Your School Library will hold its fourth international online conference May 25-June 10, 2010. The focus of the conference is everyone’s favourite topic–reading. Send a proposal if you have a success story, an award-winning program, a research project or a fantastic presentation. Our flexible online gathering brings together librarians from around the globe to share and engage.
Teacher librarians, school librarians, public librarians and academics interested in the areas of reading and literature are invited to submit proposals for the fast-approaching conference.
Sub-topics
- Reading research
- Boys and books
- Success stories: Integrating fiction across the curriculum
- Promoting reading through graphic novels
- Using author visits to promote reading
- Comprehension competitions, special reading contests, literature festivals
- Reading to advance social justice
- Bibliotherapy: New trends
- Reading and digital libraries for children
- Writing for children
Guidelines for proposals
- Presenter(s) names
- Presenter(s) positions and organization
- Title of presentation
- Area/topic (see list above)
- 100-200 word abstract of presentation
- Description of how you will present your content (voice over Powerpoint), Powerpoint with linked Youtube videos Voicethread, podcast, Authorstream , etc. Please note, we cannot accommodate video files.
Deadline for proposals: March 28
Notification by: April 4
Presentations due: May 20
Submit proposals to: abstracts.ysl@gmail.com
For more information: abstracts.ysl@gmail.com
Good night,
I`m a teacher librarian from C. Rainha, Portugal. I want to ask if the call for presentation is limited for participants in the conference, or if everybody can send a proposal. Thank you.
Yes, anyone can send in a proposal. Presenters are given full access to the conference.
There is a blind review process to select presentations.
Thanks for your interest.
Do you want the proposals to fall into one of the ten sub-topics listed above, or is any school library related topic fair game?
Hi Julie
We stick with our themes. What is your topic and what would you like YSL to focus on over the next 3 events? James
4) Keep Everything Simple Typically, readers tend to veer towards things that are short, simple and non-technical.