Schools : Let's celebrate School Libraries Month !

credits : Chris OBrien

http://www.chrisobrion.com/

"Without libraries what do we have? We have not past and no future."

Ray Bradbury

No it's not about public libraries. However they very important in our city. It's about school libraries.

School Library Day US

http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm/2015

Every October school librarians - United States is in April - are encouraged to create activities to help their school and local community celebrate the essential role that strong school library programs play in a students education and career.

International School Library Month

http://iasl-online.mlanet.org/

Throughout October, every year, the world celebrates International School Library Month, the perfect time for students to visit their own school library and browse through the hundreds of books and e-books available.

October is the International School Libraries Month. In Portugal, schools celebrate SLM on 26 October 2015. This is the reason I am writing today about the SLM, thinking in all students and school libraries that will be celebrating it on the next Monday.

The SLM theme 2015 is "The School Library Rocks"

credits : Peter H. Reynolds

http://www.peterhreynolds.com/

International School Library Month allows those in charge of school libraries around the world to choose a day, week, or the entire month of October to celebrate the importance of school libraries.

The first International School Library Day was celebrated on 18 October 1999, with the theme, "A Day in the Life..."

The change to International School Library Month was approved by the IASL Board in December 2007.

Kids reading at school library, Canada

http://img.radio-canada.ca/

Education:

"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."

Isaac D'Israeli

Activities :

You will find some suggestions to celebrate this day on my post International School Libraries Day 2015 (my blog to Portuguese students and teachers)

However the ISLM is organizing special activities. There is information on the ISLM website to help you. Take part in one of the special activities :

• ISLM Bookmark Project

The ISLM Bookmark Project involves matched schools making homemade bookmarks - be creative - to exchange with each other.

This year Marie O’Brien of Australia and a team of her school colleagues will co-ordinate the 2015 Bookmark Exchange Project and Skype Project.

Aim:

The Bookmark Exchange Project is a simple, fun way of sharing the pleasure and delights of books and libraries and of making new friends through school libraries worldwide. If you and your students did not get involved last year perhaps you will this year.

You might wish your students to communicate with each other as you make your bookmarks so that they can learn something about another culture and a different way of life. 

If you don’t want to do either of these things you can simply just swap bookmarks or devise your own activity.

You will be able to register your interest by entering your details into a Google Spreadsheet

If you are unable to use the spreadsheet you can email Marie O'Brien. Register for the project, using either the Google spreadsheet or by email, as soon as possible. For detailed information, visit the ISLM Bookmark Project.

ISLM Skype Project

• ISLM Skype Project

Would your students like to talk to others in a far away country during ISLM2015? 

Join in the fun! If you would like to be part of the Skype Skype Project, complete the Survey Monkey form to receive a possible match for your school.

If you experience difficulties completing the form or have any queries please contact Marie for assistance.

• What people are doing for ISLM 2015:

You want to submit your school activities for the ISLM ? Send in your submissions for What people are doing for ISLM 2015 by email to the IASL Secretariat.

For detailed information, visit the ISLM's activities page

Deadline : November 15th 2015

By country : 

You would like to know what other schools from you country are doing? After the deadline, the ISLM website will publish.

Other activities:

In Portugal we have a different activity using social networks. I like it a lot.

Tweeting in SLD

Teachers invite students, parents, other teachers, and school staff to write a #tweet (140 characters) about the importance of school libraries. They will be published at the Twitter school/class account using the hashtag #IMSL15

The best tweets of each class/ group will be delivered to the school librarian. The school librarian choose the most creative to publish on the school library website.

My thoughts:

School libraries in the XXI century must have the books, e-books, e-readers and tablets in order to motivate the new generations.

School libraries meet the needs of all kind of learners. Never forget children's preparation to use e-books, especially the students from disadvantaged social backgrounds or having special needs.

Integrating digital literacy as critical elements for education (all levels) is essential to keep our students happy and captivated at the school libraries.

As I already wrote on this blog, implementing these new digital books is about more than just jumping on the latest technological bandwagon or attempting to reinvent the library and printed books in order to stay relevant.

Le Petit Nicolas pop-up

http://www.babelio.com/

School libraries must be prepared to introduce innovative devices without forget the enchantment of printed books. The smell of paper, the illustrations, some pop-up for the younger readers, the pleasure to touch or turn the page. Just beautiful gestures that we must keep.

Teachers must be innovative of course. So printed books and e-books are both welcome.

School libraries are integrating learning spaces that values connections between home, school, community, and the world.

Encourage students to be creative and never let them lose their sense of wonder. So let's keep reading all over the year in the classroom, encouraging our students to become lifelong avid readers.

"To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books."

Carlos María Domínguez

G-Souto 

25.10.2015

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Let's celebrate School Libraries Month, reading !

http://iasl-online.mlanet.org/

"A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket."

Chinese Proverb

Every October school librarians - United States is on April - are encouraged to create activities to help their school and local community celebrate the essential role that strong school library programs play in a student's educational career.

Throughout October, every year, the world celebrates International School Library Month, the perfect time for students to visit their own school library and browse through the hundreds of books and nowl e-books as well, available.

October is the International School Libraries Month. In Portugal, schools celebrate this event on 27 October. This is the reason I am writing today about the SLM, thinking in all students and school libraries that will be celebrating it on the next Monday.

The SLM theme 2014 is "Your School Library : Mind-Map Central"

ttp://eduscapes.com/

International School Library Month allows those in charge of school libraries around the world to choose a day, week, or the entire month in October to celebrate the importance of school libraries.

The first International School Library Day was celebrated on 18 October 1999, with the theme, "A Day in the Life..."

The change to International School Library Month was approved by the IASL Board in December 2007.

http://www.ala.org/

Education:

“I don't know where I'd be without my school library,” said Kinney. “Our librarians were passionate about putting great books in the hands of kids, and making us into lifelong readers. School libraries introduce kids to whole new worlds and new perspectives and are so important in broadening kids' minds. It's crucial that we support our school libraries, especially in times of tightening budgets. I'm so grateful for the well-stocked libraries and knowledgeable, dedicatedschool librarians that were a part of my childhood."

Jeff Kinney, bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

Kinney is right. School libraries and Languages teachers are passionnate about putting great books in the hands of our students and making them into lifelong readers. If you speak Potuguese, you must read my post Concurso Literatura Portuguesa : Achas que sabes ler?

www.google.com/images

Activities :

You will find some suggestions to celebrate this day on my post International School Libraries Day 2012

Hoping some of the activities could inspire you.

But the ISLM is organizing special activities. There is information on the ISLM website to help you. Take part in one of the special activities : 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/

• ISLM Bookmark Project

The ISLM Bookmark Project involves matched schools making homemade bookmarks (any style, shape, etc - be creative) that reflects the International School Library Month theme. 

Ask your students to be creative !

The Bookmark Exchange Project is a simple, fun way of sharing the pleasure and delights of books and libraries and of making new friends through school libraries worldwide. 

If you and your students did not get involved last year perhaps you will in 2014. If you have a matched school early enough you may wish to your students communicate with each other before you make your Bookmarks exchange in readiness for International School Library Month in October.

I am sure you registered your school early in September.

Please note the following:

• You should aim to send the bookmarks to your matched school in October
• In order to avoid disappointment for students and teachers in your matched school, please follow through on your bookmark commitment.

• ISLM Skype Project

Would your students like to talk to others in a far away country during International School Library Month? 
The trick is finding someone in a time zone where you can link up via Skype during a school day. Next Monday will be perfect here in Portugal.

Luis de Camões 

illustration : Gonçalo Mar / Miguel Ram

http://visao.sapo.pt/

• What people are doing for ISLM 2014

Send in your submissions for "What people are doing for ISLM 2014" by email to the IASL Secretariat.

Subject line: ISLM activities

Include in your email message the following information:

• Country
• Name
• Title of your position
• School or organization
• Brief outline of the ISLM activity
• Web link, if appropriate
• Up to 6 pictures to accompany your report [more than 6 will not be used on the web)

If sending images to accompany your report on ISLM activities, please send them as *.jpg or *.gif files. Keep them as small as possible, for example under 500KB. Send no more than 6 pictures with your report.

Please note: Submissions received after 8 November 2014 may not be included on the ISLM "What people are doing" web pages.

e-books

http://www.stargazersworld.com/

Some thoughts:

A school library in the XXI century must have the new books, e-books, e-readers and other kind of material in order to motivate the new generations.

A school library meets the needs of all kind of learners. Never forget chidren's preparation for e-readers, especially  the students from disadvantaged social backgrounds or having special needs.

Integrating digital and media literacy as critical elements for education at all levels is essential to keep our students near the school libraries.

As I already wrote on this blog, implementing these new digital books is about more than just jumping on the latest technological bandwagon or attempting to reinvent the library and printed books in order to stay relevant.

School libraries must be prepared to introduce innovative devices but also not to forget the enchantment of printed books. The smell of paper, the illustrations, some times in relief (children's books), the pleasure to turn the page. Just beautiful things that we must keep.

Teachers librarians anda languages teachers must be innovative of course. Both are awesome. Printed books and/or e-books. Even reading online. Remember Digital Reading in the classroom.

At school, the teachers librarians around the world are always looking forward to a future with e-books and printed books.

School libraries are integrated learning spaces that values connections between home, school, community, and the world.

Encourage students to be creative and never let them lose their sense of wonder. So let's keep reading all over the year encouraging our students to become lifelong avid readers.

"We should teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."

B.F. Skinner

G-Souto

24.10.2014

Copyright © 2014G-Souto'sBlog, gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com®

Let's celebrate School Libaries Month, reading ! by  GinaSouto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

International School Library Day 2012

http://www.iasl-online.org/

Throughout October, every year, the world celebrates International School Library Month, the perfect time for students to visit their own school library and browse through the hundreds of books and several e-books available to them!

International School Library Day was proclaimed by the IASL President, Dr Blanche Woolls, in 1999 and reaffirmed by the IASL President, Peter Genco, in 2005.

http://www.iasl-online.org/

The 1st International School Library Day was celebrated on 18 October 1999, with the theme, "A Day in the Life...".

The change to International School Library Month was approved by the IASL Board in December 2007.

This change coincides with the 10th anniversary of IASL celebrating school libraries. International School Library Month will allow those in charge of school libraries around the world to choose a day in October that best fits their specific situation in order to celebrate the importance of school libraries".

The SLM theme for 2012 is:

School Libraries: a Key to the Past, Present & Future.

In Portugal the ILSM is on the 22th October. This is the reason why I write this post today.

Bibliotecas Escolares

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/

Education:

"We should teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."

B.F. Skinner

Some Suggestions:

Let's begin our lesson today watching this awesome animation about books with our students:

Of course, you must not forget The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. 


Activities:

• If you have your own blog for students as I have, ask your students to create a special post to publicise 'International School Library Day'. They can write some ideas or some opinions about a book they read in the classroom;

• If you don't have a blog for students, but your school library has a website, create with your students a special page to publish the work of the students about ISLD. Tell the IASL webmaster so he can link to your blog or page;

• Tell people (teachers, students, parents) in your school community about International School Library Day and the importance of school libraries in teaching and learning. Ask students to create some posters (you can do it in a cross-curricular Languages & Arts. Then spread the word by sharing those posters with other classmates, teachers and students;

• Invite an illustrator or a writer, even one of your students that now is a young writer led a talk with students in the school library;

• Let your students to pick a book or a e-book at the school library. Then in the classroom, distribute all the books for different students. They must be included in different groups;

• After reading the book, every group of students must work one or two activities: creating a different end, including other characters, developing the story in a different way, preparing a discussion about the authors and books, after some research on their tablets or smartphones;

• Prepare a school newspaper and include on it some of the best creative works well written by your students;

• With your students, search on the Internet, Twitter or Facebook for information  about School Library Day in other countries; 

• Organize a Google Hangout inviting a teacher and students from a different school and discuss the theme, some books, or the importance of reading in curriculum:

• Use the hangout conclusions or students exchange project as the aim for a discussion on the ways International School Libraries or just school libraries differ around the world.

Bookmarks

Other Activities:

Take part in one of the special activities organised by IASL to celebrate International School Library Day this year. There is some information on this website to help you. 

For example The Bookmark Project:

"The ISLM Bookmark Project involves matched schools making homemade bookmarks that reflects the International School Library Month theme.

Last year 16,691 students, ranging in ages from 4 to 17 years, from schools in 23 countries participated in the Project."

Portugal, Spain, UK, Croatia, Hungary, the USA, Hong Kong China, Canada, India, Australia, the West Indies, Romania, Italy, Mainland China, Russia, Scotland, the Ireland, Singapore, Slovenia, the Republic of Georgia, Indonesia, Poland and Nigeria all enjoyed bookmarks from new friends living in another part of the world.

The Bookmark Exchange Project is a fun way of sharing the pleasure and delights of books, e-books and libraries and of making new friends through school libraries worldwide. 

You and your students can participate now. Read more here. 

Submissions received after th 31 October 2012 may not be included on the ISLM "What people are doing" web pages.

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/

Some thoughts :

Well, of course my usual readers know that I write often about reading books and e-books. 

A school library in the XXI century must have the new gadgets: e-books, e-readers and other devices  in order to involve  the new generation of readers. 

A school library must meet the needs of many different kind of learners. Never forget children's preparation for e-readers, especially with students from disadvantaged social backgrounds or special needs. 

Integrating digital and media literacy as critical elements for education at all levels in school, is essential to keep our students near the school libraries.

As I already wrote on this blog, implementing e-readers into the school libraries program is about more than just jumping on the latest technological bandwagon or attempting to reinvent the library in order to stay relevant. It’s about 'good practice in school library', and 'impressive support to students'.

School library

via BerkeleyCarroll school

School libraries must be prepared to introduce innovative devices. The teachers librarians must be very innovative. School directors are not so open to new ideas. But fight for your ideas.

In their efforts to implement e-books, school libraries face a set of challenges that differ from those confronting their public and academic counterparts. 

At the school libraries around the world are continuing to look forward to a future rich with ebooks.

School libraries are integrated learning spaces that values connections between home, school, community, and the world.

Flexibility, creativity and the ability to question are some of the most important transferrable skills that children and young people will need in the fluid, changeable and unpredictable world of work they will emerge into when they eventually leave school. So pay attention at the front!

And finally! You do remember this video? Just lovely!

You see, we have the "Net-Gen" in our classrooms! But a book is still an enchantment!

Read with your students! Show them the wonders of their imaginations!

Encourage their creativity, and never let them lose their sense of wonder.

"Books belong to their readers"

John Green


G-Souto

21.10.2012
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References:

IASL's Coordinator of International School Library Day: Rick Mulholland (Canada)

The International School Library Day Logo: Peter Rugendyke (North Pinjarra, Western Australia)

International School Library

http://www.iasl-online.org/