{"id":109,"date":"2012-09-14T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T15:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/?p=109"},"modified":"2012-09-14T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T15:24:01","slug":"ifla-conference-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/2012\/09\/14\/ifla-conference-report\/","title":{"rendered":"IFLA conference report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please find below a report from ALADIN member Heike vom Orde (IZI Documentation Centre<\/a>, Germany) on her recent participation at IFLA 2012, the World Library and Information Congress<\/a> that took place in Helsinki in August 2012.<\/p>\n

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During my stay in Helsinki I attended the IFLA off-site event at Sello Library in Espoo on August 15, 2012: \u201cSurprising Library! \u2014 Public Libraries, Libraries for Children and Young Adults and School Libraries and Resource Centers\u201d. This session was part of the IFLA Annual Conference joint session for\u00a0Public Libraries, Libraries for Children and Young Adults and School Libraries and Resource Centres. Papers and Case studies from Finland, USA, Denmark, Germany, Canada and the Congo Democratic Republic were presented at the \u201csurprising\u201d location of Sello Library<\/a>, a very modern library located in a shopping center near Helsinki. In my report I will focus on the four presentations that I was most impressed with; you can find all presentations online at: http:\/\/conference.ifla.org\/ifla78\/session-160<\/a><\/p>\n

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The event started with a speech on Journey into imagination \u2013 a glimpse of the history of Finnish children\u2019s literature<\/a><\/strong>. According to the presenters Finnish children\u2019s literature lives on the cutting edge of time. Especially youth fiction touches on the social pain points sharply and accurately as issues are often raised in children\u2019s literature much earlier than in adult fiction. When reading children\u2019s literature, adult readers learn at the same time about\u00a0the state of society. The presentation ended with the statement: \u201cRead children\u2019s books and you\u2019ll know what kind of a world you live in. Wings of imagination will come along as a freebie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jane Kenney Myers, President of the Lubuto Library Project (LLP), gave in her presentation Outreach to vulnerable youth in Africa through partnerships for innovative programming: The Lubuto Library Project<\/a><\/strong> insight into her innovative international development organization. The LLP mission is to create opportunities for equitable education and poverty reduction through model library services housed in indigenously styled buildings in Zambia. These houses provide not only safe havens, but also literacy skills and opportunities for educational growth. The project aims at sub-Saharan Africa\u2019s street children, orphans and other vulnerable and out-of-school children by building and stocking open-access libraries, hosted and staffed by community-based organizations.\u00a0 LLP also connects North American and European volunteers and students with their African peers through community services. LLP is a professional organization whose programs \u2013 rooted in local communities and guided by prominent Zambians \u2013 are according to Mrs Myers important and unique in Africa.<\/p>\n

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Susanne Brandt from Germany presented a talk on Blended living and learning in children\u2019s libraries as places of virtual, social, sensual, esthetic and creative experiences \u2013 including practical examples from Germany<\/a><\/strong>. She presented a vision of librarianship for young people as a concept of \u201cblended living and learning\u201d: Special programs with experiences in the nature, artistic impressions, conversation or story telling in dialogue with different methods characterize the library as a meeting place with virtual, sensory, social and esthetic aspects. From this perspective libraries are able to strengthen their independent position and open their rooms for \u201cblended living\u201d to support the orientation and sensibility of young people in the virtual and real world.<\/p>\n

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Finally, St\u00e9phhane Legault from Canada presented the incredible success story of the Club des aventuriers du livre<\/a><\/strong>, an amazing Summer Reading Club that was established in 1995 by Lanaudi\u00e8re Public Libraries. The dynamic and unique summer reading club is for children from six to fourteen years old. Since 1995, more than 85 000 children have read more than a million books. The reading club aims to promote academic achievement during the holidays, especially for boys.<\/p>\n

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The session in Espoo was very well attended and was inspiring for information professionals who are looking for innovative strategies to reach their target group and to support literacy skills.<\/p>\n

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Heike vom Orde
\nLeitung Dokumentation \/ Head of Documentation<\/p>\n

Heike.vomOrde@br.de<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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