Librarian to Librarian 2023

International School Librarianship in Changing Times

OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal

The continued “rise of migration, immigration, and remigration” (Auzina, 2018, p. 25) has now transformed classrooms into spaces for intercultural connections among children with multiple, hybrid, intersecting identities. This presentation aims to expand educators’ pedagogical toolkit (Ford et al., 2019) through the critical sharing of diverse picturebooks that are found to be effective in translating the tenets of culturally responsive (Haddix & Price-Dennis, 2012) and sustaining (Alim & Paris, 2017) pedagogies, as they navigate cultural prejudices and stereotyping (Robinson, 2013) and provide spaces to cultivate liberatory educators for a decolonial teacher education (Dominguez, 2017). Participants will be introduced to text-sets from around the world that engage in ‘restorying’ (Thomas, 2022) or counter-storytelling that serve to reclaim dignity, grace, and joy among marginalized communities and people of color.

Inspired by the The Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop (LKSW) in Southeast Asia, Librarian to Librarian is an annual professional development event for teacher-librarians and librarians who lead international schools libraries in the Middle East / Africa / European area. 

Its mission is to provide a welcoming environment for sharing and learning, where the delegates are the presenters together with additional keynote speakers, who are willing to give their time, at a minimal cost, to support this initiative.

Following the LKSW philosophy it is important that participation fees are kept low so that those working in less well-funded schools are not deterred from participation.

Date: October 26-27 2023

• Learn from and connect with librarians and teacher-librarians who lead libraries in International Schools
• Relevant, interesting presentations and speakers
• Opportunities to present and share
• Visit to the Mohammad Bin Rashid Library
• Social events!

Registration slots are now all FULL. If you wish to be put on a waiting list please contact Linda Hoiseth or Nadine Bailey

• This is an invitational workshop with a maximum of 50 participants. 
• Registrations will be accepted through October 1 or until 50 people are registered, whichever comes first.
• Before sharing this invitation with others, please contact lhoiseth@asdubai.org.
• Presentations will be curated based on participant interest and expertise.
• The workshop is free to attend. Participants will be responsible for their own expenses.

Open to a maximum of 50 participants who are qualified teacher librarians from International Schools with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.

This workshop will be centered on the principles outlined in the ALA Library Bill of Rights. 
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill
By registering for this workshop, you agree to support those principles while at the conference.