At https://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-publications-series-178 you can read all about the new publication ‘Global Action on School Library Education and Training’ by Barbara Schultz-Jones and Dianne Oberg (Eds.)
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At the ‘Publications‘ page a new ‘Heading’ is placed: ‘Conference presentations’. Here you will find abstracts, powerpoints and full text of presentations given during section sessions at WLIC’s Now you will find WLIC 2018 Kuala Lumpur presentations
Read full post…In the UK, there was some talk of replacing librarians with students (!) so Scotland has launched a national strategy for school libraries. I thought this document would be of interest to many of us. Vibrant Libraries, Thriving Schools: A National Strategy for School Libraries in Scotland 2018-2023: https://scottishlibraries.org/media/2108/vibrant-libraries-thriving-schools.pdf Thanks […]
Read full post…Recently 3 more translations of the Guidelines have become available: Bahasa Melayu (Malay) Deutsch (German) తెలుగు (Telugu) That makes that the Guidelines are now available in 12 languages: English Deutsch (German) Français (French) 中文 (Chinese) Bahasa Melayu (Malay) Magyar (Hungarian) Norsk (Norwegian) Português (Portuguese) Română (Romania) Svenska (Swedish) Türkçe (Turkish) […]
Read full post…Thanks to the Association des Professeurs Documentalistes de l’Éducation Nationale (A.P.D.E.N.) there is now a French translation of the School Library Guidelines (2nd ed.) They are now available in seven languages: Chinese, English, French, Hungarian, Portuguese, Norwegian and Swedish. https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/9512?og=52
Read full post…IASL 2017 CONFERENCE FINAL REPORT Submitted by Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer A successful IASL conference was held at California State University Long Beach August 4-8, 2017. To that end, the planning began more than two years ahead. California School Library Association (CSLA), California School Library Foundation (CSLF) and […]
Read full post…The proposal for a new book on school library education has been approved by IFLA and by the publisher DeGruyter Saur. The co-editors, Dr. Barbara Schultz-Jones (USA) and Dr. Dianne Oberg (Canada), will be issuing a call for chapter proposals later this month. Planned publication date June 2018. https://www.ifla.org/node/11803?og=52
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