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New trends in European Children’s Libraries: telling the tale

Monday 21st of November 2011 from : 9.30am – 4.30 pm

Programme

9.15 am – Registration and Welcome – coffee/tea

9.45 am – Introduction

Director of the Institut Français: Mr Laurent Burin des Boziers, Cultural Counselor at theFrench Embassy, London, UK.

Chair of the conference: Mrs Annie Everall OBE, Consultant and Trainer, Children’sBooks, Libraries and Reading, UK representative on the IFLA Literacy and Reading section committee, Derbyshire, UK.

10 am – Children’s libraries in the UK: an overview of current challenges. Speaker: Mrs Annie Everall OBE, Consultant and Trainer, Children’s Books, Libraries and Reading, Derbyshire, UK.

10.45 am – Story-telling multilingual: multimedia in the International Youth Library. Speaker: Mrs Jutta Reusch, Head of the Department of “Library Services”, International Youth Library, Munich, Germany.

11.30 am – Inventing future in children’s libraries: experimentation and innovation with video games in the Petite Bibliothèque Ronde (Small Round Library). Speaker: Mrs Caroline Simon, Director, Petite Bibliothèque Ronde, Clamart, France.

12.15 pm – Visit of the Institut Français: children’s multimedia library and free digital library Culturethèque- www.culturetheque.org.uk Guide: Miss Ophélie Ramonatxo, Head Librarian, Institut Français, London, UK.

12.45 pm – Lunch Break at the Bistrot of the Institut Français

1.30 pm – Learning to read before you walk: Portuguese libraries for babies. Speaker: Mrs Ana Margarida Ramos (PhD), Professor of Literature and Children’s Literature at Aveiro University, Aveiro, Portugal.

2.15 pm – Promoting European language-materials in UK libraries: the Eurotoolbox. Presenter: Mr John Lake, Honorary Fellow of CILIP, ILIG Committee Member, London, UK.

3 pm – Coffee Break

3.15 pm – New roles in new reading contexts. Speaker: Mrs Elisa Yuste Turero, Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, Salamanca, Spain.

4 pm – Concluding Panel Discussion

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Venue: Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, 17 Queensberry Place – London SW7 2DT

Date: Monday, November 21st, 9.30am – 4.30 pm

Fee: £60 (concessions* £40) including lunch and drinks

Registrations: Download and send the registration form to library@ambafrance.org.uk

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Queensberry Place, LONDON SW7 2DT

Deadline for payments: November 21st 2011

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