Another cycle of the Red Dot Book Awards and the Readers Cup competition is over. This is our 7th year! With over 5,000 votes cast from 11 different international schools,…
Author: ISLN of Singapore
Feedback on some professional visits in Perth
Last week Barb Reid and I did a fairly impromptu 3-day visit to Perth, thanks to Scoot fares too cheap to ignore, some end-of-year extra money, and the hunt for…
Around the world: Non-fiction awards for children’s and young adult literature
The guest speaker at today’s network meeting will be Bob Sibert, CEO of Bound to Stay Bound Books and son of the man for whom the American Library Association’s Robert…
The Red Dots roll around again…
The goal for announcing the 2016-2017 Red Dot shortlists is June 1st. Which means we need to be gathering suggested titles and getting volunteers to start reading them. I’d like…
Library Information Sessions for Parents
Some of the parents who regularly attend my Library Info sessions at Chatsworth. I started these sessions around May 2015 and I’ve had a very positive response from parents. I…
Andrew Stark: Understanding Space in the Library Landscape
At our most recent network meeting, hosted at UWCSEA East, we had the pleasure of Andrew Stark, Head of Libraries at The Southport School in Queensland, Australia, speak on the…
Two calls for papers/presentations: reThinking Literacy — and — AFCC
October 1st is the deadline for papers for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) which next year has a focus on Japan — though not every presentation has to…
Key learning points of the IB librarians workshop held Aug15
I had the opportunity to participate in the IB Category 1 Diploma Programme (Librarians) workshop that was held in UWCSEA East in Singapore from 21 to 23 August 2015. The…
Supporting digital literacy and 21st century learning through the school library
#SLAVConf @slavconnects The School Library Association of Victoria conference “It’s a digital world,” held recently in Melbourne, was a good opportunity to reflect on the digital environment that is shaping…
Welcoming Social – Fri Aug 21…. and a new online sharing space for us TLs in Asia….
There’s a new Facebook group for teacher-librarians working in Asia, started by Dianne McKenzie, called Asia School Library Connection. I would encourage you all to join. I think it’s a…