Rowman & Littlefield is excited to announce that the Third Edition of the Technology and the School Library: A Comprehensive Guide for Media Specialists and Other Educators by Odin L. Jurkowski will be publishing in July 2017. Pre-order at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442276437/Technology-and-the-School-Library-A-Comprehensive-Guide-for-Media-Specialists-and-Other-Educators-Third-Edition
Read moreCanadian School Libraries, the new national school library association of Canada, is an IASL member. The first edition of its new Canadian School Libraries Journal has just been released. Great content, inviting format. Please have a look! http://journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/
Read moreThe first volume in the IASL-Libraries Unlimited joint series, International Perspectives on School Libraries has been published Librarians and Educators Collaborating for Success The International Perspective by Marcia A. Mardis, Editor Here’s the link for more information and for making a purchase. http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A4748P
Read moreA great website with a list of articles and links to research about why we need libraries and teacher librarians in schools. http://list.ly/list/1KWA-why-we-need-libraries-and-teacher-librarians created by Susan Stephenson, aka The Book Chook.
Read moreThe IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS), the Information Literacy Section and the School Libraries Section, invite interested professional to submit proposals for the open session to be held during IFLA WLIC in Wrocklaw, Poland, from 19-25 August 2017. Theme: ‘Media is Message: Critical use of Video in the Digital Age’ Full details here at http://2017.ifla.org/cfp-calls/avms-joint-with-infolit-and-school
Read moreThanks to the Hungarian School Librarians’ Association, another translation is available now of the Guidelines: Magjar (Hungarian). This brings the number of languages in which the Guidelines are available at: English, Hungarian, Norwegian, Portuguese and Swedish.
Read moreLe monde change, les bibliothèques scolaires aussi. C’est le leitmotiv qui semble avoir guidé les auteures d’un document intitulé La bibliothèque scolaire du XXIe siècle : un modèle en 4 axes. Préparé par l’Association pour la promotion des services documentaires scolaires (APSDS), le document propose « un modèle dynamique de la bibliothèque scolaire et de son […]
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