of Manitoba Online publication, open access: https://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/ Canadian Children’s Book News: Canadian Children’s Book Centre In print (subscription) with archived issues online: http://www.bookcentre.ca/publications/canadian_childrens_book_news Quill & Quire: Key Publishers Co. In print and online, subscription only – some content available from the website: http://www.quillandquire.com/ […]
Read full post…The IFLA Section for Libraries for Children and Young Adults. publication of the expanded second edition of The World through Picture Books, enriched with sixteen new annotated country selections and with ideas on how to use them at the library. This new, illustrated edition features fifty-two country lists of picture […]
Read full post…Does having a library help make a child more likely to read for pleasure at school? And what about at home? Does having a library impact a child’s attitude towards reading? Room to Read commissioned a research team to examine their libraries in Laos, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Zambia, and […]
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