NEWS
Is swapping sectors easy?
A CILIP Webinar, Career Tales: Moving between sectors, featuring three speakers who have moved between library sectors will take place on 27 April.
If you are considering working in a dif- ferent sector and have ever wondered how hard it might be to make the move, these speakers will share their experiences. Which sectors did they move to and from? Why did they make the move? How did they prepare for the move? What learning points would they share with others? You will have an opportunity to put your questions to the speakers after their talks. For more details visit
https://bit.ly/3vOO8Y7.
Submarine returns
to Portsmouth The Forgotten Submarine has been returned to Portsmouth City Council’s library service after being on loan for over 60 years. The council said Jill Davies rescued the book from a roadside in 1957 and “expressed her concerns about the fines the original borrower received” and was “delighted” Portsmouth has scrapped over- due library fines. In a letter to the council Jill said: “As an avid reader, there was no way I was going to return the book until I had read it – which I did, and thoroughly enjoyed. But the one thing I never got around to doing was taking it to the library.”
Beano survey launch ‘Libraries Aloud’
MORE than a quarter (26 per cent) of children have never visited a library in the UK, according to a survey carried out for children’s comic Beano for the launch of its new children’s reading initiative – ‘Libraries Aloud’.
The Survey by the Literacy Trust also found that children have not visited their local libraries in over three years and 84 per cent of parents would like to visit their local library more often.
Over half of children (55 per cent) admit to being put off by the thought of going to the library because they think they need to stay quiet. More details at
www.beano.com/ LibrariesAloud.
8 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL
Sign up for Medals Shadowing scheme
WITH this year’s Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Medals shortlists just announced, now is the perfect time for schools and library groups to sign up for this year’s Shadowing scheme.
The scheme is an opportunity for young people to get involved in the awards by reading and reviewing the shortlisted books, taking part in creative activities and picking their own favourites. Each spring and summer, the scheme sees thousands of young people take part in Shadowing Groups, and each year they get to vote for their favourite to win the Shadowers’ Choice – awarded alongside the two Medals at a special winner cere- mony event in June.
Award organisers want the shadowing scheme to open up new reading expe- riences to young readers by engaging them with outstanding shortlisted titles, saying: “Shadowing is a fun, flexible, reading for pleasure activity to inspire and engage young readers! You can decide how you want to run your own Shadowing Group to explore the Yoto Carnegie and Kate Greenaway shortlists and share outstanding books with your students. The simplest way is to work with a small group, reading and discuss-
ing books, through regular meetings, either in person or online.
“The Yoto Carnegie and Kate Green-
away books offer outstanding reading experiences that inspire lively debate, discussion and creative responses in young people. Your group can come together to share their thoughts on what they are reading, write reviews and create artwork which they can share online.” This year’s groups will draw from books on the 2022 Shortlists (see pp. 34- 37), and give children the chance to have their say on potential winners. Schools and reading groups can join the scheme and order books from both or either Medal shortlist at a discounted price through Peters, the official awards book supplier (
https://peters.co.uk/ckg). The Shadowing scheme is supported by a variety of resources to help group leaders make the most of the shortlisted books, with tips and ideas on planning sessions, a range of shadowing toolkits, exclusive interviews with the shortlisted authors and illustrators and a dedicat- ed website with specific areas for each shortlisted book.
For full details on the shadowing scheme and how to sign up, visit https://
carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/take-part.
Eurotoolbox goes on tour
EUROTOOLBOX, the free resource for librarians and teachers who need to inspire children with the latest chil- dren’s books in European languages, is touring the UK.
The collections are put together by Eurolis, a group of expert librarians in the cultural centres of France, Germany (until 2022), Italy, Portugal, Poland and Spain with the assistance of CILIP in the UK. The 2021-22 collection is touring the UK and booked until November 2022 already. It was launched in September with an illustrated talk by Carnegie/Greenaway shortlisted author Sharon King Chai at the Victoria Library in Westminster. Collections from previous years are also available so there is plenty of choice.
All the books in the collection are individually selected, high quality, recently published books in seven origi- nal languages: French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, with the English language represented thanks to a donation by CILIP of the books shortlisted for the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway children’s books awards. The resource enables librarians and teachers to use over 60 books in each collection for individual reading or group sessions in their libraries or schoolrooms for a month at a time. There is no cost other than onward transportation to the next library location in the UK. For details on how to borrow Eurotoolbox, Contact Mariella Reidy,
mariellareidy@gmail.com.
March 2022
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