ACT Chief Minister and Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Katy Gallagher, has thanked the Canberra community for donating more than 3,500 kilograms of food for charity as part of the Food for Fines initiative run by Libraries ACT in the lead up to Christmas.
[Via "Love to Read"]
“The Newcastle Region Library’s popular ‘Ten Minutes a Day’ program is a library based program designed to promote the benefits of reading aloud to young children. Since the launch of the campaign thousands of schools, libraries and community organisations throughout Australia have passed on the “Ten Minutes a Day” message. The program provides practical ideas to help parents and carers learn about the value of sharing and experiencing the love of reading with their babies, two years and under. Is also includes a brochure for parents and carers, a set of posters (suitable for classrooms and libraries), book packs for loan and a series of ‘Baby Book Time’ library workshops for parents and their babies. The “‘Ten Minutes a Day” program is made possible by a donation from the Newcastle Permanent Building Society’s Charitable Foundation. Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation is delighted to partner with public libraries in NSW. Ten Minutes A Day – the best investment you can make in your child’s future!” What more do we need to say – so proud to partner with this great program.
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them”
Mark Twain
Colleges and universities are understandably quite proud of their libraries, which can be a selling point for prospective students and donating alumni alike, and they often become the most well-designed and beautifully adorned buildings on campus. To that end, and perhaps to inspire your studies a bit, we’ve collected a few of the most beautiful college and university libraries in the world, from Portugal to France to Boston.
[via Love to Read]
Wonderful to see the great work that is being done to promote literacy not only in Australia, but around the world… “ Buk bilong Pikinini, which roughly translates as “books for children”, establishes children’s libraries in Papua New Guinea. The purpose of Buk bilong Pikinini is to focus on early learning through the creation of libraries in community based localities such as near settlements, clinics and market places. Buk bilong Pikinini has created a PNG specific literacy based learning programme, which is conducted every day in all the libraries to foster a love of reading and learning. Many families who cannot afford to send their children to school find Buk bilong Pikinini libraries to be a welcome opportunity for their children to learn to read. Buk bilong Pikinini is proud to be accepted as a partner of the National Year of Reading 2012 and wish to promote the immense role that libraries play in providing the tools for literacy. There is currently a literacy crisis in Papua New Guinea and public libraries have all but disappeared.”
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What is Library Camp?
Library Camp is an excellent free professional development opportunity; an unconference for anyone who works in, researches, uses or is interested in libraries. Attendees from a range of backgrounds, library types and experience levels are welcome.
Unconference session topics are decided on the day by everyone. Library Camp provides the opportunity to be an active participant in discussions and for participants to be challenged and stimulated. There is no audience – unconferences are interactive!
Nervous about participating? Don’t worry, no one will force you to do PowerPoint karaoke, but we will all be supportive if you do! Your contribution is valued whether you are contributing to discussion, chairing a session or cleaning up at the end of the day.
Where is Library Camp?
University of Melbourne has kindly offered to host Library Camp, it will be held at the Parkville Campus and is easily accessible by public transport, but parking will be available (more details on the Library Camp website).
When is Library Camp?
Friday 10 February 2012, from 9:30 to 4:30.
We have timed LibraryCamp Australia to be directly after the VALA2012 Conference in order to attract interstate and international guests but also so that people who are unable to attend VALA can gain the benefit of networking and collaborating with VALA delegates and feed off that conference buzz.
How much will it cost?
Thanks to our generous sponsors Library Camp is a free event!
The event will be catered so please let us know if you have any dietary requirements when registering.
More information and registration at http://www.librarycampaustralia.com
Follow us on twitter at @LibCampOz and tweet about us using #libcampoz12
We look forward to seeing you on the 10th of February,
Library Camp Australia Unorganisers
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.”
Germaine Greer
The New York Public Library is facing the harshest budget cut in its history.In these tough times they called on an American Icon…
Take Action: http://bit.ly/vpSQSh
I hope you’ve already seen the news - we have our first ever children’s laureates in children’s authors Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor
http://www.childrenslaureate.org.au/index.php/news/first-australian-childrens-laureate-announced/
During their appointment Alison and Boori will act as national and international ambassadors for Australian children’s literature and will separately visit every state and territory inspiring young people to tell their own stories.
World Library and Information Congress:
78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
“Libraries Now! – Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering”
11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland
Call for Papers
Over the past ten years, there has been a growing awareness about the potential role of E-learning in the context of Information Literacy, encompassing information literacy instruction through to information literacy education. E-learning is often regarded as an effective way to extend library presence through innovative services and to reach new communities.
As learning and teaching environments develop, librarians are required to change their own understanding of information literacy skills instruction, particularly in terms of how to understand and make optimum use of new E-learning platforms and academic content management systems to help students construct social knowledge and critical thinking.
The Information Literacy Section and the E-learning Special Interest Group invite papers that address a number of questions of research and practice:
- Is there any evidence to show that E-learning effectively promotes self-paced and sustainable learning in the area of information literacy skills?
- Has E-learning enabled libraries to extend their reach to new populations, or provided their existing population with new services and fresh possibilities for learning?
- While online tutorials are mainly used in the academic environment for large populations of students, what strategies have been introduced in public libraries to encourage lifelong E-learning?
- Are there any advantages in teaching information literacy skills using a virtual learning environment (VLE) or course management systems (such as Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT) in a blended learning context?
- Can information literacy education benefit from collaborative learning through forum, chat and distance learning class experiences?
- What aspects of information literacy (eg information skills instruction, research process education…) are significantly enhanced by the E-learning experience? What elements of the E-learning have the greatest value in information literacy training?
- Many tutorials focus specifically on information seeking and citing sources; can E-learning go beyond this to address a wider range of information literacy outcomes?
Proposals should include :
Papers
Presenters will be expected to submit final versions of their papers by May 14, 2012. Papers should be in English (or in one of the official IFLA languages[1], with an English translation attached). The language of the session will be English. Presenters will have 15 minutes at the programme to deliver summaries of their papers, and time will be allowed for an open forum to allow audience interaction.
Please note that the Programme Committee has no funds to assist prospective authors: abstracts should only be submitted on the understanding that the expenses of the attending the Helsinki conference (including travel, expenses and conference fee) will be the responsibility of the authors(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers. At least one author will be expected to attend conference to deliver the paper. A small number of grants for conference attendance may be available at: www.ifla.org/III/members/grants.htm
For more information, please contact : agnes.colnot@univ-rennes1.fr or g.hallam@qut.edu.au