The Kinder-und Judeng buch Portal (Children’s and Young People’s Literature Portal) has been developed as a cooperative project by the Goethe-Institut with the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences and ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH .
The intended audience is those who promote who German children’s literature abroad.
The portal gives information about 50 selected authors writing in German for children and teens as well as 20 illustrators of children’s books in the second half of the 20th century.
For nine years the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) celebrated International School Library Day (ISLD). ISLD has just got a whole lot bigger. It has grown into International School Library Month (ISLM).
This change was approved by the IASL Board in order to accommodate the many ways that school library personnel were celebrating ISLD. It was decided that each country, province, state and even school can choose their own specific day, week or even the whole month of October to celebrate school libraries.
In the coming months the International School Library Month (ISLM) section of the IASL web site will be updated to reflect the change.
Rick Mulholland, ISLM coordinator, has announced that the ISLM Committee has chosen Literacy and Learning at your School Library as the 2008 ILSM theme.
The Kaleidoscope Children’s Literature Conference - Story: Bridging Worlds. November 6 - 8, 2008 is the next time for this highly successful conference and it will be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This conference provides you with an opportunity to “rub shoulders with some of the most talented authors and illustrators known in the children’s literature world”.
Australia’s Sonya Hartnett has been awarded the 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. This award, created by the Swedish government in honor of the much-loved children’s author, is the world’s richest children’s and youth literature literature prize. Previous winners of the award have included Philip Pullman and Maurice Sendak.
Sonya Hartnett’s first novel, Trouble All the Way, was published in 1984, when she was 15. Since then she has written a body of work that defies easy categorization and which appeals to adult readers as much as to adolescents. Her writing has won many awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for Thursday’s Child (2002). Her latest novel, The Ghost’s Child (2007), has been shortlisted for Best Book in the South East Asia & South Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. The regional winners of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes will be announced later today.
Sonya Hartnett will receive the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in Stockholm from Crown Princess Victoria on 28 May.
In my first posting here I thought I’d introduce InfoLit Global, a website sponsored by IFLA and UNESCO. We’ve also added a link to the site on the Information Literacy SIG pages.
The site was new to me as of a couple weeks ago and I’d encourage every member to check it out.
The site describes itself this way:
“The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) has created this database to record information literacy materials from different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO.
Librarians, educators and information professionals are invited to participate. If you have developed information literacy materials and would like to share them with the world community, please submit the required data.”
I’ve long thought that we have too many places to post our great ideas and projects and it seems like this would be a great international clearinghouse for sharing our information literacy processes and products. Notice that there is a link to sign up as a country contact and that would seem to be a great way to make our presence known on the site. When I signed up I made sure to use IASL as my affiliation but if you are willing to be a country contact I’m sure you could use your local association as the affiliation.
Links are arranged under the topics of Communication (conferences, listservs, weblogs, websites), IL Products for Users (advocacy, assessment, courses, know-how materials, library tours, library skills tests, tutorials, workshops), Organizations (professional associations, IL training organizations, international organizations, research projects/centers), Publications (guidelines, monographs, serials, translations of key documents, thesaurus), and Training the Trainers (courses (including web-based and distance education), institutes and workshops).
Also notice that there is an information literacy logo contest going on right now which some you might propose as a student project. “The aim of creating this Logo is to make communication easier between those who carry out information literacy projects, their communities, and society in general. The Logo will be available free of charge and promoted as an international symbol of information literacy.” Sounds like a great opportunity to promote our students’ talents to the world.
The purpose of the survey is to gain evidence to determine whether developments in e-learning, using digital information in school library teaching programs are increasing the positive impact on student achievement. Dennis Granlund from the Catholic Education Office in Canberra, Australia is hosting the survey and is encouraging school library personnel from around the world to participate in the survey. As Dennis indicates, “The survey will assist with research into the impact of new communication technologies on teaching and learning in relation to the development of digital libraries and e-learning within school library programs.” Follow this link…..
