On June 14th this year we celebrated the launch of The Kid’s Own Travelling Library. Since then it has met with considerable success for its celebration of diversity, enabling communication, mutual respect and exchange among diverse elements in Ireland. Click below to see how it was received in Sligo
Call into Howth Library and check out the new collections of DVD’s, CDs, travel guides, and young adult fiction. Howth library staff have been working hard clearing out the old and bringing in the new! Howth Library, Main Street, Howth, Co. Dublin. Tel: 8322130 Fax: 8322277 Email:howthlibrary @ fingalcoco.ie
This course will provide an introduction to major authors of poetry, drama and prose through close examination of selected texts, chosen from among those prescribed for the Leaving Certificate in 2011. The course will be of special interest to teachers and pupils preparing for the examination but the lectures will be directed towards a more general audience as well.
There will be ten weekly lectures beginning on Tuesday 12th october 2010 at 7 p.m. in the Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin 2.
The course director is Professor Nicholas Grene and the ten topics of literature to be covered will include: William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault, Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, Shakespeare, Hamlet.
An Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan T.D launched The Public Library Research Programme Report Number 4 at Bundoran Community Library on 25th August 2010. Entitled,
“The Public Library and the School: Policies and Prospects for Library Services to Primary Schools in Ireland”
The report is the result of an extensive research project carried out with the help of City & County Librarians and school principals and teachers in Kerry, Wicklow, Dublin and Wexford.
The Report was set up to examine library services to primary schools and look at ways of improving service provision. The national and international research in the report and the primary school curriculum clearly identify the importance of access to books and reading in the 21st century educational experience and for lifelong development. This is a service valued by both schools and public libraries and also provides an important focus for liaison for teachers and public library staff.
Download the Report
For further information contact Annette Kelly, An Chomhairle Leabharlanna, 01 676 1167 or akelly@librarycouncil.ie
Young People’s Writing Squads, is a scheme run by Academi, the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors, in association with local authorities in Wales. The initiative aims at identifying young writers – in both English and Welsh – and introduce them to some of Wales leading writers, and teachers of writing. Read the feature on this project by writer Matthew Finch
Tags: Academi, Creative Writing, Wales, Young People
