A new UNESCO report suggests it’ll be more than 70 years before all children have access to primary school. Here is the link to the UNESCO report http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/efareport/reports/2013/ Here is a summary from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25811704 – it will be a 70-year wait before some children will be able to attend […]
Read full post…Monthly Archive for January, 2014
Information about Book Giving Day Feb 14: http://www.thebookchook.com/2014/01/lets-celebrate-digital-learning-day-2014.html bookmark http://bookgivingday.com/2014/01/25/a-bookmark-for-potential-existing-bookworms/, bookplates http://bookgivingday.com/bookplates/, and http://bookgivingday.com/2014/01/19/a-promise/Thanks
Read full post…A study carried out by the Centre for Logditudinal Studies, at the Institute of Education (one of the colleges of the University of London) supplies evidence that children who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better at school than their peers. Strong reading ability affected children’s scores in maths, […]
Read full post…ECIS Librarians 7th Triennial Conference 25 – 28th September 2014 • Waterloo, Belgium Share your expertise, ideas, information and knowledge with your colleagues. Please complete the following presenter’s form found at http://tinyurl.com/ecislibrary
Read full post…March 25 Announcement of the 2014 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate (s) at the National Library of Sweden at 1:00 pm CET. The announcement is broadcast live on www.alma.se/en and streamed live to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Italy. March 27 A presentation of the laureate at the Swedish Institute […]
Read full post…The Information Literacy Network of the Gulf, in partnership with Sultan Qaboos University (Oman), is offiering a day of informational presentations on February 12th, 2014 from 9:00am to 3:30pm. A series of speakers will present on the practical implementation of a range of technology resources used to support research skills […]
Read full post…All members of the IFLA School Libraries Standing Committee are invited to participate in the 2014 Mid-term meeting in London, UK in April. The main focus of the meeting will be on the revision of the 2002 IFLA/UNESCO School Library Guidelines. Detailed information about the meeting can be found under […]
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