Category Archives: Section information

Promising Librarian Award goes to IFLA School Librarian

The “Promising Librarian Award” is given to young Malaysian librarians who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in the field of librarianship. This award is intended to honor librarians who, early in their careers, have shown exceptional performance, demonstrating their management abilities and leadership potential.

The following requirements must be met in order for the candidate to be considered for this award: they must have shown excellent work performance in the library, actively promoted the use of libraries and information centers, and been involved in the field of librarianship outside of their duty organization. The candidate must also contribute to efforts to improve the librarianship profession and effectively generate written content that advances the field of librarianship.

We are proud of IFLA School Libraries Section Committee Member, Mayasari Abdul Majid, PhD., for winning this award! Congratulations!

Photo of Maya accepting award

Section steering committee member honored

The Ontario Library Association (OLA) is thrilled to recognize several individuals and organizations that have greatly contributed to Ontario’s libraries. From library advocacy to program development, the recipients of OLA’s 2015 awards have supported school, academic and public libraries with outstanding innovation in their communities. Awards will be presented to recipients during the annual OLA Super Conference, held from Jan. 27 to 30, 2016. Among the award winners is Joanne Plante, Conseil Des Écoles Catholiques Du Centre-Est by the L’Association des bibliothèques de l’Ontario-Franco (ABO-Franco), who won Le Prix Micheline Persaud.

Furthermore, Joanne Plante has been nominated by Radio-Canada (CBC) – Le Droit to be Personnality of the week! She was interviewed by Radio-Canada and Unique FM, and hopes this can give importance to School Libraries.

Special Issue on school libraries in National Education journal

National Education is a quarterly refereed journal published in Turkey.The table of contents and abstracts are published in English as well as in Turkish.You can link to the journal at
Click on the cover the contents, and the journal is available.
One of the authors, Ayse Yurksel-Durukan, is an IASL Regional Director. Barbara Schultz-Jones and Dianne Oberg also have an article in this issue: “New international school library guidelines”

Programme School Libraries Section for IFLA WLIC 2016 approved

The programme as proposed by the School Libraries Section for WLIC 2016 Colombus was approved by the IFLA Professional Committee.

‘Inclusionary practices to support school libraries’
The conference theme aligns well with the section’s new school library guidelines, which were developed to assist school library professionals and educational decision-makers in their efforts to ensure that all students and teachers have access to effective school library resources and services, delivered by qualified school library personnel.

Building on the Congress theme and Section guidelines roll-out, presentations will be considered that address the theme and examine:

• the role of the community to support school libraries and implement school library guidelines; and

• inclusionary practices in supporting school libraries and implementing the school library guidelines

Members

As for 16-9-2015 for the Section there are:

  • 19 Institutional members
  •  1 International Association
  • 27 National organisations
  • 13 Personal affiliates

This total of 60 members represents 37 countries.

As you don’t have to be an IFLA member to subscribe to the Mailing list, there are 281 persons subscribed to:

SCHOOL-L: The purpose of the list will be for better communication between the members of the section and to disseminate minutes, newsletters, etc throughout the group.