ACTIVITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL LIBRARY MONTH

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL LIBRARY MONTH

OCTOBER 2013
The theme for the month is
SCHOOL LIBRARIES: DOORWAYS TO LIFE
 Contact a school library in another country to exchange messages or undertake a co-operative activity, perhaps using e-mail or the Web. Use IASL Online and Education World to make contact (see website addresses below).

 With your learners, search IASL Online and the Internet for information about school libraries in other countries. Use the results as the basis for a discussion on ways in which school libraries differ around the world. Try to access other school libraries’ web sites, and construct one for your school library.

 Organise an Open Day in your school library and invite parents and other members of the local community to attend it. Let learners demonstrate the online catalogue, computer-based services …or show new books or other resources.

 Arrange a Book Fair with an international theme. This might include highlighting books about other countries (especially African countries), books by authors from other countries, or books in other languages.

 Visit the GiggleIT website and participate in the "Through our window – the colours
of our land" Project (see website address below).

 Mount displays (of books, DVDs, CDs, audiocassettes and/or CD-ROMs) with a Library Week theme, not only in the school library, but also in the school entrance area or an outside location. Involve learners.
 Attend the Library and Information Association of South Africa’s Pre-conference workshop for School Library and Youth Services on Saturday, 5 October 2013 at the Centre for the Book in Cape Town and celebrate school libraries with the theme: School libraries and youth services transforming literacy (see www.liasa.org.za).

 Let’s celebrate! Join together with other local school librarians, librarians, and people who support school libraries, to celebrate International School Library Day. Invite your school principal. Invite your IMG manager, circuit team manager or curriculum adviser. Present them with reminders of school libraries, e.g. mousepads, bookmarks, balloons, badges.
Compiled by EDULIS (WCED Education Library and Information Service) from the IASL and Education World websites:
http://www.iasl-online.org

http://www.educationworld.com

http://www.iasl-online.org/events/isld/sldsuggested_activities.html

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