6 October 2008
This year we encouraged all our members to celebrate International School Libraries Day which was on 6th October 2008 in the UK. The theme for this year was Literacy and Learning at your School Library.
As a recognition of all the invaluable help that pupil librarians can be to busy school librarians the SLA launched the Pupil Librarian Toolkit this year as a free download for all SLA members. The Toolkit was produced by the SLA's Past Chair Eileen Armstrong and designed by our Production Editor, Richard Leveridge.
The SLA also created a new series of great posters, to go with the set produced last year, with bookmarks and other resources to help librarians celebrate the day. There is also a specially-produced online video.
Founded in 1999 by the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL), ISLD was celebrated in most parts of the world on the fourth Monday in October. As this is almost always in school holidays in the UK, the SLA decided that we will celebrate it here on the first Monday in October instead. This is also the first day of the UK's National Children's Book Week, which includes National Poetry Day on the Thursday.
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