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This conference is organized by the Libraries and Information Services Committee of ECIS (the European Council of International Schools)
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29-March 2, 2008 |
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It's a great line-up of guest speakers, The success of our conferences is based on a good mix of
guest speakers and buildings-level librarians. Session presenters are entitled to reduced registration fees! Save as you share!!
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http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~rtodd/ Ross Todd has long been concerned with information literacy and with how children learn, how they change information into knowledge. He is also key in promoting evidence-based practice as demonstration of the power and the impact of libraries and librarians. He was co-leader of the team conducting the Ohio Study which has been well publicised and well received; see, for instance, the School Library Journal articles 13,000 Kids Can't Be Wrong and Ross to the Rescue!. Todd has a wicked sense of humour and is an extremely popular workshop leader and conference presenter. More than two hundred librarians turned up at a recent full-day workshop he gave in Sydney! We are honoured that he is presenting the keynote address at our fifth triennial conference. |
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Theresa Breslin
http://www.theresabreslin.co.uk/
Theresa Breslin, a former librarian, is one of Scotland's Breslin "is committed to promoting reading and writing to young people and will talk about this to anyone who will listen" |
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 Toni
Buzzeo
Toni Buzzeo is an accomplished
children's storybook author and former Library Media Specialist. Her
children's picture book, The Sea Chest (Dial Books, 2002), a Junior
Library Guild selection, won a 2002 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award as well
as the 2004-05 Children's Crown Gallery Award. Buzzeo has also achieved great
success with her books,
Dawdle Duckling (2003),
Little Loon and Papa (2004) and Ready or Not, Dawdle Duckling (2005),
all published by Dial. Her two latest children's books, Our Librarian Won't Tell
Us ANYTHING! (2006) and Fire Up with Reading (2007) are published by
UpstartBooks and star a wise and witty school librarian named Mrs. Skorupski.
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Linda Cornwell Linda Cornwell has served as a secondary English language arts/reading teacher, an elementary school library media specialist, an administrator for Indiana’s school library media programs, a staff developer, and a national literacy consultant to educational publishers including Scholastic, Inc. She is currently an independent literacy consultant. Cornwell is active in professional organizations at state and national levels and has served as a member of the American Library Association’s Newbery Committee, a member of the National Education Association’s Reading Task Force 2000; the chairperson of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Special Literacy Task Force, and a consultant to the Middle Grades Reading Network. Our special thanks to Scholastic Inc for making possible Linda Cornwell's attendance at this conference.
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 Patrick
Jones
Patrick Jones’s first young adult novel Things Change (2004) was one of YALSA's best books for reluctant readers. His second novel Nailed was published in 2006. His third novel, Chasing Tail Lights will be published in July 2007, and he has just finished the draft of a fourth novel, Cheated. A former children's librarian, Jones has also written three professional books, including Connecting with Reluctant Readers (2006), Connecting Young Adults and Libraries (2004) and Do it Right! (2001). He has won lifetime achievement awards from both the Catholic Library Association and the American Library Association. Jones grew up in Flint, Michigan, but now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Storyteller, author, folklorist, traveller, award winner, librarian! Dr. Margaret Read MacDonald is author of over fifty books on folklore and storytelling topics. She is known for easy-to-tell audience-participation folktale collections: Twenty Tellable Tales, The Storyteller’s Start-up Book and others. Her sixteen award-winning picture books include Mabela the Clever, Fat Cat, Go to Sleep Gecko, and her most recent…The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog! MacDonald travels widely offering her storytelling workshops and visiting schools. Our thanks to Softlink Europe for
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Berlin, the place to be in 2008. This page was last updated on 26 December
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foremost authors. Her many awards include
the Carnegie Medal for Whispers in the Graveyard. She writes for
all ages and abilities, from early readers through to crossover mature teen/
adult books. Other titles include Kezzie, Remembrance, The Medici seal,
Divided city, Bullies at school, Simon's challenge, and the Dream Master series.
She was commissioned by the UK Library Association to write Power Pack - the
active guide to Libraries. 
