Friends,

We are looking forward to hosting this joint webinar with the IFLA Information Literacy Section for Unesco Global Media and Information Literacy Week. It will focus on “Teaching and Learning with AI in the School Library”, and explores the school librarians’ instructional role as MIL experts and educators as it relates to the benefits and challenges of incorporating Artificial Intelligence into practice in the school library.

Nov. 15, 2023 – 07:00 am- 08:30 AM EST USA – @IFLA Zoom
(01:00 pm- 02:30 PM CET PARIS, ROME / 08:00 pm – 10:30 PM MYT Kuala Lumpur)

Register here

In the UK, there was some talk of replacing librarians with students (!) so Scotland has launched a national strategy for school libraries.

I thought this document would be of interest to many of us.

Vibrant Libraries, Thriving Schools: A National Strategy for School Libraries in Scotland 2018-2023:

https://scottishlibraries.org/media/2108/vibrant-libraries-thriving-schools.pdf

Thanks to: [email protected]

Recently 3 more translations of the Guidelines have become available:
Bahasa Melayu (Malay)
Deutsch (German)
తెలుగు (Telugu)
That makes that the Guidelines are now available in 12 languages:

• English
• Deutsch (German)
• Français (French)
• 中文 (Chinese)
• Bahasa Melayu (Malay)
• Magyar (Hungarian)
• Norsk (Norwegian)
• Português (Portuguese)
• Română (Romania)
• Svenska (Swedish)
• Türkçe (Turkish)
• తెలుగు (Telugu)

If you are interested in joining a team or to start a translation in your language, please contact Albert K. Boekhorst.

The IASL / IFLA Joint Committee has also developed a set of workshop materials based on the Guidelines. The workshop materials consist of an Introduction and six Modules. The material can be used freely and adapted to meet local needs.

Thanks to the Association des Professeurs Documentalistes de l’Éducation Nationale (A.P.D.E.N.) there is now a French translation of the School Library Guidelines (2nd ed.)

They are now available in seven languages: Chinese, English, French, Hungarian, Portuguese, Norwegian and Swedish.

https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/9512?og=52

The proposal for a new book on school library education has been approved by IFLA and by the publisher DeGruyter Saur. The co-editors, Dr. Barbara Schultz-Jones (USA) and Dr. Dianne Oberg (Canada), will be issuing a call for chapter proposals later this month. Planned publication date June 2018. https://www.ifla.org/node/11803?og=52

The IMLS-funded Supporting Librarians in Adding Data Literacy Skills to Information Literacy Instruction project is a two-year project running from October 2015 through September 2017 to develop data and statistical literacy skills so librarians can better support critical comprehension skills in their students.

Over the course of the project, co-PIs Kristin Fontichiaro and Jo Angela Oehrli have partnered with data experts and with curriculum experts to identify mini-lessons, strategies, and “rules of thumb” that librarians can nimbly weave into their instruction. The project recognizes that librarians’ time (and that of their classroom colleagues) is limited and looks for the high-leverage practices with the greatest impact on student comprehension.

Here’s what you can get NOW

An online conference – see schedule: July 20-21, 2017<http://datalit.sites.uofmhosting.net/conference/schedule/>) and scroll down for last year’s conference archive!

Handbook<http://datalit.sites.uofmhosting.net/book/> of resources and strategies – chapters can be downloaded separately

Data Literacy ALA Poster Session for addressing fake news<http://datalit.sites.uofmhosting.net/2017/06/28/ala-poster-data-literacy-strategies-for-addressing-fake-news/>

The IASL School Library Research SIG invites you to the following sessions at the 2017 IASL Conference and Research Forum! California State University Long Beach 4-8 August

Saturday, August 5 2:00-3:30 pm.: A session on Doctoral Studies: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and Then Some)! Presenters and mentors: Jennifer Branch-Mueller, Barbara Schultz-Jones, Melissa Johnston, Nancy Everhart, Ross Todd, Mihaela Banek Zorica, Albert Boekhorst, Karen Gavigan, Dianne Oberg.

Monday, August 7, 2:00-3:30 pm: A  session on Education for Teacher-Librarianship: Anywhere, Anytime. Learn about collaborative PD, teaching with technology, teaching ethics, e-learning communities. Presenters: Karen Gavigan, Ross Todd, Barbara Schultz-Jones, Jennifer Branch-Mueller.

https://iaslconf2017.org/2015/09/25/welcome-to-the-2017-iasl-conference-and-research-forum/