When we first heard about JAW 2016 @ISKL, we knew we it would be a great opportunity for us to meet people who shares the same profession as us but…
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LKSW 2017 & Speed Dating Picture Books from around the world
A reminder that Barb and I are closing registration at the end of the week for the Feb 17/18 Librarians’ Knowledge Sharing Workshop 2017, being held at UWCSEA East. Go…
The BLISS Bangkok Book Awards
The Bangkok international school librarians — BLISS — have started their own annual book awards. See https://bangkokbookawards.com/ Note that Kim Beeman, now at Shrewsbury Int’l in Bangkok was one of…
ISLN Partners with Wheelers ePlatform Wheelers has generously donated an ePlatform to ISLN. The committee decided to populate the ePlatform with 5 copies of the available Red Dot books. These…
Next year’s Red Dots – 2017-2018 – the game plan….
www.reddotawards.com This is the 8th year of the Red Dot Book Awards, run by our international school librarians’ network here in Singapore. (For a full list of similar awards by…
Library Staff Job-Alike Workshop (JAW) @ UWCSEA East, October
Friday, October 21, the library staff at UWCSEA East hosted the first annual Job-Alike Workshop (JAW) held here in Singapore, based on one held last year at Alice Smith School…
Setting up a village school library in Myanmar
If you were asked to help set up a new school library in a new primary school building in a farming village outside Mandalay, and you wouldn’t be able to…
Visit to Book Reach in Nepal
Siobhan Roulston recently left the Garden International School in Kuala Lumpur. She is taking a gap year to do some travelling. For the last two weeks she has been in…
Children’s Literature Talk — by Dr. Myra Garces-Bacsal et al – Nov 3 – Tanglin Trust School
A reminder that we’re all invited to a talk on multicultural picturebooks by a team of researchers, lead by Myra Garces-Bascal from NIE (National Institute of Education), on November 3,…
The Library Association of Singapore regularly offers interesting PD. Our member, Foo Soo Chin – School of the Arts, has generously shared this account of a recent professional development visit…