📚 Feminist Librarianship Webinar
🗓️ 11 May | 7–8pm (Zoom)
🎟️ Free + recording available
Join Kirsten MacQuarrie & contributors to explore feminist practice in libraries, school spaces & beyond.
🎁 Plus book giveaway
🔗 www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#Libraries #Feminism #CILIP @cilip.bsky.social
WHAT DOES A 2026 CARNEGIE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR DO BEST?
simply stun her audience with her craft! @tiafisher.bsky.social came to FCHS to wow us. An absolute privilege and pleasure to host in the National Year of Reading! @cilipslg.bsky.social @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social
@carnegiemedals.bsky.social @cilipslg.bsky.social An enjoyable day spent with Barnet school librarians and students following Carnegie Medals where every school presented their shortlisted book. Votes were taken for the most popular book and King of Nothing was the winner.
Just a reminder that this FREE online book launch is next Wednesday 18th June at 6:30 pm. Register with SailFest and receive the link!
ALSO we have giveaways of all three beautiful books!
#kidlituk
#kidlit
#weneeddiversebooks #readingforpleasure
www.sailfest.org.uk
Thank you for this valuable freebie. Chuffed to receive a free copy for my schoollibrary
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Just over a week left to sign up to this amazing CPD training on AI in Education. @cilip.bsky.social
Join us at our online public Town Halls or roadshow sessions with member networks to share what you think CILIP should achieve by 2030 to help the profession grow its impact. We're consulting on our new 5-year strategy and we'd like to hear from you: www.cilip.org.uk/news/news.as...
SecEd Podcast: In a new episode, we speak to school #librarians to ask what makes for excellent #library provision in the secondary school, including ideas for supporting #curriculum delivery, #literacy & the library's wider role: buff.ly/hFbDpWV #GreatSchoolLibraries #edusky
School librarians you need this CPD - sign up!
Scholastic are delighted to be the official book supplier for the Carnegie Awards 2025
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Book places at their week of online book events, from 28th April – 2nd May, to celebrate the shortlist for secondary schools at
shop.scholastic.co.uk/the-carnegie...
@empathylabuk.bsky.social are running two fab April training sessions on Reading for Empathy—one on boys & reading, one on school transitions. SLG price: £15! 👉 empathylab.uk/short-traini...
Don’t miss the Empathy Day Festival this June! 👉 empathylab.uk #EmpathyDay @cilip.bsky.social
You absolutely deserve the recognition! Had it not been for your generous network of librarians that you have created, I would never have known about all what Canva has taught me. Thank you!
AI vs Teachers -Can AI replace educators? This weeks newsletter. #Aiedu #AI #TLSky #EduSkyAi open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
📢 Join us for the SLG AGM! 📢
🗓 Tuesday, 18th March
⏰ 7:00–8:30 pm (Zoom)
Featuring talks from:
✨ Louis Coffait-Gunn (CILIP CEO) & Jo Morgan (Author) Free to attend!
Register here 👉 cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#SchoolLibraries #SLGAGM #CILIP #JoMorgan #Education
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This is a helping hand for new school librarians. Ideas for World Book Day.
Caroline Roche our amazing chair has written a reflective blog about the amazing year that SLG had in 2024. You can read the blog in the following link: londonslg.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/l... Here's to an impactful 2025 with more training, advocacy, & community growth. @cilip.bsky.social
📚 Holocaust Memorial Day in the Library 🎗️
SLG’s Anaïs Cayzac shares a powerful blog on using White Bird by R.J. Palacio to teach empathy, kindness & remembrance. Includes a memorial display & creative activities. Read more 👉 londonslg.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/h...
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Thinking about Chartership? Join CILIP SLG for a free online practical workshop with experienced mentor Barbara Band! She’ll show you how to link your school library projects to the PKSB and portfolio evidence. More info in the following link: cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
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🚀 Join Us at the FOSIL Symposium: Revolutionising Education Through Inquiry 🌍 We invite you to be part of a transformative event exploring the power of inquiry-based learning. Secure your place today! fosil.org.uk/event/fosil-...
I'm a huge fan of Kwame Alexander. Would love to have this sequel. Thanks
Happy new year! RP to win a copy of 'Beyond the Secret Garden' by Darren Chetty & Karen Sands O’Connor. Trace how Black & racially minoritised characters have been represented in ‘the secret garden’ of British children’s literature from its earliest stages.
How to spot fake news infographic from IFLA
How can our sector spot and challenge fake news and misinformation? Follow these 8 simple steps from @iflaglobal.bsky.social giving you practical advice on how to verify what you're reading and check that what you're reading is telling you the truth. #FactsMatter www.ifla.org/news/how-to-...
56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
Hello children's book lovers. Here's my first Reading Matters Children's Book News round up of 2025.
A look back at the best of 2024, a preview of books in the coming months. There are free events & resources too so why not settle down and explore. #UKKidLit
alibrarylady.blog/2025/01/04/r...
Calling all teachers to enter their class in The Book That Represents Me competition @booktrust.bsky.social www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p.... Guest judges are @sharnajackson.com & @michaelmann.bsky.social with MOST AMAZING PRIZES inc £3000 of books (thank you @enterprisemobility.bsky.social)
Congratulations on your 8th job anniversary. Your library looks lovely!
CILIP School Libraries Group is the number one body which represents the school librarians in every practical way - there are so many CPD opportunities coming in the new year. So proud to support this invaluable group. Merry Christmas!