2008 Conference

Literacy and Reading in co-operation with the Public Libraries and Library Services to Multicultural Populations

The Global Literacy and Reading Fair: sharing good library practices in support of the United Nations Literacy Decade 2003-2012

The half-day session was organised as an open, interactive, and participatory space for presenters which enabled them to display their materials, demonstrate experiences and products to participants and to discuss their projects, programmes and reading campaigns.

• Introductions: Ivanka Stricevic (Croatia), Gwynneth Evans (Canada) and Robert Sarjant (UK)

• All about IBBY—and what about children in crisis and books?
  PATSY ALDANA (IBBY, Toronto, Canada)
  français

• Donner le goût de lire en milieu défavorisé
  ANTOINETTE FALL CORREA (Bibliothèque-Lecture-Développement – BLD; CODE, Canada, Senegal)

  English

• The potential of national reading campaigns Experiences from Austria and the Netherlands in international perspective
  MARIAN KOREN (Public Library Association, Research and International Affairs, The Netherlands) and GERALD LEITNER (The Austrian Public Library Association, Austria)
  français

• Make the Stories You Tell Your Own
  ROBERT STELMACH alias MAX TELL (Storyteller, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada)
  français

• Time to Read and Estevan Area Literacy Group: results from two collaborative approaches to literacy
  GREGORY SALMERS (Southeast Regional Library, Saskatchewan, Canada)
  français

• The Holiday Reading Adventure (HRA) Programme in Namibia
  BERNADETTE H. MUKULU and E. R. MAKINZA (Ministry of Education, national Library of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia)
  français

• Getting to Know the Library: introducing adult learners (literacy, ESOL/FSL) to the resources and services of the public library
  BRENDA LIVINGSTON (Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Canada) and MARCIA ARONSON (Adult and Readers’ Advisory Services, Ottawa Public Library, Ottawa, Canada)

• The Locker-Room Librarian: The Maradona of literature dissemination
  STIG ELVIS FURSET (Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority, Oslo, Norway)
  français

• Mangan ra Mangan Moco Buku! – Eating or Starving, Read Books
  IDA F. PRIYANTO (Gadjah Mada University Library, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
  français

• Optimization and Sustainability – An Overview of Reading Promotion by the Hong Kong Public Libraries
  MARY MEI-LEE LAU CHENG (Hong Kong Public Libraries, Hong Kong)
  français

• Taking Library Services to Hospital Wards: A Case of Embu Provincial Hospital – Kenya
  AUGUSTINE MUSYOKI MUTISO (Kenya National Library Service, Embu, Kenya)
  français

• Nurturing a Nation of Readers: Sharing the Joy and Adventure of the Reading Experience through the Singapore public libraries
  SHARON THIEN (Service Management, Public Library Services, National Library Board, Singapore) and KIANG-KOH LAI LIN (Reading Initiatives, National Library Board, Singapore)

  français

• New Directions for Children’s Libraries in Africa: Publishing for Early Readers
  KATHY KNOWLES (Osu Childrens’ Library Fund, Winnipeg, Canada)
  français

• Au pays des ménagères-oiseau: de l’apprentissage à l’expression collective
  ANNICK GUINERY (Bibliothèque Municipale de Choisy le Roi, Choisy le Roi, France)

• La contribución de la biblioteca pública de América Latina y el Caribe a la formación de lectores. Avances de la Encuesta Internacional de Lectura
  ELSA RAMÍREZ LEYVA (Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas de la UNAM, México City, México)
  français

• El futuro bibliotecario y la lectura: un estudio de caso en la Universidad de La Habana
  MAJELA GUZMÁN GÓMEZ (Universidad de La Habana, Facultad de Comunicación, Departamento de Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
  français

• Creating reading environments: our initiatives in West Bengal, India
  RATNA BANDYOPADHYAY (University of Calcutta, The LIS Department, Calcutta, India
  français

• Centre national de la literature pour la jeunesse – la joie par les livres: des actions pour l’accès des enfants à ls lecture
  VIVIANA QUINONES (La Joie par les Livres – Centre national de la literature pour la jeunesse Paris, France
  English