A look at ISLN dates for the next 10 months

A look-ahead at the upcoming (northern hemisphere) academic year, in terms of dates.


CORRECTION re location of Sep 13th meeting at AISS.  Not in the Senior Library, but in the Junior one (enter via Gate 3).


ISLN Network meetings

• Thursday, September 13 @ AISS Junior Library
• December @ SAIS
• February @ OFS
• April @ UWCSEA Dover (AGM)

NB: We rotate the day of the week for our network meetings, in fairness to people's other after-school commitments.  So the December, February, and April dates will be on a day of the week that suits the host librarian, but will not be on a Thursday.

Hands on Literacy Conference - Saturday, November 17

Red Dot Awards & Readers Cup

• September - shortlist announced
• March - Red Dot voting and announcement of subset of books to be used in the Readers Cup
• May - Readers Cup

AGM Minutes & Membership Fee Reminder

The minutes of the AGM held April 23, 2012, at the new Lakeside campus of CIS are now online -- on the wiki.  See http://silcsing.wikispaces.com/Minutes

Note that the subcommittee which agreed to meet to continue discussing Hands on Literacy and other network PD initiatives is still exploring options.  Watch for updates very soon.

DUES now due

A reminder that our membership year starts on April 1 and ends on March 31, so we are already into 2012-2013 in terms of fees.

Click here for this year's Membership Form.  It contains all the information you need.

REMINDER: Network meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 7th at Tanglin Junior Library

Date:  Tues, Feb 7, 2012

Time:  4:00 for 4:30 pm start

Location:  Junior Library, Tanglin Trust School

RSVP to celeste.fisher@tts.edu.sg

Please come prepared to share in one or two ways:

-- Read any good children/young-adult literature lately?  Let's start collecting possible titles for next year's Red Dot award.  Bring along your recommendations and do a quick book-talk for us.  (Published in the past 4 years, please!)

-- Discovered or experienced anything exciting relating to school librarianship recently?   A new app?  Online tool?  Conference?  PD experience?  A great article or blog post?  Come prepared to share.

Agenda

• Welcome - apologies
• Children's Literature Conference -Kate will have some books to share showcasing authors and illustrators from the coming conference. Have you registered? Have you shared this exciting opportunity at your school?
• Charities and Service - Kate
• Hands on Literacy - update - Katie.
• Red Dot Awards - Kim.
• Red Dot 2012/13 recommendations (SHARE SESSION)
• Blog updates - Kim
• Readers' Cup - Joy- eligibility of schools in the region
• iPad apps evening? - Ben
• PD spotlight (SHARE SESSION)

Questions?  Email Linda Twitchett, our president

Minutes from our Nov 30, 2011, general meeting

Click here to read the minutes of our last meeting

Minutes from our Sep 15, 2011, general network meeting

Click here to read the minutes of our last meeting on Sep 15, 2011.

Participate in our Google Group

Our Google Group is a mailing list that allows us to easily send messages to each other. 
   
Anyone can join.  It's free.

Once you've joined, you can send messages to the group by using this email address:

issln@googlegroups.com

Many of you are NOT yet members of this group.

The trick is that you have to have a Google Account, which doesn't necessarily mean you have to have a Gmail account.

I just sent out a notice to everyone currently a member of the Google Group which will have the Subject Heading "You ARE a member of  ISLN@GOOGLEGROUPS.COM".

If you didn't get such an email, then you need to join the group.  See the link below.

International Schools of Singapore -- Library Network

Join this group

Remember to join ISLN!

Membership fees for 2011-2012 are now due. 

Click here to read about the benefits of membership and to download the PDF form to fill out.

Or download the PDF directly here.

Remember, if your school joins ISLN, all staff members from your school will receive the discount price for attending professional development events like the SAS Children's Literature Conference -- and Hands on Literacy.