Agenda and Minutes for 2024-2025 ISLN Meetings
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026
Ordinary Meeting
Date: Tue, Feb. 3, 2026
Time: 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start
Venue: International French School
Slides: LINK
Minutes: LINK
Date: Monday, Nov. 24, 2025
Ordinary Meeting
Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2025
Time: 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start
Venue: Singapore American School, Elementary School Library
Slides: LINK
Minutes: LINK
Date: Thursday, Sep 11, 2025
Ordinary Meeting
Date: Sep 11, 2025
Time: 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start
Venue: Tanglin Trust School, Senior Library
Slides: LINK
Minutes: LINK
Date: May 20, 2025
AGM & Ordinary Meeting
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start
Venue: Stamford American School
Slides: LINK
Minutes: LINK
Date: February 19, 2025
Ordinary Meeting
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025
Time: 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start
Venue: Nexus International School
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | Item |
Katie Day | Attendance - about 30 people A PDF of the slides of her talk will have been shared via our Google Group (internal to ISLN) | 5pm | RSVP list:
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Katie Day | Intro |
| See MEETING SLIDES for information presented. Nothing new was decided or voted upon. |
Katie Day | Lucky door prizes |
| $20 Kate London $50 Fiona Shea |
Katie Day | Next meeting date & venue? May 20 AGM @ Stamford American School | ||
Mary Wheatley | Future Red Dot | 6:00 pm |
Ordinary Meeting
Date: Monday, November 11th
Time: 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start
Venue: Elementary Library, Singapore American School
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | Item |
Katie Day | Attendance - about 30 people Also: Karl from Every Page Counts | 5pm |
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Katie Day | Intro |
| See MEETING SLIDES for information presented. Nothing new was decided or voted upon. |
Katie Day | Lucky door prizes |
| Winners: Mark Alceso $20, Mischele Jamgochian $50 |
Katie Day | Next meeting date & venue? | ||
Mary Wheatley | Future Red Dot | 6:30 pm | Approximately 15 people stayed on for the Red Dot discussion |
September 12, 2024
Ordinary Meeting
Date: Thursday, Sep. 12, 2024
Time: 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start
Venue: Secondary Library, Canadian International School Lakeside
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | Item |
Katie Day | Attendance - 29 people + Gary Gray, speaker | 5pm |
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Katie Day | Intro |
| See MEETING SLIDES for information presented. Nothing new was decided or voted upon. |
Katie Day | Lucky door prizes |
| Winners: Karen Melski $20, Jasmine Scott $50 |
Katie Day | Next meeting date & venue? | ||
Mary Wheatley | Future Red Dot | 6 pm | Approximately 13 people stayed on for the Red Dot discussion and pizza |
Agenda and Minutes for 2023-2024 ISLN Meetings
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2024
ISLN Extraordinary General Meeting – May 30, 2024
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2024
Time: 5:30 for a 6pm start
Venue: Quentin’s Restaurant, Eurasian Museum
Name | Area of Discussion | Action Required |
Katie Day | Establish a quorum of financial members Roll call and Secretary records who is present. Call for recognizing new auditor for 2023 Auditors’ Report Call for vote to approve the 2023 Auditors’ Report | As of 11 May there are 54 voting members; Roll call of members attending: Jane Hayes; Joanne Wilson; Deniz Rafferty; Shirley Roser; Susan Grigsby; Angela Erickson; Fiona Shea; Kumari Rajarm; Rhonda Smith; Katie Day; Janine Murphy, Barb Reid, Kate Brundage; Maricela Navarrete; Kate London; Lisa Miller; Olivia Burford-Taylor; Chiara Grisanzio; Jessica Saiya; Denise Tan Kumari Rajarm did not attend and Denise Tan is not a voting member AUDITORS: Call for vote to approve the appointment of Olivia Burford-Taylor as an Honorary Auditor to fulfill the role of Susan Grigsby, who was unable to do the 2023 Audit within the two weeks and who agreed to let Olivia Burford-Taylor be appointed by the Exec Committee – and confirmed by the members – to do it. Susan Grigsby will still be the Honorary Auditor for the 2024 report.
2023 AUDITORS’ REPORT Call for vote to accept the 2023 Auditors’ Report – full audit information FILE
End of business. Meeting adjourned at 18:22 |
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024
ISLN AGM Meeting – May 15, 2024
Name | Agenda Items See separate official agenda and minutes document | ISLN AGM Meeting Wed, 15th May, 2024, 5:00 pm start Venue: Dulwich College Singapore |
Katie Day | Establish a quorum of financial members Roll call and Secretary records who is present. Acceptance of minutes from the 20203 AGM Auditors Report: DELAYED Call for two Honorary Auditor Nominations - for appointment to a two-year term | As of 11 May there are 54 voting members; Roll call of members present: James Barlien; Barb Reid; Patricia David; Adrienne Hill; Reena Khanna; Tanja Galetti; Katie Day; Rhonda Smith; Amy Bishop; Olivia Burford-Taylor; Faizah Ibrahimsa; Maricela Navarrete; Shiv Walker; Mary Wheatley; Jessica Saiya; Joanne Wilson; Pridhee Gupta; Leela Titus; Kristi Olivares; Susan Grigsby; Angela Erickson; Sabine Kleer; Mairin Raisdana; Kate Brundage; Fiona Shea; Dee Costello; Kate London; Michael Kelly; Jane Hayes Voting order (Secret Ballot where more than 2 candidates)
Who made the first motion to vote? Rhonda Smith Who seconded it? Mairin Raisdana Two honorary auditors nominated for 2024:
Who made the first motion to vote? Angie Erickson Who seconded it? Rhonda Smith Explanation of delay of Auditors’ Report - due to Raquel Potaka, one of the auditors, leaving Singapore in December 2023 Audit will be done by new auditors within one month. |
Name | Area of Discussion | ISLN Network Meeting Wed, 15th May, 2024, 5:00 pm start Venue: Dulwich College Singapore |
See MEETING SLIDES | ||
Katie Day | Leavers and Joiners | See slides |
Lisa Miller | Readers festival | See slides |
Mairin | Red dot | See slides |
Barb | Epic schools consortium | See slides |
Katie Day | Professional Development | See slides |
Katie Day | Social events | See slides |
Katie Day | Lucky door prizes | Patricia $50 Faizah Ibrahimsa $20 |
Date: Monday, February 19, 2024
Ordinary Meeting – Feb. 19, 2024
Time: 4:30pm for 5:00pm start / 5:30pm end followed by Red Dot meeting
Venue: Singapore American School – Senior School Library
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | ISLN Network Meeting Monday, 19th February, 5:00 pm start Venue: Singapore American School |
See MEETING SLIDES | |||
Katie Day | Intro |
| Welcome to the ISLN network meeting |
Katie Day
| Upcoming meetings |
| Next meeting is the AGM at Dulwich on May 15th Meeting slides and links all available on slides on google docs |
Katie Day | Exec Committee |
| New exec committee has been nominated and will be voted at next AGM
Liaison Officer - Need to co-opt someone |
Barb Reid | Finance Update |
| Balance last meeting: (SGD) 22, 683.16 Current balance: 20,046.89 Invoices have been sent for readers festival and annual membership See Michael if you haven’t received it or it is incorrect Please don’t put too many names on membership as we need enough attendees for a quorum. Please only put people on membership who are active voting members and regularly attend. Michael is happy to update the members of your school. |
Mairin, | Red Dot |
| The voting form is up and live. Red dot website can have the librarians vote and Closes May 1st How do people vote for red dots? You can make up your own rules. Every school will have their own winner and it is really about encouraging kids to read. Winning books announced 11 May |
Katie Day | Leavers and Joiners |
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Lisa Miller | Readers festival |
| Students on the winning team decide on the charity. Please reach out if you are looking for ideas or support for running red dot. Returning to a live event as the festivals were run pre covid. Please ensure children are accompanied as per your schools adult child ratio. The event will be held at SAS. Please let us know asap if you will participate in the quiz. The maximum team number is six kids but you can have as many teams as you like. Volunteers please sign up with Lisa Miller. Barb has reservations about coming on a Saturday. Can UWCSEA please have an after school event? Could the teacher questions come out at the start of the school year, August? It is difficult to justify the price of the festival as the questions are no longer professionally written and the live event is on a Saturday which makes it difficult to attend. It will be clearly delineated which quiz is written by students and which is written by teachers. Please record the page number where the question is sourced from. |
Mairin | Red dot |
| Lunar new year made scheduling difficult which is why the next meeting is in April. There may be a few online meetings in the coming months. Final list needs to be completed by the 10th May. Please make sure you have read the entire book before adding to the spreadsheet. Please don’t add new books at this point as we are focussed on reading what we already have. |
Barb | Epic schools consortium |
| Barb will tell her contact that schools need invoices so they can be paid in the next budgeting year and that people have complete access over the holidays. Prices cannot go up again. If you ask Daniel, he will send data on who is reading and how much. Barb has a meeting about what is happening with the admin dashboard and possible changes for the new school year. |
Katie Day | Professional Development |
| UWCSEA will host the next job alike. You can access all of the LKSW presentations from the event. You can also see Singapore librarians top take aways from the event. The next LKSW will be in Penang in November. Please consider joining the Get Lit book club event. |
Katie Day | Social events |
| Please let Kim know if you would like to join the dim sum cooking class. We need 6 people to sign up. Kimberley Wong will send a reminder for silent book club. |
Katie Day | Lucky door prizes |
| $20 Kate Brundage $50 Michael Kelly |
Angie Erickson | Barb is leaving |
| Angie needs to organise a borrow box event as she is taking over the role. The event will be while Barb is still here so people can ask questions. |
Date: Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023
Ordinary Meeting - Nov. 30, 2023
Time: 4:30pm for 5:00pm start / 5:30pm end followed by Red Dot meeting
Venue: Tanglin Trust School – Senior School Library
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | Tuesday, 7th February, Normal Meeting |
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Katie Day | Intro |
| Welcome to the ISLN network meeting |
Katie Day
| Upcoming meetings |
| February: Dover Court has volunteered, but exact date not set yet. Possibly the week before Lunar New Year, which is when Susan Grigsby (Stamford) has a visiting librarian professor from the States – who would make a wonderful keynote speaker. From Susan’s email: <<b who is the Director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa Graduate College. She will be here from 6-13 February. She would like to visit both international and local school libraries. If you would like for Dr. Green to visit your school library, please let me know. Also, if you have contacts with any local school librarians OR know someone that works at NLB that could arrange a visit, please let me know. If you would like to read a little more about Dr. Green and her work you can take a look here and here.>> |
Katie Day | Exec Committee update |
| New webmaster needed as Kim Beeman is leaving in February, so Siobhan Walker (Dover Court) has agreed to be co-opted. Handover will happen before end of January. New treasurer needed because Kim Fyffe (Dulwich) was it, but as she is leaving, Barb Reid (UWC East) – who was the treasurer previously – was co-opted back temporarily (as she is leaving in June). Michael Kelly (Tanglin) has volunteered to be co-opted as the new Treasurer. Need to get this done long before June as it takes time to get new authorized signatory on DBS bank account. So the roster of officers on the Executive Committee is now (new co-opted members in bold): Executive Committee:
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Barb Reid | Finance Update |
| Balance last meeting: (SGD) 23,134.11
Current balance: (SGD) 22,683.16 |
Mairin, | Red Dot |
| Red Dot discussions will be after this meeting. Please print the current posters for your library. Huge thanks to Raquel Potaka (AISS) for leading the Early/Younger discussion group – and to Michael Kelly (Tanglin) for taking over from her.
Mairin says final shortlist needs to be done by May and one meeting a month until then with possible multiple meetings in May. January will be the next meeting. Please see the Recommendation Spreadsheet for links to the two WhatsApp discussion groups. http://bit.ly/reddotrecs |
Katie Day | Leavers and Joiners |
| Welcome:!
Good-bye! (some soon, some in June)
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Barb Reid | Epic |
| The Epic consortium has started and Barb will try to get usage statistics for ISLN. See the slides for details.
There should be a dashboard out next year which will make things easier. |
Kim Fyffe (Dulwich), Kate Brundage (SAS) | Copyright situation in Singapore: update |
| Copyright update: for proft schools you need a licence as they don’t have an exemption. One to one licence copies are needed or explicit permission. Streaming video – there are special services that are available for public use but cannot use your personal account as they don’t have a public domain
Non profit school is still 10% and the deck from Lisa Miller has good examples. Please see what SAS is doing. You can buy a media licence which allows you to show things. UWC has the licence but that doesn’t allow teachers to log in to their own personal accounts and a company licence is too expensive so they have gone back to DVDs.
There are 100 netflix documentaries which are fair use.
Canopy kids is only for public libraries. Epic will allow to show online but can’t be copied
At the February meeting we will summarise copyright again as this information is important and it can be detrimental if the library doesn’t understand
Please see meeting slides for further links. |
Kim Fyffe, Jane Hayes, & Fiona Shea (Dulwich) | Dulwich International Book Awards |
| The three Dulwich librarians gave a presentation on their Dulwich Information Book Award or DIBAS – which highlights non-fiction books. See their slides in the meeting slidedeck for details. |
Katie Day | Professional Development |
| The Singapore Writers Festival had many great talks and authors. The early bird pass is good value and worthwhile to see all of the beautiful venues
Stojana Popovska (CIS), Kim Beeman (Tanglin), and Katie Day (Tanglin) gave feedback on the Librarian 2 Librarian conference held in Dubai in October. See the slides for links and details. Tanglin is hosting the annual Job-Alike for Library Staff on Friday, January 5th. The JAW will start in the Senior Library at Tanglin and then participants will go to UWC Dover for library tours. They are still appealing for presentations – it doesn’t matter how short the presentations are – 5 to 10 mins is enough. January 18-20 is the next Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop.
AUTHOR VISITS:
Dulwich wants to bring out an author for book week. They want Jonathan Meres who is a great presenter but his books are not incredibly popular. If anyone would like him to visit their school please contact Fiona |
Jane Hayes | Social events |
| There are still spots available for the ISLN holiday & farewell event to be held on Thursday, Dec. 7th, 2023.
Rhonda suggested Escape @ Science Centre as a social event. There is a nice craft beer place nearby for after the escape room. Date: Saturday January 13th. Jane is open to all social event ideas. Just contact her.
Kimberly Wong (UWC Dover) talked about an event all are welcome to join – the first Sunday of every month. Silent Book Club is where you sit together and read in a coffee shop, but with no assigned books. Everyone just brings what they want to read. The new Singapore chapter of this international initiative is being hosted at the new independent book store called The Book Bar on Duxton Road.
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Lisa Miller | Readers Festival |
| Lisa has released the dates for the 2024 Readers Festival. See the meeting slides.
If you would like to participate you need to provide Kahoot practice questions to help build a community of readers.
There will be a physical get together hosted by SAS and there will be a celebration and authors.
Every school does it differently and so Lisa is happy to connect you with other librarians who are aligned with your school.
Please send ideas to Lisa for the festival.
Question: If it is student driven, what happens if students don’t want to write the questions? The practice questions will come from different schools and be shared.
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Katie Day | Door prizes |
| Door prizes – 2 prizes
Kimberley Wong $20 voucher
Katie Day $50 voucher
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Katie Day | AOB |
| The meeting slides have great embedded links so please look them over afterwards.
Barb wants to know if anyone attended the new British schools library network? It is online and Barb will put the link on the google group. The meeting was adjourned at 6pm. |
Date: September 5, 2023
Ordinary Meeting - Sept. 5, 2023
Time: 4:30pm for 5:00pm start
Venue: Senior Library, United World College, Dover campus
Name | Area of Discussion | Action Required |
Meeting slides LINK – which contains the information shared as well as embedded links to everything | ||
Katie Day | Welcome & Tours | |
Presentations:
Door prizes: gift certificates:
POST-MEETING: 6pm: Future Red Dot book discussion & pizza |
Agenda and Minutes for 2022-2023 ISLN Meetings
Date: Monday, May 15th, 2023
Annual General Meeting
Time: 4:30pm for 5:00pm start
Venue: Senior Library, Canadian International School
Name | Area of Discussion | Action Required |
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Katie Day Katie Day | Proxy votes collected Establish a quorum of financial members President’s Report Treasurer's Report (appointment of auditors) | No proxies submitted Current membership : currently 33 financial / voting members as of 11th May 12 member schools and 1 corporate member Members Present : 18 List of schools and members available on the website: www.isln.org.sg Acceptance of AGM 2023 Minutes: Moved: Kim Beeman Seconded: Olivia Burford-Taylor Passed unanimously Incoming Executive Committee – voted unanimously:
2023 President’s Report: please see slides 3 to 20 In response to the ISLN value survey, the AGM will be a summary of the past year. Katie Day will show members how the money is spent and what we do to support librarians within the network. Introducing ISLN and the opportunities it affords to new members. How ISLN became a registered society. : in 2008, ISLN put on a conference, Hands on Literacy, 400 teachers and librarians came to the event but it was not servicing librarians so they made it smaller. Due to making money through the conferences they needed to incorporate and formalised ISLN. Traffic to website – 142 members and 150 original posts The AGM needs 9 official members to constitute a quorum and make this an official AGM. Members who haven’t managed to pay in time are not officially part of the quorum so the membership numbers are higher than they appear Outgoing Exec committee as seen on slides Kate Brundage (SAS) did not pay the membership fees in time and so Kate Brundage is no longer the liaison manager of exec committee. The role will be filled by Karen Melski (Nexus) ISLN network meetings, liaison relationships, professional development, Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop and other events from the previous year Overview of previous year Moved: Kim Beeman Seconded: Olivia Burford-Taylor Passed unanimously
Financial year runs Jan-Dec Tax return submitted on time Kim Fyffe registered with Corpass and IRAS Raquel and Fiona are still the auditors and this will be their second year in the voluntary role. Move to pass the Treasurer's report Moved: Kim Beeman Seconded: Olivia Burford Taylor Passed unanimously End of AGM |
BEGINNING OF REGULAR NETWORK MEETING
Date: Monday, 15th May 2023
Time: 5:30pm start followed by CIS library tour and dinner
Venue: Canadian International School
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | Tuesday, 15th May, Normal Meeting | ||||||||
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Kim Fyffe | Finance update |
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We will no longer passively make money through book depository We also put money towards entertainment Nearly all membership fees have come in. $183 from AWIN in March and we paid the Quizmaster Tax bill paid in March $60.69 | ||||||||
Katie Day
| Leavers and Joiners |
| For paid school members there is up to $100 per mentor/mentee combo available Please welcome Amy Bishop (AIS) new member and Jasmine Scott (Tanglin) who will be taking over for Kurt Wittig’s sabbatical | ||||||||
Susan Grigsby | Elaine Fong farewell |
| Susan gives a heartfelt goodbye speech for Elaine | ||||||||
Katie Day | ISLN charity contribution |
| ISLN has supported the Gurkha Contingent reading club through donations and the purchase of scanners and barcodes Can schools donate books or library furniture to support the Gurkha Contingent after school reading club? | ||||||||
Katie Day | Online book vendors |
| ISLN is gathering information from the network about online book vendors now that Book Depository has closed. Amazon charges per shipment which becomes expensive When you place an order with Blackwells it is difficult to match the invoices to orders Please continue to share information about this as it affects most school libraries | ||||||||
Barb Reid | eBook consortium |
| We need someone from ISLN to manage the situation with Borrowbox. The books are chosen by librarians/schools. You can also upload students books onto the platform which students can borrow. One book can be borrowed by one person. Epic is free and in 2014 you would have access to all of the books but as time has passed the service has changed and it is no longer as accessible. It is now moving to a paid version Catherine and Barb spoke to epic and told the representative that paying $12 per student was unrealistic. Why should schools go with the paid version of epic? Epic schools plus will give an admin dashboard, smaller schools will have 24 hrs 7 days a week access and if we successfully form a consortium, smaller schools will be able to join. We are only considered to be a consortium thanks to ISLN and we will get a 40% discount. They have great selection of Chinese, Spanish and French books Who is interested in joining this consortium for the next school year? | ||||||||
Lisa Miller | Red Dot and Readers Festival |
| The 23rd May will be the end of the readers festival and the live authors talks. The quiz winners and new red dots will also be announced Here is the link to the Red Dot spreadsheet. All of the books that were nominated are also there. It is a great place to look for books to order. You can get the bibliography and purchasing info from all of the slides and the website will also be updated with this information. This slideshow is the 32 books of next years Red Dot Readers festival update – the finances can be found on slide 31 This year the author talks have been recorded so that schools can watch it at different times. There are questions about when the author talks are accessible and that they are only available to students participating in the readers festival. This makes it difficult for some schools to use these recordings. Barb would like a survey from ISLN for schools about how many kids are benefitting from the author talks in this current format and if we should possibly go back to the live readers festival. The survey will go out and the results will be shared with ISLN members | ||||||||
Katie Day | AFCC |
| There is a discount for ISLN members - 20%. There will be lots of members presenting or moderating | ||||||||
Katie Day | LKSW |
| The next conference will be held at Jakarta International School | ||||||||
Jane Hayes | Upcoming social events and meetings |
| If your school is not on holiday please sign up for the upcoming events If your school would like to host a meeting in the new academic year, please contact ISLN | ||||||||
Katie Day | Lucky door prizes |
| Shiv Walker has won the $20 voucher Kate London has won the $50 voucher Barb Reid has won a postcard pack Maricela Navarette has won a postcard pack Kim Fyffe has won a postcard pack Clare Gilpin has won the Seashell Collector Mairin Raisdana has won the Seashell Collector |
Date: Tuesday, 7th February 2023
Time: 4:00pm for 4:30pm start / 5:30pm end followed by Dulwich library tour and Red Dot meeting
Venue: Dulwich International School – Junior School Library
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | Tuesday, 7th February, Normal Meeting |
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Katie Day | Intro |
| Welcome to the ISLN network meeting and introducing Gerry Savage from Room to Read |
Gerry Savage
| Room to Read presentation
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| Room to Read is an organisation that promotes literacy and education.
Literacy cloud is their digital library. It can be accessed from their website and has free online versions of the Room to Read books. They come in many different languages and are organised in collections. |
Katie Day | General ISLN updates |
| Brief overview of the ISLN mission and goals
The google group currently has 143 members but not all of them are in Singapore
Please welcome Patricia the new librarian at Hwa Chong and Rhonda the new librarian from ICS
Introducing the executive committee for the new members
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Kim Fyffe | Finance Update |
| Kim Fyffe is the new treasurer but if you can still ask Barb Reid any finance related queries
The current DBS balance is $21,356.6 |
Mairin, Lisa Miller, Kate Brundage | Red Dot and Readers Cup Festival |
| The current red dot shortlists can be found on the website
You can also find the red dot promotional posters on the website
Kate Brundage and Lisa Miller have created this spreadsheet of authors and illustrators information. Schools can find information regarding what they would charge for virtual or in person visits.
The readers cup festival quiz will be cone via Kahoots which means we can have an unlimited number of teams. The website has been updated with practice questions that you can do with your students to get them excited for the festival. The quiz will run for one week and you can see the relevant dates on the website
Here is the link to the spreadsheet. All of the books that were nominated are also there. It is a great place to look for books to order.
The future Red Dot selections will be shown and discussed at the next ISLN meeting. Please add your recommendations and ensure that you have read the book before suggesting it.
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Katie Day | Professional Development updates |
| SAS held a very successful job alike with library officers from all over Singapore.
ISLN will share the presentations from the job alike on the google group.
We are currently looking for a school to host the next job alike workshop. We are hoping for a confirmed host school by June |
Kim Beeman | LKSW |
| Please have a look at the LKSW website as you can see a preview of presentations and introduce yourself to the other attendees
Please come to the public Emily Drabinski talk which will be held in the Tanglin Senior Library, Wednesday 15th February |
Katie Day | AFCC |
| Calls for moderators for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content – please contact Kim Beeman. The conference will be held from 25 to 28 May 2023 |
Katie Day | Upcoming meetings |
| We are waiting for confirmation from CIS regarding the next meeting on May 15th. |
Jane Hayes | Social |
| The next social event will be held at Golden Mile complex on the 12thFebruary.
Please sign up here: Golden Mile Complex Sign-Up Sheet.docx |
Kim Beeman | Challenged Books |
| Kim created this presentation on challenged books for the management team at Tanglin. Slides are linked. Please feel free to copy or use this in reference to your own schools or libraries Discussion surrounding challenged books in Singapore international schools
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Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Time: 4:00pm for 4:30pm start / 6:00pm end
Venue: Singapore American School – Middle School Library, 40 Woodlands Street 41, Singapore 738547
Unable to attend:
Karen Melski (Nexus)
Kate London, etc. (German-European School – have staff meeting - no one can attend today)
Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover)
Ali Cuthbert (SAS)
Janine Murphy (Tanglin)
Raquel Potaka (AISS)
Rhonda Smith (International Community School)
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | Thursday, September 15 Normal Meeting |
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Katie Day | Intro |
| Joiners or First-Timers: o Monica Vega (SAS - Middle School) - thank you to Monica for hosting the meeting and other SAS staff members for all the work in prep for meeting o Ella Ghapar - One World International School o Rhonda Smith – International Community Schools
Leavers: No leavers this month
Paying members qualify for a “mentor” - where they are matched with someone in a similar position in the school – mentor & mentee given funds to support a social get together
To let Katie know if interested.
Katie – reiterated the ISLN objectives: 1. Provide networking opportunities for school library staff and other interested parties 2. Promote the continuing professional development of teacher librarians and school library staff 3. Share, develop and publish materials which will provide the development of school libraries and teacher librarianship 4. Cooperate and liaise with other associations and bodies with similar aims and fields of interest.
137 members of online Google Group
Google Group email – issln@googlegroups.com
Executive Committee President - Katie Day (Tanglin) ●Vice President - Jane Hayes (Dulwich) ●Secretary - Kate London (GESS) ●Treasurer - Kim Fyffe (Dulwich) – co-opted when Barb Reid stepped down on 29 September ●Webmaster - Kim Beeman (Tanglin) ●Red Dot Coordinator - Mairin Raisdana (UWC East) ●Readers Festival Coordinator - Lisa Miller (CIS) ●Liaison Officer - Kate Brundage (SAS) |
Katie Day | Finance Update
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| Current PayPal balance: 593 SGD
Current DBS balance: 20,451.03 SGD |
Lisa Millar | Readers Festival Update |
| History of Red Dot Book Awards provided – see slides
Commitment to participate in Readers Festival & Quiz –due in April in terms of signing up and paying
Teams vary in response to various school cultures, needs and restrictions – monitor the website for ongoing updates
Readers Festival Quiz – Things to know: · Team size: Teams should have a maximum of six students; if a school cannot field a team, they can enter an individual but only if absolutely necessary. · Number of teams per school: Each school can enter an unlimited number of teams in each category. · The competition categories are: · Younger Readers (Years 3 to 5 / Grades 2 to 4) · Older Readers (Years 5 to 8 / Grades 4 to 7) · Mature Readers (Years 8+ / Grades 7+) · The ISLN Readers Festival Quiz questions will be shared on Kahoot! · For each book, there is a quiz comprised of approximately 10 questions. They are not timed rounds. · There is one tie-breaker round. It has 10 questions, a few from each book. This round IS timed. This round is NOT used to calculate the winner unless there is a tie after the initial rounds are calculated. · Virtual author events for the 2023 Readers Festival will be announced by December 31
Readers Festival Timeline:
· February 7: ISLN network meeting: Titles for quiz announced & practice questions released · March 1: Team registration opens · 27 April: Deadline for Readers Festival payment and registration of the number of teams per school per division · May 2: Deadline to submit names of all participants on each team · Mon-Fri, May 15-19: Readers Festival Quiz (5 days) may be completed anytime during this period (SJII timing to be from Fri May 12 because Tues is a non-student day) · Tue, May 23: Readers Festival - Readers Festival Quiz winners announced, Red Dot winners announced, Next Year’s Red Dot shortlist announced, virtual, synchronous author talks (recording availability TBD)
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Mairin | Red Dot |
| Discussing current red dot selections and explaining to new members that the red dot is curated by ISLN and the winners are chosen by students
Authors and illustrators information – spreadsheet created by Kate Brundage and Lisa Millar for what they would charge for virtual or in person visits can be found on the red dot author info spreadsheet; https://bit.ly/reddotauthors
Use the ISLN google group to coordinate bringing authors in person so that costs can be shared between schools
Download promotional posters from the website
Future Red Dots, please start filling in the spreadsheet. It can be used as a collection development tool. Ensure that you have read the book and are using personal notes not simply linking to Goodreads. - Need 2nd & 3rd readers for books already on the list as well as new suggestions – please make sure you have read the book before suggesting and fill in all the details required.
Please add resources and ideas to the current Red Dots docs:
https://bit.ly/reddot-early-2022-2023-hyperdoc
https://bit.ly/reddot-younger-2022-2023-hyperdoc
https://bit.ly/reddot-older-2022-2023-hyperdoc https://bit.ly/reddot-mature-2022-2023-hyperdoc
Red Dot timeline: · November onwards: Sharing of the CURRENT Red Dot promotion resources · November onwards: Discussion of FUTURE Red Dot shortlists · Current Red Dot online voting opens: Wednesday, March 1 · Voting closes: Friday, May 19 - NB: All schools can conduct voting in their own manner and just report their totals by Friday, May 19, to be included in the Singapore-wide results · Red Dot winners announced at the Readers Festival, Tuesday, May 23 · Next year’s shortlists announced to network at the Readers Festival |
Katie D | PD Update |
| Barb Reid & Katie D – talked about the highlights of the 21CL online conference which ran from 4 to 6 November.
Link to Katie’s presentation slides - Finding Belonging in Far-flung Places: Indian Children’s Literature & International Schools - bit.ly/21cl-indiakidlit
Will share further info on Google Groups. Discussion about Singapore Writers Festival – sessions people have been attending
Kate Brundage – upcoming JAWS workshop – Library Officers Job-Alike Day – Fri 6 Jan – SAS – 9am to 3pm – Details and registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBNxmC7uX74c-PzH0zuajo0bqLN_v3_fgV6EkELuIGONNRJw/viewform |
Kate Brundage | JAWS workshop |
| Upcoming JAWS workshop – Library Officers Job-Alike Day – Fri 6 Jan – SAS – 9am to 3pm – Details and registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBNxmC7uX74c-PzH0zuajo0bqLN_v3_fgV6EkELuIGONNRJw/viewform |
Kim Beeman | LKSW |
| Library Knowledge Sharing Workshop Pre-conference: 16 February 2023 Conference: 18 to 18 February Tangling Trust
Theme is connecting and reconnecting.
The keynote speaker will be Emily Drabinski who is the ALA president and Sonny Liew will also be speaking In-person Fri & Sat US$!00 Thursday Pre-conf US $60
Registration open – please pay invoice before 31 Dec – otherwise a second invoice will need to be issued due to nee financial regulations
Kim discussed the Baggu environmentally friendly conference bags which will be issues with the ISLN logo in white on red bag.
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Barb Reid | LKWS Pre-Conference School Library Tours |
| Thursday, Feb 18 2023 – Barb is currently working on the itinerary – 3 schools, one public library and one tertiary library - and a place to hold the post tour gathering cocktail party. |
Katie Day | AFCC |
| Calls for presentations for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content closed 16 October, but the conference will be held from 25 to 28 May 2023 |
Katie Day | Mr Midnight on Netflix |
| Katie talked about the Singapore author connect – James Lee to the Mr Midnight books and encouraged the membership to support this local author by watching it on Netflix. |
Jane Hayes | Social |
| Tiger Brewery tour on 5 November and the Raffles marina afterwards was a success.
Jane put forward a proposal for a couple more social events which she will follow up with an email and sign-up list to gauge interest.
Monday 5 December - Pre-Christmas get together at Summer Hill - French Restaurant on Orchard Rd – Monday night they offer free corkage - Menu Saturday 14 January · Lunch at Bollywood Vegetables at Poison Ivy Bistro and/or · A cooking class at Bollywood Vegetables – I'm not sure how much this will cost and how many people we would need to sign up for this but am working on this! · A visit to Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle - Singapore's oldest, surviving dragon kiln owned by the Tan family since 1965 and/or · A pottery workshop - $45 for hand building session only and an extra $15 to include the potter's wheel - We need at least 20 people to sign up and pay. |
Katie Day | 2 more meetings for this year |
| Tuesday, Feb 7 – Networking meeting – possibly to be hosted by Rhonda Smith at the International Community School
Monday, May 15 – AGM and networking meeting – host needed |
Jenna Emmerson | Follett Presentation |
| Follett’s generosity in sponsoring the Thanksgiving dinner was acknowledged and Jenna spoke about Destiny Discover Engage and send the slides to the Google Group before the end of the meeting. https://destinydiscoverhelp.fsc.follett.com/content/destiny%20discover/topics/Engage.htm |
Angie Erickson | Beanstack Presentation |
| Angie showed us how she and Kurt Wittig use Beanstack at UWCSEA Dover to promote the Red Dot Books
Katie Day informed the group that pricing for a single school is based on how many students using Beanstack eg TTS Junior School might be 1,000 students or US$1425/S$2000. But if 5 schools in ISLN sign up the cost per year would be US$800 no matter how many students they have. (US$%00 if 10 school sign up). Schools who are interested are invited to join the consortium.
This platform could be used a collaborative way to promote reading – in particular the Red Dot Book Award books |
Barb Reid | Follow up on the IBBY Conference – sessions by award winning Korean picture book creators |
| Heena Baek (the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner) and Suzy Lee (the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator winner). – see themselves as picture book creators – Barb showcased some of the beautiful books they have created as well as slides depicting their avant garde style
Baek’s IBBY talk can be accessed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUbMT5VVLkA and an article on her https://www.kbook-eng.or.kr/sub/trend.php?ptype=view&idx=616&page=$page&code=trend
Suzy’s whole talk can be accessed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq4EdYFH0ZQ |
Susan Grisby, Katie Day & Jane Hayes | AI tools to play with |
| Discussion surrounding Quillbot - AI paraphrase generator Elicit - AI research tool Dall.E.2 - AI art generator The implications for our role as teacher librarians |
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022
Time: 4:00pm for 4:30pm start / 6:00pm end latest
Venue: Library, Nexus International School, 1 Aljunied Walk, Singapore 387293
Unable to attend: Kurt Wittig - UWCSEA Dover
Joanna Yu - SOTA (School of the Arts)
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | Thursday, September 15 Normal Meeting | ||||||||
Katie Day | Intro | See slides Introducing the executive committee · Joiners or First-Timers: o Helen Eustaquio (One World Int’l Sch) o Gelo Alceso (One World Int’l Sch) o Monica Vega (SAS - Middle School) o Lily Teo (Hwa Chong) o Shirley Roser (XCL World Academy) o Anna Shaw (Nexus - Primary School) o Angie Erickson (UWC Dover - Secondary) o Kristi Olivares (CIS - Primary) o Shiv Walker (Dover Court) · Returning (at a different school): o Karen Melski (Nexus - Secondary) o Susan Grigsby (SAIS) Leavers: No leavers this month | |||||||||
Barb |
Finance update | Snapshot of spending and balances – fill in
Activity since last meeting · Fees (income) · Readers Festival (income & outgoing) · Entertainment (meeting & prizes) (outgoing) | |||||||||
Mairin | Red Dot | Discussing current red dot selections and explaining to new members that the red dot is curated by ISLN and the winners are chosen by students Authors and illustrators information for what they would charge for virtual or in person visits can be found on the red dot author info spreadsheet; https://bit.ly/reddotauthors Use the ISLN google group to coordinate bringing authors in person so that costs can be shared between schools Current red dots opening evening mature category book club – a chance to read two Asian fantasies, discuss ideas for sharing with students Download promotional posters from the website; add link Future Red Dots, please start filling in the spreadsheet. It can be used as a collection development tool. Ensure that you have read the book and are using personal notes not simply linking to Goodreads. If members would like to add an extra category to the Red Dots please fill in the survey sent by Mairin which will be sent in the next few weeks | |||||||||
Kate B | ALA Conference | Kate Brundage attended many of the talks at ALA and will create a document or lead a session to tell us what she learnt. She spoke to the author and illustrator of Watercress and came home with many new books for her library. | |||||||||
Jane | IBBY Global Lit Libraries | Barb, Katie, Jane and Angie attended and presented. They will show the presentations to ISLN over the coming weeks India kid lit month on Global Lit Libraries and will be presenting a virtual library conference. Singapore Writers Festival tickets are currently on special and available to buy. | |||||||||
Katie | Upcoming PD | Job alike at SAS Jan 6 2023 | |||||||||
Kim | Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop | Will be at Tanglin this year 17 and 18 February Registration is open. Call for papers is open Theme is connecting and reconnecting ALA president Emily Drabinski is the keynote speaker | |||||||||
Katie Day | Upcoming meetings | Next meeting 16 November at SAS Please volunteer to host the February meeting | |||||||||
Jane Hayes | Social | Tiger Brewery tour on 5 November and Raffles marina afterwards If you are not a big beer drinker they have other options and non alcoholics | |||||||||
Katie Day | Lucky Door Prizes | Katie Day 50 Sabine 20 Kate Brundage 50 | |||||||||
Raeco | Trevor Mccann and Chye would like to say thank you for inviting them today to present. Fully biodegradable book covering and is available to order. Schools could come together for a big order to save on shipping The catalogue can be sent to schools hardcopy or people can take home a usb. Raeco can design plans and walk through demos, it is a free service for customers. |
Agenda and Minutes for 2021-2022 ISLN Meetings
2022 AGM & Ordinary Meetings - April 27, 2022
Date: Monday, April 27, 2022
Time: 4:30pm for 5:00pm start
Venue: Senior Library, Tanglin Trust
Name | Area of Discussion | Action Required |
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Katie Day Katie Day Barb Reid Katie Day | Proxy votes collected Establish a quorum of financial members Acceptance of minutes from the 2021 AGM President’s Report Treasurer's Report (appointment of auditors) Executive Committee updates | No proxies submitted Current membership : currently 50 last year was 58 Members Present : 28 Members Present: List of schools and members available on the website: www.isln.org.sg Acceptance of AGM 2021 Minutes: Moved: Katie Seconded: Kim B Passed unanimously
Traffic to website – Over 127 members and 180 original posts
The Readers Cup festival had 21 Younger Teams from 9 schools, 24 Older Teams from 11 schools, 11 Mature Teams from 7 schools The Red Dot summer reading groups had conversations on WhatsApp, in small in-person groups, & collection of resources via hyperdocs (Google Slides) ISLN events and meetings from the previous year Overview of previous year Moved: Katie Seconded: Kim B. Passed unanimously
Financial year runs Jan-Dec Tax return submitted on time Income from membership, RF & BookDep (AWIN) $1428.71 last year NB YTD22 $443 Expenses mainly social, Quizmaster, website. 1 PD grant, Mentor Costs or Readers Cup in 2021 New Auditors required for 2 years – Raquel and Fiona have volunteered as auditors. Move to pass the Treasurer's report Moved: Katie Day Seconded: Kim B. Passed unanimously
Outgoing executive committee · President - Katie Day (Tanglin)
Liaison Officer - Kate Brundage (SAS) New executive committee
Liaison Officer - Kate Brundage (SAS) Voting order (Secret Ballot where more than 2 candidates) Moved: Katie Seconded: Kim B Passed unanimously |
Minutes for 2022 ISLN Ordinary Meeting
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Refreshments provided by Tanglin Trust School
Name | Area of Discussion | Action Required |
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Leavers and Joiners | Welcome to new members who have never been to a meeting in person before. Joiners: Maricela (ISS) Returning: Joanna (SOTA) Leavers: Elaine Fong (CIS), Kim Klein (SAIS), Karen Melski (GEMS), Poppy Russo (Dover Court), Claude Chassat (French school), Jamin Bookhamer (SAS), Mukta Begum (TTS) | |
Barb | Finance Update | Balance at last meeting: 20,193.96 DBS: 22,241.44 Paypal 1048.73 Total end of April (27/4/22): 23,290.17 Nearly all membership fees have come in. $183 from AWIN in March Paid Quizmaster Tax bill paid March $60.69 ISLN no longer needs a paypal account and will be closed when the money has been spent/transferred/withdrawn. |
Raquel and Mairin | Red Dot | Early years and younger years selection – not as many choices as last year and selection not as diverse Next year, more volunteers are required to read the books and leave comments Details about all the new Red Dot shortlists There is one more week for voting, https://www.reddotawards.com/ |
Lisa | Readers Cup | Deadline for payment is today Link to slides with upcoming dates Remy Lai and Andy Shepherd will do this years’ author talks. Participating schools will have access to a 45-minute pre-recorded session of the talk. Please send student questions for the authors as soon as possible. Email Kate Brundage with any questions. |
Elaine | AFCC | 25% discount offered to members Kate Brundage will be the liaison next year |
Katie | IBBY | Call for papers and presenters, https://www.ibbycongress2022.org/ |
Katie | Door prizes | Leela $20 and Katie $50 |
Denise Tan | Closetful of Books | Keynote speaker |
Date: Monday, February 7, 2022
Time: 4:30pm for 4:45pm start / 6:00pm end latest
Venue: Primary Library, UWCSEA East, Tampines St. 73,
Will attend meeting - | Adrienne Hill, Alison Cuthbert, Angela Erikson, Barbara Reid, Catherine Brady, Charlaine Reid, Clare Gilpin, Claude Chassat, Elaine Fong, Heather Day, Jane Hayes, Karine Lespinasse, Kate Brundage, Kate London, Katie Day, Kim Fyffe, Kim Klein, Kimberly Beeman, Lisa Miller, Mairin Raisdana, Mary Wheatley, Olivia Burford-Taylor, RAFFERTY DENIZ, Raquel Potaka, Reena Khanna, Stojana Popovska, Susan Lussenhop, Syeda Mukta Begum, Denise Tan |
Apologies | Janine Murphy, Maricela Navarrete, Karen Melski, LEELA ALIAS REMA, Poppy Russo, Fiona O’Shea |
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | Mon, February 7: Description | ||||||||
MEETING SLIDES: https://bit.ly/isln20212022meeting2 | |||||||||||
Katie | Leavers and Joiners | Updates Deniz Rafferty (AISS) – MENTOR? | |||||||||
Barb | Finance Update | Snapshot of spending and balances
Expenses included: Refreshments for this meeting, door prizes and mentor dinners Click on the members link to make sure your details are accurate, https://bit.ly/islnmembers22 Membership invoices will go out by the end of the month and need to be paid before the next AGM | |||||||||
Mairin | Red Dot | Barb records audio of her reading the books to promote the red dot selections and this is allowed provided you only share it within your own school community Olivia has recorded information about the books for students to listen to CIS is using a padlet shared with teachers and gives quick reviews for students Please don’t just leave your name on the red dot spreadsheet: if you have read the book, include comments Please try not to add new books as we now need to make decisions about the shortlist Main page of the spreadsheet has links to the whatsapp groups if you would like to join Hope to have the shortlist completed by the end of March and the titles will be announced at the readers festival at the end of May | |||||||||
Lisa | Readers Cup | Updates Readers Festival is being reimagined after having to go online last year. The purpose is to create an inclusive and diverse community of readers. SAS is working with older groups and promoting student agency by having them create book covers, virtual break out rooms, recipes for the characters. These could be shared between the schools The interschool virtual events – how to promote and share these events between schools? Is the proposed cost accessible to all schools? The executive committee will meet to discuss the pricing with ISLN member comments in mind. See Red Dot website - https://www.reddotawards.com/readers-cup-2022/ | |||||||||
Olivia | Social Events | Updates The location for the talk by Edmund Wee of Epigram Books has been changed and there is still one spot available, sign-up sheet Please check to see if you have already signed up for the sleuth event as the date has been changed due to covid, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kkt9hNl-wU3NaafRFVfKqj2wOstOfIxKE_Cuip63Wlo/edit?usp=sharing See slides | |||||||||
Katie | Upcoming PD | Call for papers & conferences to attend Elaine Fong is stepping down as the AFCC representative and Kate Brundage will be taking on the role Katie Day and Kate London will be presenting at the AFCC IBBY is calling for papers and is regional this year so would be great if ISLN members got involved See slides | |||||||||
AOB | The AGM will take place April 27th | ||||||||||
Olivia | Door prizes | Randomly choose member names out of a hat (people have to be present) -- and let them choose which Red Dot shortlist title they want to get as their prize | |||||||||
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | |||||||||||
Brendan Bolger | Bringing Books to Life | 20 mins | Trouble on Farmer Tigg’s Farm Brendan grew up in rural Ireland and was a sports fanatic. He became a PE teacher and went into primary teaching. The book was self-published and the proceeds will go to charity. Editing is key to the process of writing and publishing. Tigg’s Farm will be published with Denise Tan at Closetful of Books and will be available online and in bookstores from the end of March | ||||||||
Janine | Copyright Law Changes | Janine researched Singapore’s copyright law changes and did a presentation for staff and it is in the members only area, Singapore Copyright Act November 2021 IPOS has good fact sheets about what is allowed, https://www.ipos.gov.sg/about-ip/copyright - Factsheet Please be aware that not for profit schools have more allowances SAS has found that it is more effective if you contact publishing houses for permission rather than authors | |||||||||
Date: Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
Time: 4:30pm start / 5:30pm end
Venue: ONLINE
Will attend meeting - | Barb Reid (UWCSEA); Katie Day (Tanglin); Jane Hayes (Dulwich); Maricela Navarrete (ISS), Elaine Fong (CIS Lakeside), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA) Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich), Ali Cuthbert (SAS-ES), Mary Wheatley (SAS-ES), Kate Brundage (SAS-ES), Charlaine Reid (CIS TK), Lisa Miller (CIS LKS), Kelli Powling (SAS-MS), Syeda Mukta Begum (Tanglin), Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS-ES), Kim Klein (SAIS), Reena Khanna (Chatsworth); Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Raquel Potaka (AIS), Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA), Adrienne Hill (Dover Court) Kate London, Jessie Bevan (Dover Court), Michaela Dalgleish (AIS), Poppy Russo (Dover Court), Joanne Wilson (EtonHouse Broadrick), Angela Erickson (UWCSEA), Clare Gilpin (OFS MS) Karen Melski XCL (formerly GEMS), Stojana Popovska (CIS LKS) Iyabo Tinubu (AIS) |
Apologies |
Name | Area of Discussion | Time | TUES, OCTOBER 5: Description |
MEETING SLIDES: https://bit.ly/isln20212022meeting1 | |||
Katie | Leavers and Joiners | Updates Hello to any new members; goodbye to any members leaving New members: Heather Day (SAIS); Mary Wheatley (SAS) (returner); Reena Khanna (Chatsworth); Kumari Rajarm (The French School); Jonathan Guy (North London Collegiate); Maricela Navarette (ISS) Charlaine Reid (CIS TK) Changes: Susan Lussenhop (from Nexus to UWC Dover) Leavers: Monica Picard (Nexus) Lifetime members since the last meeting: Pam Males (UWC Dover); Jill Gammon (SAIS); Monica Picard (Nexus) | |
Katie | Mentors | Updates | |
Barb | Finance Update | Snapshot of spending and balances Balance at last meeting: 25644.98 Total at end of September: 20,007.62 5637.36 spent since the last meeting Expenses included: EOY function and prizes, website renewal, author for RC, Red Dot book sets, book vouchers RC & PD Grant to UWCSEA. DBS has a .50c discrepancy AWIN Payment date 15 Oct 21 $1006.01 Ensure you press book depository link every time as it doesn’t remember previous visits | |
Mairin | Red Dot | Updates Overview for new members, https://www.reddotawards.com/red-dot-awards-timeline/ If you added a book to the long list last year and you still feel strongly about it, please add it to the current long list Final shortlist will be completed by the end of March Please ensure you have read the whole book, include all the required information with your nomination and write your personal feedback | |
Lisa | Readers Cup | Updates Created a presentation of Readers Cup FAQ, https://www.reddotawards.com/readers-cup-2022/ Will add links to videos of previous years participants in the coming weeks | |
Olivia | Social Events | Updates Explore Bukit Brown event date tbd. It will probably be held on a Saturday in early November Singapore Ripper Murder Mysteries booked for 20th November, 10am Can book another group of five if people are interested Christmas gathering is dependent on covid rules Epigram Books event hopefully for January next year | |
Katie | Upcoming PD | Call for papers & conferences to attend: AFCC Call for Papers is 17 October IBBY Malaysia 21CLHK | |
AOB | Upcoming meeting dates. November … hopefully in person | ||
Katie | Door prizes | Randomly choose attendee names out of a hat -- and let them choose which Red Dot shortlist title they want to get as their prize -- will keep choosing names until all “free copies” of the 4 shortlists we bought are gone. Congratulations to the following people: Sarah Mounsey, Lampie Lisa Miller, Heartstopper Reena Khanna Mary Wheatley, Things go away Jane Hayes, Between Us Jesse Bevan, The Rabbit Listened Elaine Fong, The Enigma Game Kim Klein, No Ballet Shoes in Syria Mairin Raisdana, A Wish in the Dark Stojana Popovska, Sharing with Wolf Katie Day, Bat vs Poss Kate Brundage, Lizard’s Tale Reena Khanna, Fly on the Wall Adrienne Hill, Wish Tree Leftover books will be door prizes in the next meeting | |
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | |||
Kate Brundage (SAS) | Presentation at 4:45pm | 15 min | “Novel uses of Novelist” Survey results: only 5 people responded, not enough comments to make a generalisation Tech and ease of use issues may be factor for lack of use Empowers teachers and students when selecting books through the diverse features and book lists offered Vast and diverse PD opportunities for library support staff and librarians |
Professor Ian Gordon (NUS) | Talk at 5:00pm | 20 min. | "Studying Snoopy and Superheroes: a professor's perspective on libraries and research" https://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/hisilg/gordon.html
His online resume is appropriately styled as a comic, since that is his area of specialty. Growing up in Australia, he dropped out of secondary school and worked as a book fetcher in the Mitchell Library (part of the State Library of New South Wales), then did a Library Technician qualification and was involved with other libraries, before eventually going to university. So, he can speak about working in libraries from both sides of the fence -- supporting researchers and being a researcher.
Professor Gordon explored how research has changed throughout his career and the new opportunities afforded through technology
The availability of resources creates opportunity as well as new problems as it is difficult to shape the subject of your research with so much on offer Librarians in schools should teach students how to shape and research subjects both through available resources and what is useful
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Minutes for 2021-2022 ISLN ordinary Meeting
Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Time: 5:30pm (following the AGM)
Venue: Ascott Raffles Place; 2 Finlayson Green, Level 2; Singapore 049247
Present | (Members see AGM minutes) Leah McKay (AIS) joined during the meeting Guests: Scott Riley Singapore American School, Angie Erikson UWCSEA Dover, Karine Lespinasse GESS, Shirley Yeo Dulwich College Singapore , Kym Lee Dulwich College Singapore, Melissa Wittig UWCSEA Dover, Efe Umekkan Etonhouse Thomson |
Apologies |
Name | Area of Discussion | |
Scott Riley (SAS) | Author of ‘Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field’ (20 min) Kate Brundage introduced Scott - teacher / author (SAS) Scott shared his background, some of his story and then a series of photos depicting the characters and the story. Also shared his ideas on the process of Writing. Eg. 43 drafts to create his book. 4 year timeline Writing is a ‘Team Process’ Several Star Reviews | |
Move to accept minutes of the last ordinary meeting minutes: Nominated: Joyce Miller Seconded: Kurt Wittig | ||
Katie | Leavers and Joiners | Leavers: Jan Cox, Christina Simpson, Lara Ingham, Joyce Miller Joiners: Poppy Russo Lifetime members: Jan Cox, Christina Simpson |
Katie | Mentors | Assign mentors to any new members Poppy Russo (Dover Court) Mentor: Michaela Dalgleish (AIS) |
Barb | Finance Update | Snapshot of spending and balances No longer use a Paypal account to receive money. Money straight into DBS account Awin Book Depository people - please check link to order books Expenses : $500 support staff PD development, Refreshments for AGM, Librarian’s Knowledge Workshop Website - (Nov 2022. Penang) This year’s xax bill - $21.9 |
Mairin & Barb | Red Dot 2021 / 2022 shortlist Update | Many thanks to Kim Klein for Red Dot organization / participation. Barb discussed the Books that have been suggested for 2021 - 2022. Younger Reader category always needs more suggestions. Keep this in the back of your mind as you are reading / sharing with your students. Mairin spoke about likely Older & Mature Readers. Graphic novels and realistic fiction still being needed / considered. Please Note: These lists are not final. |
Mairin and Olivia | Social events Update | Olivia as new Vice President will take on events. Successful recent Quiz night - Thanks to Mairin and Katie Mystery Social Night Friday 21st May. More details to follow. Not too many details as that is the mystery. |
Lisa & Kate | Readers Cup Update | More teams than in the past. 21 Younger - 9 schools Author - Jaqueline Harvey 24 Older - 11 schools Author - Dusty Bowling 11 Mature - 7 schools Author - Wei Chin Live event on the 17th May @3:30pm Please honour time frames for the quiz. Further discussions required about other schools being able to tap into the authors. |
Elaine | AFCC Reminder | AFCC 2021- reading in the digital age 27th - 30th May Quite a few people from our network will be on panels and presenting. Topics besides Digital Age - Audio, Graphic Novels Costs: approx $120 |
Katie | ECIS Reminder | Online Conference - Libraries Week: Bringing the World Together 23rd - 29th May 4pm - 1am for us in Singapore. S$93 |
Olivia / Mairin | Door Prizes | Congratulations to the following people: Bag + Book - Jessie Bevan Books x 8: Caroline, Elaine, Claire, Kurt, Catherine, Shiela, Fiona, Karinne $25 voucher - Syeda (TTS) $50 voucher - Raquel (AIS) $75 voucher - Jan (AIS) $100 voucher - Leah (AIS) |
AOB | None Meeting ends 6pm - Social time and refreshments | |
AGM 2021: Minutes
Date: Tuesday, 4 May
Time: 5pm Venue: Ascott Raffles Place; 2 Finlayson Green, Level 2; Singapore 049247
Name | Area of Discussion | Action Required |
Kim | Proxy votes collected Establish a quorum of financial members Roll call and secretary records who is present. Acceptance of minutes from the 2020 AGM President’s Report Treasurer's Report (appointment of auditors) Call to Approve Amendments to the Constitution Call for Nominations | No proxies submitted Current membership : 58 Voting Members Present : 28 Members Present: Kate London Associate Member, Jan Cox Australian International School, Raquel Potaka Australian International School, Michaela Dalgliesh Australian International School, Stojana Popovska Canadian International School, Joyce Miller Chatsworth, Elaine Fong CIS LKS, Lisa Miller CIS LKS, Adrienne Hill Dover Court International School, Jessie Bevan Dover Court International School, Carolyn Doyle Dover Court International School, Jane Hayes Dulwich College Singapore, Poppy Russo Dulwich College Singapore, Fiona Shea Dulwich College Singapore, Shiela Avestruz International School Singapore, Monica Picard Nexus International School , Susan Lussenhop Nexus International School, Clare Gilpin Overseas Family School, Catherine Brady Overseas Family School, Olivia Burford-Taylor Overseas Family School , Kate Brundage Singapore American School, Kim Beeman Tanglin Trust School, Katie Day Tanglin Trust School, Syeda Mukta Begum Tanglin Trust School , Pam Males UWCSEA Dover, Kurt Wittig UWCSEA Dover, Barbara Reid UWCSEA East, Mairin Raisdana UWCSEA East Apologies: Philip Williams (UWCSEA), Claude Chassat (IFS), Lara Ingham (SAS), Janine Murphy(TTS), Ali Cuthbert (SAS), Karen Lynn Melski (GEMS), Jill Gammon (SAIS), Rachel Shellman (SAIS), Leela Rama (OWIS), Kim Klein (SAIS) Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich) Acceptance of AGM 2020 Minutes: Moved: Barb Reid Seconded: Joyce Miller Passed unanimously Financial year for AGM - Jan to Dec Expenses included - social events, Quizmaster Reader’s Cup, website, tax return - payment $266.56 Income from memberships and Book Depository orders. Thanks to Pam and Kim as auditors. New auditors are required for the next 2 years. Move to pass the Treasures report Moved: Jane Hayes Seconded: Claire Gilpin Passed unanimously Constitutional Amendments:
Moved: Barb Reid Seconded: Jane Hayes All those in favour: Everyone (28) Not in favour of amendments: 0 Passed unanimously Voting order (Secret Ballot where more than 2 candidates)
Moved: Jane Hayes Seconded: Catherine Brady Passed unanimously |
Minutes for 2020-2021 ISLN ordinary Meeting
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Refreshments provided by ISLN
Present | Sarah Mounsey, Janine Murphy, Leela Rema, Jane Hayes, Raquel Potaka, Barb Reid Philip Williams,, Olivia Burford-Taylor Elaine Fong, Chassat Claude, Shiela Marie Avestruz-Hill Kimberly Beeman, Jan Cox, Kurt Wittig Kim Klein, Kate Brundage, Katie Day , Jill Elizabeth Gammon, Karine Lespinasse Kate London, Pam Males, Karen Melski, Kimberly Beeman, Mairin Raisdana Susan Lussennhop, |
Apologies | Joyce Miller, Stojana Popovska , Philip Williams, Alison Cuthbert, Ekta Nansi |
Name | Area of Discussion | Action Required |
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Elaine | Professional Development | NLB’s Reading in the Age of Distraction: G4 UOI |
Kim B | Leavers and Joiners | Welcome to new members who have never been to a meeting in person before. Shiela Marie Avestruz-Hill (ISS) Chassat Claude (LFS) Caroline Doyle (Dover Court) |
Kim B | AGM | If you are interested in joining the Exec committee, or would like to nominate a friend or colleague, nomination forms will be coming out soon! Feel free to reach out to a member of the current Exec committee if you have any questions (Kim, Mairin, Barb, Jan, Katie, Janine, and Stojana) Date/time TBD (in-person, we hope!) |
Kim B | Book Depository affiliate link | Reminder about the link. Please use this when ordering |
Barb R | Treasurer’s Report | Current Balance $27695.50 Christmas Party and refreshments for 21CLHK Social Event have been debited. Invoices have gone out for next year to make sure that you have plenty of time to get them through your finance departments. Please check the size of school and the names of voting members |
Kim K. | Red Dot Update | We are no longer adding titles We’d appreciate readers for books on the list Please add comments to the spreadsheet Is someone willing to host an online meeting to discuss the Early / Younger Readers? UWCSEA East will host on 4 March |
Mairin R | Social Events | Thanks to everyone who participated in and hosted a group for the Holiday Social Quiz Night! It was very successful
Can we have some feedback on future events? Anyone up for a Mystery Social? More virtual quiz nights??? Please fill in this Google Form and let me know what you think asap |
Lisa M, Kate B, Sarah M. | Reader’s Cup Update | This is evolving, but this is our thinking so far Important Dates:
Registration fee: For virtual competition $5 per team member The LIVE ISLN Readers Cup virtual event will consist of:
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Elaine F | Professional Development | Josephine Chia at the NLB Sign up here for dinner before at 5pm, limited to 8 people at dinner. Registration link for Josephine Chia NLB talk 7pm (Fully Booked) Reading in the Age of Distraction Available on the NLB YT Channel on Feb 22 2021 |
Barb R, Kim K, Leela R | Professional Development | We attended some PD on Children’s Book Awards and were made aware of free virtual author visits https://booklinks.org.au/whats-on/bookings/ Thursday 18 February, 2021 from 5 pm - Singapore Time Katrina Nannestad will join StoryLinks editor Mia Macrossan in a Q & A about her new book We are Wolves. Thursday 11 March 2021 4:45 – 6:30 pm - Singapore Time Meet the new kids on the block at this Romancing the Stars Event Online. This is a chance to discover what new books our regional authors and illustrators have been creating for children. AJ Betts - https://wayrba.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/agm-announcement.jpg Andy Griffiths - More Excursions Barb requested that the Liaison Officers look into becoming members of some of these Australian Library Associations to enable us to attend their PD |
Upcoming PD | School Libraries: Powering Learning Download program details: http://bit.ly/slavmar12 One-day virtual conference online AUD$300 Friday March 12th School Library Association of Victoria, Australia | |
Kim B | Next Meeting | AGM to be advised - possibly April - location depending on the situation |
Monday, November 9, 2020
Time: 4:30pm Venue: Zoom
Will attend meeting - | Mairin Raisdana, Barb Reid, Phillip Williams (UWCSEA - East), Stojana Popovska (CIS), Pam Males (UWCSEA, Dover), Jane Hayes (Dulwich), Joyce Miller and Pamela Koo, (Chatsworth), Kim Klein, Jill Gammon (Stamford), Claude Chassat (IFS), Karine Lespinasse (GESS), Raquel Potaka (AIS), Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS), Jan Cox (AIS), Fiona Shea, Sarah Mounsey, Jane Hayes, (Dulwich), Kate Brundage (SAS), Lara Ingham (SAS), Lisa Miller (CIS LKS) Elaine Fong (CIS LKS), Katie Day (TTS), Janine Murphy (TTS) Karen Melski (GEMS) Kurt (UWC) Lisa Miller (CIS) Caroline Doyle, Adrienne Hill (Dover Court), Syeda Mukta Begum (TTS) |
Apologies | Michaela Dalgleish (AIS) Ali Cuthbert (SAS) |
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Mairin | Red Dot Book share | Breakout rooms for discussions / speed sells: Copies of nominated books Thanks for contributions and feedback in these breakout rooms and to those who shared their screens. We look forward to the next steps. |
Mairin | Leavers and Joiners | Baby Announcement: Welcome to Kim’s baby girl - Flora Calliope Pickford Visel - all doing well. Kim will be on leave until Feb 2021 Welcome to Pamela Koo - New Early Years librarian - Chatsworth International School Thank you to Fiona Shea for offering to be Pamela’s mentor / buddy. Welcome also to Adrienne Hill, Caroline Doyle, Jessice from Dover Court International School. There are no leavers that we are aware of. |
Mairin | Covid Changes- What’s going well? | General discussions and sharing about changes to our libraries during Covid, best practice / what’s working, what’s not. What will you maintain as a practice? Barb - limited library use at lunchtimes, 1 grade at a time, only 50 kids at a time. This has had positive benefits for all involved. Barb has been recording and reading a range of Picture Books for all levels. Recordings are forwarded on to teachers to share in class. Lib time shortened. Karen - Live from the Library. Working with her IT team to create a youtube channel. Students reading in different languages. Staff reading books across the school. Seeing others in the school as readers. Eg. HS music tch. With Senior students - First Chapter Fridays. Senior year teachers promote a fiction book to students. Teachers are reading the first chapter as a promotional strategy. Students excited about borrowing the book. Elaine - Principals doing read alouds. Noodle tools being used. Parent reads / recordings for Deepavali. Creating more Videos for staff / students. Eg. Tapping into holiday opportunities. Eg. DNovember (Dinosaur books) to read and record. Providing prerecorded readings for teachers to share in class. Jan - You touch, you take strategy for borrowing. Judging a book by it’s cover, consider the title. Give a Book a Go! Students borrowing books on display gives me an opportunity to push out a range of quality literature and it also provides me with an opportunity to recognize the needs of my students - popular series and titles. |
Barb | Treasurer's Report | Barb shared the Treasurer’s Report with the group - thanks Barb New link Book Depository - please use Book Depository no longer uses PayPal so I am waiting for some funds to be transferred into the DBS when they reach the transfer limit Some of our funds have been allocated to ISLN quizzes and social events since the circuit breaker. Please note $500 per annum is available to member schools for library support staff to put towards their library professional development. If they have some library related PD that they would like funded they should email librarynetwork@gmail.com and fill in the application form. For example 21st Century Learning has a library mini-conference coming up in January that may be of interest |
Lisa | Readers Cup | Reader’s Cup will take place via Kahoot in April. School can complete over a week. Closed after one week. Marj has been asked to compose the questions again. Please feel free to contact us and provide feedback re the questions. For example, we are looking at more inferential type questions. Flexible teams - max 6 students. 7 or less - 2 teams per school. Less than this, 1 team per school. 1 device only - needs to be supervised. Min 6 books older younger. Min 4 for mature. Already have some suggestions for books. Lisa to pass us the titles as soon as possible so that we may source them. Fees: $5 per student rather than a team cost. Book vouchers as prizes. 1st place - cup for the year + vouchers. A suggestion was made to include Virtual authors. Great idea - Lisa will look into this. |
Kim Klein | Red Dot Process update | Thank you to those who have participated in the process so far. Please transfer books you added to the presentation to GoogleSpreadsheet. If you forget, Kim or Katie will transfer to the document. Please see the Red Dot Website or last years Google Spreadsheet for past short lists. https://www.reddotawards.com We will be sending out more information about the meeting to talk about possible Red Dot Books. We will try to meet in December, February and March. We would like to finalize the list in March |
Elaine | AFCC Recap and Highlights | Thank you to Caroline, Singapore Book Council. Asian Festival of Children’s Content 2020 Caroline shared with us some background and highlights of this event. Link to the presentation: Sent in an email on the 9th of November by Mairin October 2020, 2 day Festival 3000 attendees. AFCC new learning experience. 10 panel sessions - International and local speakers on the panels. Examples of areas discussed: Children’s Books in Time of Crisis and Change. Building Resilience. Katie helped to moderate some of the lists. Feedback received...high satisfaction received. Next year May - a hybrid event Caroline also shared a Book launch - Folktale Anthology. Available Closet Full of Books or the link provided. It has also been launched on Facebook. Thank you to Caroline |
Mairin | Social Event: Petersens Wine Tasting nights | Thanks to Jane for being a fabulous host and organizing these nights. They were extremely successful. |
Mairin | End of Year social event | In lieu of Thanksgiving usually hosted by SAS, we will have a Christmas Event. A Google form will be sent out so you can give your preference of dates. We will ask for hosts to invite 5 members to gather at your place. The first half of the night is a social catch up, and then there will be a team quiz hosted by Lara and Mairin. Those who wish to host, offering their own place for others to join them, will be provided with a contribution from ISLN to go towards food and drink. Potluck type of event. We look forward to hearing more about this event. Voting members who are interested in attending and possibly hosting the upcoming December social evening can provide information in this Google Form. We will need your responses by end of day on Friday, Nov. 13 in order to start the planning process. We are hoping to make it a great night for everyone involved! Please check follow up email sent out on the 12th of November |
AOB | Barb | StoryBox Library are offering a free 30 day trial to all schools, with no obligations. UWCSEA and AIS are currently using it. The details are here |
Barb | Adults recommending children’s books - perhaps we can organize a group within the network. Take a look at Barb’s Good Reads list. | |
Jane | Old Changi Hospital Night Walk Tour 21st of November Thanks to Fiona for discovering this local treasure. Jane contacted Expat Living and they are happy to offer us a tour as a Network. We are very fortunate to have this offer - there is quite an extensive waitlist for the general public. Here is the link: click here to officially register and pay. $28. Jane to check numbers and get back to us. We are all very appreciative of Jane’s input and organization of many of our social events. See Jane’s email sent out on the 12th of November for an update. | |
Karen to send a Google doc about possible changes we are all making in our libraries due to Covid restrictions. Eg. Quarantining. Phase 3 Great opportunity for us to share considering there isn’t any official library advice for us to follow. Barb followed up with the National Library - see email sent on the 12th of November | ||
Sarah | A great friend of mine has created this book which shines a beautiful light on domestic helpers here in Singapore. The book is $65 and all proceeds go to H.O.M.E and I think most of our libraries should own a copy. To request a quote Hayley can be emailed at hayley@hayleydurack.com | |
Next Meeting | Date: 17 Feb 2021 at UWCSEA East - 5pm start | |
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Karen Melski | Library Tour | Virtual tour of GEMS library Thanks Karen for sharing your fabulous library with us. New units supplied by Steelcase. Satellite library. Karen will email details to the group. Also, details of contact for Steelcase. Feedback and question time. |
Date: Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Time: 4:30pm start (room will be open from 4pm for socialising)
Venue: Zoom
Attendees | Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Barb Reid (UWCSEA East), Kay Oddone (ex-AIS), Philip Williams (UWCSEA East),Elaine Fong (CIS Lakeside) Sarah Mounsey, Jane Hayes, Fiona Shea (Dulwich), Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover) Jan Cox (AIS) Lara Ingham (SAS), Lisa Miller (CIS Lakeside), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover); Janine Murphy (Tanglin Juniors), Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS - ES) ; Syeda Mukta Begum (Tanglin), Joyce Miller (Chatsworth), Michaela Dalgleish (AIS), Monica Picard (NISS), Kate Brundage (SAS), Alison Cuthbert (SAS), Stojana Popovska (CIS TK); Jill Gammon (SAIS), Kim Klein (SAIS), Marin Raisdana (UWCSEA), Leela Rama (OWIS),Susan Lussenhop (Nexus). |
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Janine Murphy (TTS) | Accessing Literary Heritage Texts | |
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Kim Beeman (TTS) | Leavers and joiners | Hello to any new members; goodbye to any members leaving We will miss you: Marjan Slaats (CIS) Kay Oddone (AIS) Welcome: Philip Williams (UWCSEA East), Katie Day (TTS) Congratulations: Kim Beeman (TTS), President, will be on maternity leave in November; Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA East), Vice President will cover her ISLN role during this time. |
Kim B | Secretary | Nomination and passed - Jan Cox (AIS) confirmed as new Secretary of ISLN. Ekta Nansi (TTS) thanked for her work as ISLN webmaster (joint role). Stojana Popovska (CIS) will continue as the sole ISLN webmaster. |
Barb (UWCSEA East) | Finance update | Snapshot of spending and balances |
Kim K (SIAS) | Red Dots | Please complete this form if you are interested in participating in the Red Dot Social Meetings throughout the school year. Update on longlist meetings and procedures for this year |
Kim B | Book Depository | New affiliate link here: https://tidd.ly/3kRNm4J |
Kim B | AFCC | AFCC on 3 to 4 October 2020 will be fully digital. AFCC would like to offer ISLN members a partner discount of 10% for AFCC Digital Passes (across all categories). The discount promo code is AFCC2020ISLN Thank you to Elaine (CIS) for organising this. |
Mairin | Social events | Upcoming socials Thank you to Mairin (UWCSEA) and Katie (TTS) for organising our first ISLN online quiz night. It was great fun with good prizes. Next Virtual ISLN Quiz night is 22nd October - Mairin will send the details. This will be organised by Mairin and Janine. |
Jane (Dulwich) | Wine Tasting | Quiz at Emerald Hill Friday 2 October now FULL Thank you Jane for organising and to ISLN for funding. |
Sarah (Dulwich) | Virtual author visits | Details of past and upcoming virtual author visits |
AOB | Upcoming meeting dates and plans for 2020/2021 | |
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Monica (Nexus) Susan (Nexus) | Many thanks to Monica and Susan for showing us their wonderful new libraries. | |
- Agenda and Minutes for 2019-2020 ISLN Meetings
Date: Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Time: 5.05pm start
Venue: Zoom
Attendees | Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Ekta Nansi (Tanglin), Lara Ingham (SAS) Jane Hayes , Fiona Shea and Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich) Kay Oddone (AIS) Raquel Potaka (AIS) Leela Rama (OWIS), Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover), Ali Cuthbert (SAS), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover), Jan Cox (AIS), Marjan Slaats (CIS LKS), Elaine Fong (CIS LKS), Sue Toms (UWCSEA East) Barb Reid (UWCSEA), Philip Williams (UWCSEA starting Aug), Monica Picard (NISS), Stojana Popovska (CIS), Karine Lesspinasse (GESS) Kim Klein (SAIS), Kate Brundage (SAS) Lisa Miller (CIS), Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA East), Janine Murphy (Tanglin), Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS), Karen Melski (GEMS), Susan Lussenhop (NIS), Yogeswari Ganesan (HCI). |
Apologies | Tamara Serong (Chatsworth Orchard), Michaela Dalgleish (AIS) |
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Kim B | Leavers and Joiners | Hello to our new members; goodbye and goodbye to any members leaving our ISLN network Leavers: Sue Toms (UWCSEA East) Joiners: Philip Williams (UWCSEA East) - August (Elaine to mentor) Michaela Dalgleish (AIS) - Nov (Olivia to mentor) Katie Day (TTS) - August (Katie is on the executive committee so will ask any mentoring questions she has to the committee) |
Barb | Finance Update | Financial report since the last meeting A thank you from Barb for the prompt payment of ISLN membership fees this year. |
Lisa | Readers Cup | Kahoot access. Please let Sarah know by end of tomorrow if you would like her to share the Kahoots with you. Also please let her know which age categories you require. She has already sent one batch out to those who have requested them. It is much more time effective to do multiple names at once, rather than one by one. Olivia’s will be sent in the next one. Once Sarah has shared them please do not make them public. A big thank you to Kate Brundage has sent a padlet for book trailers and covers for 2020. The children should just comment on this and celebrate. |
Barb | Red Dot 2019 / 2020 | Announcement of the winners! A big thank you to Kim Klein who has made all this possible with her hard work. |
Kim B | Red Dot shortlists 2020 / 2021 | |
Kim B | Literacy Lab workshop | New dates: possibly spring 2021 |
Kim B | AFCC | AFCC will be held 3 - 4 October 2020 will be fully digital. They are looking for moderators and speakers if you would like to be involved. |
Kim B | Library Officer JAW | This is postponed so we are looking at digital alternatives Please get in touch with Kim Beeman if you are willing to support with this. |
Barb | LKSW | Phnom Penh LKSW 2020 has been postponed; we are looking at digital alternatives possibly in Singapore. The LKSW 2021 is scheduled for Phnom Penh. |
AOB | Upcoming meeting dates. This will be announced later in the year. End of year party. Marin will schedule a party, possibly at the beginning of the next year. Janine Murphy thanked Kim Beeman for all her work as President of ISLN this year; organising business and events, promoting PD and supporting members. | |
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Kay | How TLs can support their school community in times of change and beyond | Link to presentation slides here |
ROSES AGM Meeting
Tuesday 05 May 2020 4.40-5.02
Venue: Zoom
Thanks to: Kim Beeman (president) for chairing the meeting and Barb Reid for setting up the zoom meeting.
Attendees: Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Ekta Nansi (Tanglin), Lara Ingham (SAS) Jane Hayes , Fiona Shea and Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich) Kay Oddone (AIS) Raquel Potaka (AIS) Leela Rama (OWIS), Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover), Ali Cuthbert (SAS), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover), Jan Cox (AIS), Marjan Slaats (CIS LKS), Elaine Fong (CIS LKS), Sue Toms (UWCSEA East) Barb Reid (UWCSEA), Philip Williams (UWCSEA starting Aug), Monica Picard (NISS), Stojana Popovska (CIS), Karine Lesspinasse (GESS) Kim Klein (SAIS), Kate Brundage (SAS) Lisa Miller (CIS), Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA East), Janine Murphy (Tanglin), Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS), Karen Melski (GEMS), Susan Lussenhop (NIS), Katie Day (Tanglin starting Aug), Yogeswari Ganesan (HCI), Clare Gilpin (OFS)
Apologies: Tamara Serong (Chatsworth Orchard), Michaela Dalgleish (AIS), Shylaja Raman (NPS).
Minutes of the Meeting:
No proxy votes were submitted.A quorum of financial members was established. As of 4 May there are 45 voting members; 28 financial members were present at the AGM. 11 members are required for a quorum. We have achieved that number today, therefore a quorum was met.
Kim Beeman explained the rules for conducting this AGM meeting. It will be conducted according to the guidelines that ROSES (Registry of Societies Singapore) have sent out to hold meetings during the current circuit breaker period. We will use the chat function to accept the proposed motions; second the motions, and register any opposition. Please note, an opposition vote of 22 (50%) of members will result in a full vote. Please state everything you would like to be recorded in the minutes or voted on. The opportunity is on the chat and vote function of zoom. It was verified that everyone knows how to use this feature.
A roll call and secretary records indicated who was present (see above). This was conducted by Janine Murphy
Acceptance of minutes from 2018/2019 AGM (published on ISLN website) are true and correct. Moved by Kim Beeman, accepted by Janine Murphy, seconded by Jane Hayes. Kim Beeman asked if there are any opposition votes. None are recorded, moves to accept the motion.
Minutes from Ordinary meeting 20 Feb 2020 (published on ISLN website) are true and correct. Moved by Kim Beeman, accepted by Jan Cox, seconded by Kurt Wittig. Kim Beeman asked if there are any opposition votes. None are recorded, moves to accept the motion.
The President's Report was given by Kim Beeman. A summary and thank you to ISLN members for this year.
Treasurer’s Report (01/01 2019- 31/01/2019) was given by Barb Reid. Call for auditors’ agreement. Kim Klein and Pam Males agree the accounts for the financial year.
Barb Reid: We have moved to a Paypal Business account. Kim Klein and Pam Males were asked if they would be auditors again for the next financial year. They agreed. If anyone has any questions about the finances, please feel free to ask Barb Reid.
Officers for Executive Committee 2020/21:
Nominations were requested on 13 April 2020 via a google doc sent out by Kim Beeman and the submission deadline was 20 April 2020.
Voting order (Secret Ballot where more than 2 candidates are nominated)
1 President - Kim Beeman (unopposed)
2 Vice President - Mairin Raisdana (unopposed)
3 Secretary - Kay Oddone (unopposed)
4 Treasurer - Barb Reid (unopposed)
5 Liaison Officer - Katie Day / Janine Murphy (share role - unopposed)
6 Webmaster - Stojana Popovska / Ekta Nansi (share role - unopposed)
Kim Beeman called for the nominations to be accepted. Kurt Wittig has moved to accept the nominations. Kim Klein has moved to second the nominations. Kim Beeman asked if there are any oppositions. None are made so the officers for the Executive Committe 2020/21 are accepted.
Meeting closed with Kim’s thanks.
Date: Thursday, 20 February, 2020
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm (4pm for a 4:30pm start)
Venue: The Wine Company (14D Dempsey Rd, Singapore 249688)
Attendees | Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Barb Reid (UWCSEA East), Jane Hayes (Duwich), Fiona Shea (Dulwich), Kay Oddone (AIS), Michael Kelly (Tanglin), Elaine Fong (Canadian International School), Lisa Miller (CIS), Jan Cox (AIS), Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich), Karine Lespinasse (GESS), Joyce Miller (Chatsworth BT), Susan Lussenhop (NISS), Raquel Potaka (AIS), Efe Umekkan (EtonHouse Thomson),, Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA East), Marjan Slaats (CIS) Lees Rema, Lara Ingham (SAS) |
Apologies | Stojana Popovska (might be able to make it), Janine Murphy (Tanglin), Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS),Christina Simpson (Broadrick), Kim Klein (SAIS), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA), Pam Males (UWCSEA), Kate Brundage (SAS), Sue Toms (UWCSEA East), Janice Chin (NISS), Monica Picard (NISS), Ali Cuthbert (SAS), Ekta Nansi (Tanglin), Tamara Serong (Chatsworth Orchard) |
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Kim B | Initial Group Discussion: Providing and Promoting Library Resources in Times of Crisis | Please bring your thoughts and ideas about how to promote library resources (especially digital / online resources) during difficult times (and with the prospect of possible school closures). How can we best prepare and serve our communities at times like this? *Add to resources Minutes from last meeting accepted by Barb and Mairin |
Kim B | Leavers and Joiners | Hello to any new members; goodbye to any members leaving
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Barb | Finance Update | Snapshot of spending and balances
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Lisa | Readers Cup | Information about the 2020 Readers Cup, including discussion of coronavirus contingency plans
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Barb | Red Dot | Voting is now open at https://www.reddotawards.com/home/voting/
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Kim B | Red Dot shortlists 2020 / 2021 | Final meeting is 11 March at the American Club
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Kim B | Literacy Lab workshop | New Dates: October or November 2020
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Elaine | AFCC | AFCC has been postponed due to the virus. Tentative date will be in Oct 2020. Looking for moderators from ISLN. Submissions on diversity and special needs wanted. 6th Bai Meigui Translation Competition. Singapore Book Council is co-organising a Chinese to English picture book translation competition with the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing. They wish to invite students between 11 to 18 years old in Singapore to participate. Deadline is 8.00pm (SGT) on Sunday 15th March 2020. Details and online form is here.
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Barb | BorrowBox Consortium - Member schools can join
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AOB | Upcoming meeting dates.
Rethinking Learning
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Marjan: 2-Minute Book Talks done with G4s and G6s
Marjan will send out the poster with all of the details! Fiona-
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Minutes for 2019-2020 ISLN Meetings
Date: 25 November, 2019
Time: 4:00-6:30pm
Venue: Singapore American School
Many thanks to SAS for hosting and providing a Thanksgiving buffet
Supported with contributions from Follett and ISLN
Attendees | Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Barb Reid (UWCSEA East), Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA East), Janine Murphy (Tanglin), Graham Grant (ISS), Linda Twitchett (AIS), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover), Jane Hayes, Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich), Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover), Elaine Fong (CIS Lakeside), Raquel Potaka (AIS), Fiona Shea (Dulwich), Sue Toms (UWCSEA East), Marjan Slaats (CIS), Kim Klein (SAIS), Lisa Miller (CIS)A-J Fairey (AIS), Tamara Serong (Chatsworth Orchard) Joyce Miller (Chatsworth BT), Karine Lespinasse (GESS), Jenna Emerson (Follett), Syeda Mukta Begum (Tanglin), David Veinot (GESS), Stojana Popovska (CIS TK), Linda Saad (AIS), Rachel Shellman (SAIS), Monica Picard (NISS), Janice Chin (NISS), Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS), Karl Dzelzkalns (Jenna’s colleague at Follett), Michael Kelly (TTS) |
Apologies | Ekta Nansi (Tanglin), Christina Simpson (EtonHouse Broadrick) |
Kim B | Red Dot Books | Categories: Early years (age 3-7) Younger readers (age 7-10) Older readers (age 10-14) Mature readers (age 14-adult) Criteria: Mix of genres Balance of boy/girl main characters Balance of nationalities Published (in English) within the last 4 years Preferably only #1 if in a series No repeat of an author from previous 3 years Preferably books that encourage Text-Text, Text-Self, and/or Text-World connections for students Next Red Dot Meetings at American Club: Tuesday, December 10 Thursday, February 13 Wednesday, March 11 |
Kim B | Leavers and Joiners | Goodbye to leavers: Linda Twitchett AIS (lifetime member & former ISLN president) Graham Grant ISS (lifetime member) Linda Saad AIS A-J Fairey AIS |
Jenna | Follett Updates | Titlewave update. A new classroom page launched specifically for International Schools. Free shipping for orders placed in first two weeks of December. More information here |
Barb | Finance Update | Snapshot of spending and balances: Zero tax bill this year Due 27 April 2020 USD 2250 for Readers Cup Quizmaster |
Lisa | 2020 Readers Cup | April 28th 2020 @ Singapore American School Renewed focus on collaborative activities and student agency (creating practice questions, sharing resources, creating book trailer). New additions to the program to include author visit/workshop, updated quiz format (return to Socrative and tie-breakers TBC). Deadline for team commitment: January TBC Please let any member of the Readers Cup Committee - Lisa, Sarah, Jane, Kate, Joyce, Stojana, Elaine, Olivia, know if you have any questions or how to set up the Readers Cup in your schools. |
Barb | Mr Schu | Cost negotiations are underway with the aim of having an ISLN luncheon on 25th April (TBC) |
Kim B | Literacy Lab workshop | 29 February and 1 March 2020: Two-day workshop (tentatively at Tanglin, unless someone else wants to host!) Cost to ISLN: $3800 SGD Proposed cost to ISLN members: $25 (to cover food and drinks) Proposed costs for ISLN member schools: $100/staff; FREE/students* Proposed costs for non-ISLN schools: $150/staff; FREE/students* Can be repeated in 2020/2021 if the course is oversubscribed * Max of two students per school; must attend with a librarian or other member of staff |
Kim B | JAW Lite | Thank you to the hosting schools: CIS, GESS, and UWCSEA Dover Save the date: Dulwich to host Friday 16 October 2020 This will be the fifth Library Officer JAW |
Sarah | AFCC | Updates about committees, author visits, and AFCC 2020 AFCC will be held in May going forwards, starting in May 2020 Reminder of AFCC call for papers https://afcc.com.sg/ AFCC is interested in partnerships with ISLN schools and visiting authors. There is a possibility of authors coming for the Readers Cup. Thank you to Sarah for representing ISLN for the Teachers and Parents strand of AFCC. Please let Sarah know if you would like to volunteer to take her place on the AFCC planning committee. Kim Beeman currently represents ISLN for Writers and Illustrators strand of AFCC |
AOB Barb Elaine | Bolinda Picture books donations Upcoming meeting dates: Social this Thursday | Bolinda ebook and audio book consortium To sign up and for information - see more Picture book re-homing service with CPS To support this initiative - see more ISLN Meetings: Thursday 20 February at GEMS Tuesday 05 May at Nexus (AGM) Red Dot Meetings: American Club Tuesday 10 December Thursday 13 February Wednesday 11 March Brewerkz Thanksgiving Buffet - Thurs Nov 28 (Choose “Indoor” and 5-8pm seating). Elaine is booking a table |
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Kate Brundage | SAS renovation and tour | |
ISLN Ordinary Meeting September 17, 2019 4:30-6:30 pm
Canadian International School (Lakeside Campus), 7 Jurong West Street 41, Singapore 649414
**Thank you to the Library Team at Canadian International School for hosting and this meeting and for arranging refreshments**
Next meeting: 25th November 2019 Singapore American School
Attendees | Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Stojana Popovska (CIS), Barb Reid (UWCSEA East), Ekta Nansi (Tanglin), Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA East), Linda Twitchett (AIS), Jane Hayes, Sarah Mounsey, Siti Khatijah (Dulwich), Marjan Slaats (CIS); Raquel Potaka (AIS), Joyce Miller (Chatsworth BT), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA),David Veinot,(GESS),Sue Toms (UWCSEA) Helen Fraser (Sue’s sister), Fiona Shea (Dulwich), Elaine Fong (CIS), Clare Gilpin (OFS), Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS), Leila Rema (GESS), Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover), Lynda Dermody (GESS), Monica Picard (NEXUS), Susan Lussenhop (NEXUS), Janice Chin (NEXUS), Syeda Mukta Begum (Tanglin) A-J Fairey (AIS), Karine Lespinasse (GESS), Kim Klein (SAIS) Janine Murphy (Tanglin) Lara Ingham (SAS) Lisa Miller (CIS) Louise Phillips (James Cook University) Rachel Shellman (SAIS) Kate Brundage (SAS) |
Apologies | Ali Cuthbert (SAS), Tamara Serong (Chatsworth Orchard), Christina Simpson (Etonhouse Broadrick), Jill Gammon (SAIS) Linda Saad (AIS) |
Attending Dinner? RSVP here | Kim Beeman, Barb Reid, Linda Twitchett, Jane Hayes, Mairin Raisdana, Joyce Miller, Fiona Shea, Elaine Fong, Janine Murphy, Karine Lespinasse Lisa Miller. |
Name | Area of Discussion | Action Required |
Kim B | Initial Group Activity: Back-to- school outreach and displays | See slides here: Best practice - Return to School Group share ideas: Jeopardy game for children who know a lot about the library already Photographs to welcome children back from last year (take from last year’s social media). Include short films. Reintroducing Executive committee: Kim Beeman - President Mairin Raisdana - Vice President Webmaster - Stojana Popovska/Ekta Nansi Barb Reid - Treasurer Janine Murphy - Secretary Rachel Shellman - Liaison Touch base with buddies: Olivia Burford- Taylor(OFS) Janine Murphy (Tanglin) Clare Gilpin (OFS) Lisa Miller (CIS-LKS) Fiona Shea (Dulwich) Kate Brundage (SAS) Lara Ingham (SAS) Kim Beeman (Tanglin) David Veinot (GESS) Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover) Jamin Bookhamer (SAS) Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover) Rachel Shellman (Stamford) A-J Fairey (AIS) Ali Eatough (Marlborough) Jane Hayes (Dulwich) Introducing new members to our community: Siti Khatijah (Dulwich) Syeda Mukta Begum (Tanglin) Lynda Dermody (GESS) Karine Lespinasse (GESS) And reintroducing… Elaine Fong has moved at CIS and has been in Singapore Libraries for 21 years (NLB and Int’l School Libraries). |
Barb | Finance Update | Snapshot of spending and balances: 28527.83 SGD of which 6249.68 is from book depository income. |
Kim B | Literacy Lab workshop update | PD dates for Spring 2020 (TBC): Joe Schaaf from International School of Tianjin
John Schu (“Mr Schu”)
Please update ISLN calendar with term dates so PD can be planned effectively. |
Lisa | Readers Cup | Highlights from the 2019 Readers Cup: see video Do join up for 2020; be a committee member; or be host school via this form |
Kim K | Red Dot Committees | Dates and procedures for 2019/2020: We have already chosen books for the 19/20 school year. Visit Red Dot site for more information. Red Dot Posters are here. Please check you have ordered the correct version of the William Wenton book: this is the edition of William Wenton. Begin brainstorming books for 20/21 school year. Book recommendation kick-off at the next ISLN meeting followed by socials at the American Club:
Closer to the date, Kim Klein, will send around a Doodle to RSVP for the meetings. We are looking for books published in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.Bring your nominated books to the next ISLN meeting at SAS - everyone bring at least one please. |
Kim | JAW | Updates about the 2019/2020 Library Officer JAW: No workshop this year; possibility of a library tour instead Starting at Tanglin, visiting two other schools (proposed) Light breakfast and lunch provided (proposed) Week of 14 to 18 October (proposed) Dulwich to host in October 2020 Other regional opportunities: Workshop in KL in December (cancelled) |
Stojana | InTLlead Moodle platform | Overview of a new international school librarian platform: inTLchat |
Ekta and Stojana | ISLN website 101 | An overview of the resources and information available on the ISLN website *You will see the Red Dot books there *Click on link at bottom to add your school’s term dates to the calendar *Join the google group and allow notifications to receive messages. |
AOB | Red Dot outreach over Twitter (highlights) Notices from Linda Twitchett, AIS: Tristan Bancks is available for a school visit Friday December 6. Speaker fee is $1000 for 4 sessions https://www.tristanbancks.com/ Contact: linda_twitchett@ais.com.sg AIS TeachMeet, Tuesday 24th September, 5.30. Central Library. | |
PD Presentations | ||
Elaine | Show Your Work | |
Kurt | Pimp Your Library | |
Notes for diaries: | ||
Next meeting | 25th November 2019 | Singapore American School - remember to bring nominated Red Dot book even if you are not participating. |
Next PD presentations | 5-10 minutes | Everyone welcome to present PD - we want lots of variety Email: kimberly.beeman@tts.edu.sg or librarynetwork@gmail.com |
ROSES AGM Meeting
Monday 29th April, 4.45 - 5.15 pm
Venue: Senior Library, Tanglin Trust School
Thanks to Tanglin for providing refreshments.
Barb Reid (UWCSEA East), Kim Beeman (Tanglin) Julie Muir ( SAIS), Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA-E) Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover) Marjan Slaats Mel Cooper Lisa Miller (CIS-LKS) Leela Rema(GESS) Yap Sheue Mui (Tanglin) Nurul Abubakar (Tanglin) | Graham Grant (ISS) Ally Thompson (ISS) Kim Klein (SAIS) Sue Toms (UWCSEA East) Ekta Nansi (Tanglin) A-J Fairey (AIS) Hannah O’Donnell Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich) Monica Picard (Nexus) Janice Chin (Nexus) Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover) | Uma Manikantan(Tanglin) Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS) Clare Gilpin (OFS) Michael Kelly (Tanglin) Ali Cuthbert Kate Brundage Mary Wheatley (SAS) Ali Eatough (Marlborough) Jen Eu (AIS) Janine Murphy (Tanglin) Jane Hayes (Dulwich) |
42 members - 27 present
Apologies: Johanna Krijnsen [GESS], Linda Twitchett (AISS), Christina Simpson (Broadrick), Stojana Popovska (CIS-TK), Jill Gammon (SAIS)
The proxy votes were collected prior to the meeting start. A quorum of financial members was established. Of the 42 financial members, 27 members were present; therefore a quorum was met.
A roll call and secretary records indicate who is present. Conducted by Janine Murphy
Acceptance of minutes from 2018 AGM. Moved by Melissa Cooper, seconded by Kim Beeman: Minutes from last meeting
Address from ISLN President Melissa Cooper
2019 Executive Report
A Summary of the Year and Look Ahead
Thank you all for your participation, attendance and support this academic year. It was a productive year for the network.
In order to raise our social media profile and support each other through various channels, Kim and Kurt worked together to bring us a new Twitter handle @ISLNRedDot. This has been well received and it’s encouraging to see authors responding to our tweets. Our website has seen lots of good traffic. Many thanks to Kim and her husband Dan for its continued improvement: both on the ISLN and Red Dot sections. and Kim’s idea for Book Depository has definitely increased our coffers which will lead to more PD for us librarians in the coming year. Kurt and Kim’s innovative ideas have brought visibility to the ISLN through social media channels
Behind the scenes, Jo and Barb have worked together to sort out the challenges with banking and a The Registry of Societies in Singapore. Now, we have an ATM card to work with and have streamlined some processes. An abridged version of the report will be shared and we send our condolences to Jo who is currently in Europe due to family bereavement.
Barb set up an initiative of a ‘Lifetime Membership’ to honour our long standing members, this was well received and a number of former friends will benefit from this membership.
Many thanks to Julie for organizing some wonderful events for us this year. Her steady dedication to the network and during discussions is always appreciated. Janine and Barb shared the secretary role this year, and this model was a success, they worked together to ensure that ideas were tracked and we stayed on top of things.
For our members a new consortium will begin, Bolinda. Thanks to Barb and Linda for bringing it to the table and to the founding schools: Australian International School, Dulwich College, Stamford American School and United World College SEA for providing this opportunity for us. It will be exciting to see how this initiative will grow our libraries.
Our Red Dot books have been selected for next year. A big thank you to Kim Klein for leading this project. We had many enjoyable meetings at the American Club talking about the merits of many different books. We hope more librarians will join us in these discussions about one of our favourite things, books.
The Readers Cup Festival grew again this year; 9 schools attended with a total of 27 teams participating at 3 different levels. We truly appreciated the ISLN’s support in having a Quiz Master this year, it took away a level of stress and was an effective way to ensure there was fairness in the process. There was a definitely level of excitement among the kids. A big thank you to Lisa and the Readers Cup Committee for their hard work to produce a fantastic event for our students. It was a pleasure to see how people pitched in to help out in the moment; not only did the kids have the opportunity to work together but librarians had the opportunity to work together. We hope to see more schools join us next year!
We saw some excellent PD this year: Janine and diversity, Stojana and joining in TLlead, Ekta and her research project to name a few. The meeting around library design was a great collaborative project that stimulated some great discussion and many of left that meeting with a list of ideas.
Our Annual General Meeting is the time for change, and with the end of the academic year we have a number of members moving on. From the executive committee; Julie, Jo and myself will be leaving Singapore. Kurt has decided to step down from his role as Liaison Officer. I’d like to take this time to thank them for bringing their ideas and energy to the table. Best of luck to us all in our future endeavors.
As a goal for net year; the ISLN will continue to focus on your professional learning. Many ideas are on the table, including an ISLN knowledge sharing workshop - a day of professional learning for our librarians. I’m sure the next executive team will bring you another valuable year of learning!
Thank you for a fantastic year,
Melissa Cooper
CIS Primary Teacher Librarian
ISLN Statement of Accounts April 2018 - Mar 2019
Julie Muir on behalf of Johanna Krijnsen
The full financial statement for the 2018 year is here
DATE | TRANSACTIONS | IN | OUT | BALANCE |
Opening balance April 1, 2018 | $ 26,763.01 | |||
Closing balance March 31, 2019 | $ 21,248.84 |
Appointment of two new auditors
Seconded by Melissa Cooper and Kim Beeman
Pam Males
AJ Fairey
Introduction of New Committee Members
Melissa Cooper
Call for nominations
1 President - Kim Beeman (unopposed)
2 Vice President - Mairin Raisdana (unopposed)
3 Secretary - Janine Murphy (unopposed)
4 Treasurer - Barb Reid (unopposed)
5 Liaison Officer - Rachel Shellman (unopposed)
6 Webmaster - Stojana Popovska / Ekta Nansi (share role - unopposed)
Meeting closed 5.15pm
ISLN Ordinary Meeting
Monday 29th April, 4.30 - 6.30pm
Venue: Senior Library, Tanglin Trust School
Thanks to Tanglin for providing refreshments.
Next meeting: Not announced yet
Attendees:
Barb Reid (UWCSEA East), Kim Beeman (Tanglin) Julie Muir ( SAIS), Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA-E) Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover) Marjan Slaats Mel Cooper Lisa Miller (CIS-LKS) Leela Rema(GESS) | Graham Grant (ISS) Ally Thompson (ISS) Kim Klein (SAIS) Sue Toms (UWCSEA East) Ekta Nansi (Tanglin) A-J Fairey (AIS) Hannah O’Donnell Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich) Monica Picard (Nexus) Janice Chin (Nexus) Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover) | Uma Manikantan(Tanglin) Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS) Clare Gilpin (OFS) Michael Kelly (Tanglin) Ali Cuthbert Kate Brundage Mary Wheatley (SAS) Ali Eatough (Marlborough) Jen Eu (AIS) Janine Murphy (Tanglin) Jane Hayes (Dulwich) |
Apologies:
Johanna Krijnsen [GESS], Linda Twitchett (AISS), Christina Simpson (Broadrick), Stojana Popovska (CIS-TK), Jill Gammon (SAIS) |
AFCC (Asian Festival of Children’s content)
Lead by Carlo Pena and Caroline Wan
We watched a video of AFCC’s work.
The country of focus this year will be Myanmar
5-8th September 2019
Basic presentation in googledoc
(NB You will need lumin pdf to open the full presentation)
Red Dot reveal
Lead by Kim Klein
The voting for this year’s Red Dot winners will close May 1st 2019.
Next years’:
Kim Klein will lead on this next year.
ISLN PD Day
Melissa Cooper and Kim Beeman
We are looking to set a date in October.
The format will be:
A keynote speaker, fantastic lunch, PD sessions by us that are short and sweet (15 minutes)
Kim called for people interested to be on the committee.
Barb Reid volunteered.
More volunteers will be needed. Please email kimberly.beeman@tts.edu.sg if you would like to join to committee.
Readers’ Cup: outsourcing of questions
Barb Reid
This year the Readers’ Cup questions were outsourced. Each candidate wrote 10 test questions which were used as test questions. The winning candidate was Marj Osborne. The cost was 3035 SGD for the full set of questions.
Barb moved to employ Marj again next year. This was seconded by Julie Muir and many others. Motion voted in favour.
Buddy system for new members
Kim Beeman
A buddy system has been successful in the past and new members will be offered a buddy again.
Proposal by Kim to continue. Seconded by Janine. Motion voted in favour of.
Buddies will be given 50 dollars towards expenses.
Buddies are:
Olivia (OFS) Janine Murphy (Tanglin)
Clare (OFS) Lisa Miller (CIS-LKS)
Fiona (Dulwich) Kate Brundage (SAS)
Kate (SAS) Kim Klein (SAIS)
David (GESS) Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover)
Jamon (SAS) Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover)
Rachel (Stamford) A-J Fairey (AIS)
Ali (Marlborough) Jane Hayes (Dulwich)
End of Year lunch
Julie Muir
EOY Lunch @ iO Italian Osteria Saturday 12 May 2019 @ 2pm
Details of lunch explained and invitation to RSVP on the following doodle:
The lunch is free if you have ISLN membership
Please invite your library staff too at the cost of 20 dollars.
Optional Library Tour of Senior, Junior, Infant libraries with Kim, Janine and Michael.
ISLN Ordinary Meeting
21st February, 4:30 - 6.30pm
Venue: Secondary School Library @GESS
Thanks to GESS for providing refreshments.
Next meeting: 29 April 2019
Senior Library, Tanglin Trust School
Attendees:
Kim Beeman (Tanglin) A-J Fairey (AIS) Lisa Marjan (CIS) Mel (CIS) Leela Rama (YIJC) Jane Hayes (Dulwich) Hannah O’Donnell (Dulwich) Linda Saad (AIS) Stojana (CIS) Johanna Krijnsen | Lisa (CIS) Linda Twitchett AIS Sarah Mounsey (DCSG) Monica Picard (NISS) Janice Chin (NISS) Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA-East) Janine Murphy (Tanglin) Joyce Miller (Chatsworth BT) Uma Manikantan (Tanglin) | Ekta Nansi (Tanglin) Mary Wheatley (SAS) Kate Brundage (SAS) Ali Cuthbert (SAS) Karen Melski (GEMS) Olivia Burford-Taylor (OFS) Susan Lussenhop (OFS) Clare Gilpin (OFS) Raquel Kurt Wittig |
Apologies:
Julie Muir (SAIS), Barb Reid, Kim Klein (SAIS), Sue Toms, Jenna Emerson, Elaine Fong (Chatsworth Orchard) Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover) Susanne Clower (OWIS) Christina Simpson (EtonHouse Broadrick), Jill Gammon (SAIS) |
Initial Group Activity: Updating Spaces
Led by Mel
Photos and discussion points from group chat are shared here: Updating Spaces
Joanna shared the process of planning a new library: 3 bids were entered to the board & Raeco won based on quality and looks. Joanna has taken 5 years to plan and finish this library. She used one consultant, Shastiq Khader-Georgi, to oversee the furniture project and installation. Her contact details are: skhader@raeco.com.au
Finances and Membership Quotes
Johanna Krijnsen
Reminder about membership dues and AGM.
Jo is sending out invoices for membership soon. Deadline for payment is before AGM Monday 29th April 2019
Balance of accounts was presented for the period: Nov 13 - Feb 21 2019
Credit 1,187.08 through affiliation with book depository since last meeting.
Please can everyone use the affiliation when you purchase book depository books. Here is the affiliate link: http://www.bookdepository.com/?a_aid=ISLN
Balance: $26,529.58
Bolinda Update
Kurt Wittig on behalf of Barb Reid
Here is the suggested ISLN Consortium agreement:
The International School Libraries Network (Singapore) has entered into a consortium agreement for Bolinda Digital (BorrowBox).
Schools that are financial members of The International School Libraries Network (Singapore) are welcome to join the consortium at a competitive rate and can take advantage of the shared collection.
The founding consortia members (Australian International School, Dulwich College, Stamford American School and United World College SEA) share (calculated by numbers of students) the initial set-up cost of USD2000 p.a. Additional schools wishing to join the consortium will be required to pay USD1000 p.a. (subject to Bolinda’s current subscription rate)
The founding schools have provided a substantial shared start up collection of audiobooks and eBooks and additional schools willing to join are expected to contribute USD0.40c per student by way of shared book purchases before going live with their subscription. Thereafter, as long as the annual subscription is paid there is no further requirement to purchase books. Books in the shared collection remain the property of the consortium if the school should decide not to continue with the Bolinda subscription. Schools joining the consortium should be prepared to add to the shared collection annually.
In the spirit of fair dealing, when purchasing additional books, members of the consortia should make them available in the shared collection where possible. It is understood that high use books and books with publisher restrictions (please note, the majority of eBooks have publisher restrictions, so in the interest of fairness members are asked to only restrict books that they feel their students need immediate access to) may be held in individual accounts and released to the shared account if their usage changes. Changes from individual accounts to shared accounts usually take place once every six months as this is a manual process handled by Bolinda.
As the platform is shared by all age groups, books that are in the age category 13+ and / or books with explicit content should be restricted to older students only. It is the responsibility of the purchasing school to make this known to Bolinda.
URL for LKSW
Kim Beeman
A URL for the LKSW will ensure that the webpages remain after TLs leave their schools.
This will cost $240 start up and thereafter hosting fees will be $120 to be paid by hosting school.
Motion proposed by Kim, seconded by Johanna. Voted on and passed.
Weeded Books for Nepalese Libraries
Melissa Cooper
Doreen - pick up August (earlier this year); send donated books to the Canadian School with the appropriate labels (Label for Doreen's boxes) in small boxes.
Doreen has requested picture/ elementary/ accessible nonfiction books in good condition.
Sturdy books & clearly labelled please or CIS staff have extra work repacking.
Red Dot
Kim Klein
Please read the books.See Kim’s update message
Readers Cup
Lisa Miller
Lisa asked for sign up for the Readers Cup on website by 01st March. $60 per team; one team per age category, per campus.
Readers Cup - see Lisa’s message about logistics & questions then email her.
Raeco Consortium
Melissa Cooper
Raeco consortium propose a delivery two times a year. Some frustration was voiced about length of time Raeco take to respond to emails.
Joyce Miller suggested Demco is cheaper (even with shipping costs) than Promatech and Raeco
Tour of GESS with Johanna Krijnsen
AOB
Barb Reid requests any feedback on Colin Goh as a visitor/presenter
Karen Melski recommends Scholastic as a supplier of books for children to buy. They also arrange character visits such as Geronimo Stilton.
Professional Development
Lisa Miller - Copyright
Lisa presented on the issue of copyright and what processes we use as a for-profit school in Singapore. CIS is using COMPASS to request permission to play music. Lisa added that musical scores have to be approved too.
CIS are considering KANOPY for licensed digital videos. Kim Beeman added that Kanopy has adult and mature content and is not password protected so may only be suitable for sixth form and teacher access to show children.
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore publish this advice: Copyright Advice for Educators 2012
Ekta Nansi
SG librarians research project
An overview of how to participate in an upcoming research project about librarians in SG
International and local schools.
Focuses on:
Ambiguity about role
Diversity of librarians’ background and experience
Here’s the link to the presentation - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10hSkb0EUWpqS4UaaS5c_g6FWsPx04cTYCv_aH1psGac/edit?usp=sharing
And the link to the survey - https://tinyurl.com/sglibrarycensus
ISLN Ordinary Meeting
14th November 2018, 4:30pm
Venue: Middle School Library @ Singapore American School
Thanks to SAS for providing refreshments.
Attendees:
Meg Johnson Mel Cooper Lisa Miller Marjan Slaats Hannah O’Donnell Mairin Raisdana Karen Melski Jenna Emerson Johanna Krijnsen Raquel Potaka Monica Picard Janice Chin Sue Toms | Julie Muir Jane Hayes Kim Klein Stojana Popovska Kim Beeman Kurt Wittig Linda Saad, Pam Males Susanne Clower Barb Reid Linda Twitchett Joyce Miller | Kate Brundage Ali Cuthbert, Mary Wheatley Clare Gilpin Susan Lussenhop Graham Grant A-J Fairey Jen Eu Lee Ally Thompson Uma Manikantan Janine Murphy Jill Gammon |
Apologies: Christina Simpson, Elaine Fong, Sarah Mounsey
Meeting commenced at 5:10
Mel Cooper welcomed everyone to the meeting and asked them to contribute a slide to the Bio Doc that introduces us to each other.
Raeco - working towards a consortium
Mel gave an update on progress with Raeco as the ISLN point person. She suggested a set address for delivery and discounted price list for paying members that will be shared via a google spreadsheet.
More info coming.
Readers Cup
Lisa gave an update on venue, participating school and date for next meeting. Thank you to Johanna as she is hosting the event at the German European School. Lisa said there will be one team, per division, per school.
There is no date deadline to enter a team.
Suggestion by Barb that we outsource the question writing.
Julie requested that we can show the information video about the Readers Cup to children.
**Lisa has asked Dulwich and this is fine as long as it is shown in school and not in the public domain. Therefore the link has not been shared here but is available upon request. Please email lisa.miller@cis.edu.sg or janine.murphy@tts.edu.sg for a copy of the Readers Cup Information Animoto.
Social Event
We are having a social get together: Thirstday @ Plonk, Thursday 6th December at 7pm. Link to sign up sheet. Julie has sent an email.
JAW
Please follow up - staff who were funded were asked to write a blurb and submit (librarynetwork@gmail.com). Brief and collaborative posts are fine.
Finance Report
Jo updated us on the financial standing - written report of funds in and out since the last report and current balance
Jo is using a new accounting program.
Reminder for everyone to use Book Dep affiliate - Book Depository So far use of the link has made us $2619.22
Jo issued an invitation: GESS to host next meeting, a Thursday in February,TBC
Kurt and Kim have tweeted to authors nominated for Red Dot Awards. They showed author responses on Twitter. Our twitter handle is @ISLNRedDot. Please like and retweet the Red Dot author recognition tweets. Light it up! Let the authors know they are loved in Singapore.
Kim Beeman discussed idea of having our own ISLN Twitter account - Twitter #islnsg. If you would like to help with tweeting, see Kim.
There is a Google group on ISLN Site resources - join our google group.
Z Sourcing
Jenna presenter this Spreadsheet - you can add to it and it is shared in our ISLN Google Group. It is a shared list of schools using Destiny who are able to add Z39.50 list to their database. Jenna also demonstrated how to add a tag as a subject heading.
Author visits
Barb shared a Link to confidential reviews for members only
Request access if you are a member. Remember it is confidential. Please add to this document for shared feedback.
AOB
Linda spoke about audiobooks. iTunes has not been effective and Overdrive is expensive.
Wheelers do bundling to make audiobooks more affordable. They offer platforms in Uk and Australia but none in Asia. Linda has called for an integrated platform using Wheelers and has asked the Consortium to utilise our collective buying power.
Barb has made enquiries with Bolinda and Overdrive and thinks that they might be a cheaper option..
Both Linda and Barb will feedback at the next meeting.
TeachMeet
Tuesday, 27 November 2018 from 17:30 at Brewerkz - sign-up
#in TLlead
Stojana demonstrated about how TLs can participate - Moodle forum inTLLead
BRE suggests detailed session on how to use it next time.
Protected Characteristics and Representation in the Library
Janine spoke about Equality and Diversity. Feedback was taken about how schools build representative collections in our community.
Lisa tells Jeremy’s (American School Chennai) story about finding a note from the librarian in a book that said that there was no need to borrow this book (it was on a sensitive topic) that the reader could take it if they needed to and return it if they wanted to. This gave the reader a safe way to access books that they needed.
Next meeting: Thursday, ? February 2019, at the German European School Singapore
The meeting closed at 6.15pm and was followed by Red Dot sharing & library tours
OUR SHARING SESSION lead by Kim Klein
Red Dot BOOKS
30 to 45 minutes of Red Dot book sharing - members brought books to share that could be put on a Red Dot list for picture, younger, older or mature readers.
List of considerations for nominated books:
- Authors from different countries
- Translation
- A balance of genres / protagonists
- Global Issues
- Published after 2014
- 1st in a series
- Author not shortlisted within the past 3 years
- Important that they have been read
Feel free to add suggestions to the Red Dot Recommendations GoogleSheet - https://docs.google.com/
/d/1RiEgHjHPOMroRxUpuQBStmtqGEspXeNEiA9lY1VRVIc/edit?usp=sharing
Please use this FORM to submit and this LINK to see what has been submitted already. You can also add directly to this spreadsheet.
ISLN Ordinary Meeting
4th September 2018, 4:30pm
Venue: Kishore Mahbubani Library @ United World College SEA (East Campus)
Thanks to Dune Salang - from OpenAthens for providing refreshments.
Attendees:
Melissa Cooper Pam Males Barb Reid Kurt Wittig Julie Muir Kim Beeman Olivia Burford-Taylor Janine Murphy Joyce Miller Clare Gilpin Marjan Slaats Lisa Miller | Stojana Popovska Karen Melski Christina Simpson Susanne Clower Hannah O'Donnell Mairin Raisdana Sue Toms Meg Johnson Monica Picard Johanna Krijnsen Michael Kelly Lydia Thio | Sarah Mounsey Jane Hayes Marina Kalkum Linda Saad Raquel Potaka Elaine Fong Kim Klein Susan Lussenhop Linda Twitchett Denise Tan Dune Salang |
Apologies: Ali Cuthbert, Mary Wheatley, Kate Brundage (SAS) Leela (Nexus) Khairin (Hwa Chong)
Mel Cooper and Sue Toms (hostess) welcomed everyone to the meeting and asked them to contribute a slide to the Bio Doc that introduces us to each other.
Dune from Open Athens (sponsor for afternoon tea) introduced her product.
Kurt moved to accept the minutes from the last meeting. Seconded by Jo. Minutes approved
Jo (Treasurer) said that the move to online banking is underway and that the affiliate link with Book Depository had been earning some money.She reminded those who want to become financial members that they can send their membership dues to her.
AWAITING OFFICIAL TREASURER'S REPORT TO BE INSERTED HERE Bank Balance $25370.01
Julie spoke about social events and asked some questions to gauge the enthusiasm for them. It seemed that the group felt:
- That the end of year function was a success and we should have one this year
- That people liked optional social events
- That at least 2 per year is good
Julie reminded people that partners and guest are always welcome at social events and that we have a special dinner at our November meeting to celebrate Thanksgiving and/or Christmas.
Barb said that we always have a dinner after a meeting. Usually close to the host school. Tonight’s is at BURP
Next event is 1pm Sunday 23rd September at The Living Cafe when Megan Graff (formerly CIS) was visiting. The RSVP is here. Please respond by 18th September.
Kim launched the two new websites that she and her husband Dan have been working on for ISLN isln.org.sg and for the Red Dots. All members thanked Kim and Dan. It is noted that this was a huge amount of work and very time consuming. The Network is extremely grateful.
Kim explained that the Book Depository affiliate link is on the page to raise money for ISLN at no cost to members. We have already raised in excess of $2000. Please encourage your purchasing Departments to use it.
Kurt talked about Regional PD - all of which is now listed on the webpage. Some to look out for in the near future are: LKSW, EARCOS and 21CLHK, EduTech
There is a Follett Workshop in Singapore on 17 October - please register here
Elaine said that John Zola is coming to Singapore and highly recommended him.
Here is more information about the John Zola workshop in November
Kurt & Kim are working on a Red Dot Twitter account and our ISLN hashtag is #islnsg
If you have issues with the mailing list or membership email librarynetwork@gmail.com to update your options.
Barb sent email to every school at end of the last break to promote ISLN. Only 2-3 members had had it passed on to them. The letter states some of the reasons that it is good to join ISLN.
Barb moved that we gift lifetime financial membership to anyone who has been a financial member for more that 5 years. This would encourage them to keep in touch and honour their contribution. Motion seconded by Mel. Passed unanimously
Lisa explained what the Readers Cup Festival is and said that we are looking for people to help organize the nationwide festival
Red Dot Promotion Materials and YouTube Playlists - book trailers and reviews can be found at these links as well as on the webpage - https://www.reddotawards.com/
Sarah talked about AFCC which starts this week. The Website is here
Denise from Closetful of Books is holding speed-dates with Authors and Illustrators from Sept 6 to 8
The speed-dates will be held just next to the bookstore in the Plaza of the National Library Building on 7 and 8 September. You may sign up for a slot here - http://bit.ly/AFCCspeed-dates
Monday 15 October - Andy Griffiths at Dulwich all students welcome for a free event. Sarah will share the sign up when it is ready.
Mel talked about Book Reach for Nepal (Doreen). Deliver gently used books to CIS Lakeside campus. Email melissa.cooper@cis.edu.sg to arrange delivery timing.Please attach a label and ensure that the box is not too big and sturdy. We hope the books will be collected by end of September
Doreen has asked for funding for transport but at the Exec Committee needs to discuss this and it would not happen before the September collection date. There was interest in members visiting Nepal ( 2 library staff from Tanglin went in the holidays and will report at a later meeting. A TL from KL also visited and said it is very worthwhile and that Doreen’s charity is making a difference) to assist and interest in supporting, assisting and training library staff if they were able to come to Singapore.
Michael shared details of an author visit. Paul Gravett, journalist, lecturer, curator www.paulgravett.com : possible for Nov 5th evening talk (contact Michael at TTS)
There is a session on 5-6th October for Librarians/Teachers/ Writers. He could be for Secondary
Elaine is looking for book covering alternatives
There was discussion about RAECO and their lack of response - ISLN will let them know our concerns
Contact Chhaya for a good response from Raeco.
Stojana talked about the success of the Global read aloud and willshare more detailed information to the list tomorrow.
The meeting closed at 6pm
ISLN Annual General Meeting and Ordinary Meeting
25th April 2018, 4:30pm
Venue: Lincoln Library (Elementary) @ Stamford American International School
Thanks to Dr Eric Sands - SAIS Superintendent for providing refreshments.
Annual General Meeting
13 financial members needed for a quorum (Total current financial membership=49)
24 financial members present
Quorum:
- Kim Beeman, Michael Kelly, Uma Mantikantan (Tanglin)
- Barb Reid, Susan Grigsby, Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA)
- Linda Twitchett, Meg Johnson, AJ Fairey, Raquel Potaka (AIS)
- Graham Grant (ISS)
- Jane Hayes, Sarah Mounsey, Hannah O’Donnell (Dulwich)
- Kim Klein, Julie Muir (SAIS)
- Lisa Miller, Nadine Bailey, Melissa Cooper (CIS)
- Elaine Fong (Chatsworth)
- Susanne Clower (OWIS)
- Alison Cuthbert, Mary Wheatley, Kate Brundage (SAS)
MEETING NORMS
- Confidentiality: Anything that is said here, stays in this meeting
- Agenda: We try to stick to the agenda and the timings
- Name tags: We have name tags again!
- Please sit next to someone who is not from your school
Please hand voting proxies to Secretary before the meeting starts
Proxy form can be downloaded here
ISLN Annual General Meeting (10 mins)
4:30 Open Meeting
Establish a quorum of financial members
Kim did a roll call and recorded who is present.
Acceptance of minutes from 2017 AGM proposed by Nadine; seconded by Jo
President’s report (Barb Reid): 2017-18 President’s report.
At our AGM last year we had 36 financial members, this year we have 49.
On 5 May we farewelled some key members of the network in grand style in The Pod@ NLB. Since then we have welcomed their replacements and seen new initiatives undertaken and old ones revived.
We have tried to include more PD in our meetings and many of our members have shared their experiences from the many different PD opportunities that they have had throughout the year. I would like to thank those members who have contributed PD sessions in meetings, at their schools and by organising visits to other libraries. We are so lucky to have so many opportunities available to us.
Kim Beeman and Nadine Bailey have worked hard all year on our online presence, Nadine maintaining the blog and Kim (and her husband Dan) working hard to make the Readers Cup and Red Dot web pages accessible. Thank you both so much.
In September we passed a motion enabling library support staff to apply for grants for professional development. 3 member schools have already taken advantage of this scheme. We hope that more will do so in the upcoming year.
Thank you Nadine for the huge amount of work you have done on the Red Dot choices for the 2018-19 year. This is ongoing, but hopefully nearing the end for this year. Voting for this year’s Red Dots concludes on 1 May and we already have about 500 votes. Last year 11 different schools cast almost 8,000!
Melissa, Lisa, Sarah, Susan worked extremely hard to revive the Readers Cup with the support of Jane, Susan, Nadine & Kate. A hugely successful event was held at Dulwich last week and we look forward to future events like this.
Julie organised a great get together at the Colbar and will be sharing some exciting news about an event coming up next month later in this meeting.
Ranita, who has been Treasurer for many years has decided to step down from the position this year. We cannot thank her enough for keeping the financial records & the membership up to date for so many years.
Two committee members will leave Singapore in June. Thank you to both Nadine & Susan MacIntosh for your work and commitment to the committee.
I would like to thank Follett, Raeco & A Closetful of Books for their ongoing support and for working closely with us. Again, this year, many of our schools have supported Book Reach with donations ensuring that ISLN’s presence is felt in Nepal.
We have shared information about authors, suppliers & PD. We have said hello and goodbye to many people. I would particularly like to thank Kim & Julie who only arrived in Singapore this year and immediately stepped into positions of responsibility in ISLN. That cannot have been easy and yet, it now seems like you have always been here.
It is so important that people are prepared to step up to be on a committee or at the very least, take part in activities that the network provides. April next year will be our 10th year as an incorporated society. I think that Ranita, Linda, Kim (and maybe Elaine) were all here when we incorporated and can testify to the fact that so many people in this room that have contributed to ISLN in so many ways. We thank you all, and all who went before.
I will be stepping down as President this year, but hope to go on being a part of this great organisation for a long time yet.
Thank you for a great year.
Barb Reid
UWCSEA East Campus April 2018
Treasurer’s report (Ranita Smart)
Appointment of two auditors: Kim Klein, Raquel Potaka
ISLN Statement of Accounts April 2017 - Mar 2018 | ||||
DATE | TRANSACTIONS | IN | OUT | BALANCE |
| Opening balance April 1, 2017 |
|
| $ 31,526.22 |
| Closing balance March 31, 2018 |
|
| $ 26,763.01 |
Election of office bearers
President: Mel Cooper / AJ Fairey: (20 votes for Mel; 6 for AJ--Mel Cooper wins)
Vice-President: Julie Muir
Secretary: (Joint/Job share) Barb Reid & Janine Murphy
Treasurer: Johanna Krijnsen
Liaison: Kurt Wittig
Webmaster: Kim Beeman
4:45 - 5 minute break
4:50 - Ordinary meeting (with new officers in place; New President running the meeting)
Acceptance of minutes from February meeting proposed by Nadine; seconded by Jo
Ordinary Meeting
Intention to Attend: Meg Johnson (AIS), Lisa Miller (CIS), Melissa Cooper (CIS), Nadine Bailey (CIS), Hannah O’Donnell, Jane Hayes (Dulwich), Johanna Krijnsen (GESS), Graham Grant, Susan MacIntosh (Nexus), Susanne Clower (OWIS), Kim Klein, Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Barbara Reid (UWC), Susan Grigsby (UWC), AJ Fairey (AIS), Allison Cuthbert, Anjana Sarda, Helen Robinson, Jill Gammon (SAIS), Julie Muir, Kate Brundage, Linda Twitchett, Mairin Raisdana (UWC), Mary Wheatley, Meg Johnson, Michael Kelly (Tanglin), Ranita Smart (GESS), Raquel Pokata, Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich), Susan Lussenhop, Uma Mantikantan (Tanglin)
Apologies : Christina Simpson, Kurt Wittig, Pam Males, Marjorie Kennedy
President’s welcome
Farewells - Susan Grigsby (UWCSEA), Susan MacIntosh (Nexus), Nadine Bailey (CIS)
New appointments - Sue Toms (UWCSEA), Janine Murphy (TTS), Marjan Slaats (CIS LKS), Stojana Popovska (CIS TK)
Membership for next year (Ranita)
- 2018 - 2019 ISLN Membership form
- Email membership forms to Ranita
- Direct deposit and checks are preferred; the address is on the form
Committee reports - 5 mins each
Red Dots - Nadine
- Last committee meeting tonight at 7:30 after dinner for 2018 - 2019 shortlists
- Voting closes 1 May (www.reddotawards.com)
- Contacting authors: We should let authors know when their books have been shortlisted. Nadine shared some positive experiences from this year.
Readers Cup Festival - Lisa
- Restarted this year after a hiatus
- Dulwich hosted
- Lisa shared a short video from this year’s festival.
- Lisa has volunteered to head the committee again next year.
- This year’s committee has suggested that new dates should be considered for next year.
Other business
- Tanglin Job alike for support staff (confirmed 19 October 2018) (Kim)
- $50 per person for library officers from member schools
- Registration coming soon
- Social mentors (Barb)
- Expressions of interest: Jane Hayes (Marjan Slaats), Lisa Miller (Janine Murphy), Elaine Fong (Stojana Popovska), AJ (Sue Toms)
- Up to $100 stipend for mentors welcoming new members
- Visit to SMU legal library (Nadine)
- No one who signed up showed up at SMU
- Kind request: Please come when you sign up for things, or at the very least, make sure to let someone know if you can’t come
- International Library Week (Nadine)
- Looking for ways to a way to raise the profile of international school librarians
- New hashtag: #INTLlead
- Wherever you can, promote other international school librarians
- Idea from Danny Glasner: Claim UN book week as International Library Week
- 2017-2018 Author Visit Updates
- Quek Hong Shin - The Amazing Sarong (CIS)
- Evelyn Bookless - Captain Green and the Plastic Scene (leaving Singapore at the end of this school year) (Chatsworth, Tanglin)
- Barbara Moxham - great illustrator (CIS)
- Future meetings - dates, days, venues
Month | Day | School |
April | Wednesday 25 | Stamford American School |
September 2018 | Tuesday | UWCSEA - East |
November 2018 | Day to be decided | SAS |
January 2019 | Thursday 17. January 2019 | GESS |
April 2019 | Wednesday | Tanglin Trust |
- End of Year Function Date: Thursday, 17 May at 6:30pm (Julie)
- Bakalaki Greek Taverna
- Mezze plates, dessert platters, one welcome drink per person
- Free to financial members
- Partners and library staff welcome (subsidised: $20/person)
- Please RSVP: Look for an email from Julie soon
5:20 Break to replenish drinks
PD session - 10 minutes - 5 minutes question time
Kate Brundage - (StrengthsFinder): Using your strengths to enhance your work / personal life and help others to do the same
- StrengthsFinder is a psychometric test created from Gallup research
- The premise is to focus on things we do well
- “Are you doing what you’re good at everyday?”
Sign up here to do a short PD presentation at a future meeting.
Sharing session
3x PD sessions for next time -
- Mel Cooper - Beyond Leveled Texts: Supporting Literacy Program Using Alternative Resources
- Kim Beeman - Makerspaces
- Johanna Krijnsen - Design Library Spaces
6:00 Meeting Close
Next meeting: September 2018 - UWCSEA East - Secondary Library
ISLN meeting 26th February 2018 (4:30pm)
Venue: Australian International School (Senior Library)
Address: 1 Lor Chuan, Singapore 556818
We welcome RAECO to the meeting and thank them for providing refreshments.
Intention to attend
Barb Reid (UWCSEA East), Nadine Bailey, Kim Beeman (Tanglin Trust), Susan Macintosh, Julie Muir, Ranita Smart (GESS), Melissa Cooper (CIS LKS), Lisa Miller (CIS LKS), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover), Susanne Clower (OWIS) Trevor McCann (RAECO) Chhaya Patel (RAECO) Phillip Babich (RAECO) Sarah Mounsey, Jane Hayes, Hannah O’Donnell (Dulwich College), Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover), Jill Gammon (SAIS), Susan Grigsby (UWCSEA East) Linda Saad (AIS), Uma Manikantan (Tanglin Trust) Christina Simpson (EtonHouse Broadrick), Julie Muir (SAIS), Raquel Potaka (AIS) Helen Robinson (Chatsworth East), Kim Klein (SAIS), Monica Picard (NEXUS), Graham Grant (ISS), Sandra Sangrines (ISS), Michael Kelly (TTS).
Apologies
Mary Wheatley (SAS), Ali Cuthbert (SAS), Johanna Krijnsen (GESS)
MEETING NORMS
- Confidentiality: Anything that is said here, stays in this meeting
- Agenda: We try to stick to the agenda and the timings
- Name tags: We have name tags again!
- Please sit next to someone who is not from your school
Acceptance of minutes from November meeting Sarah proposed; Pam seconded
President’s welcome
Farewells and New appointments - AJ (AIS), Celeste (TTS), Susanne (OWIS)
Trevor - RAECO - 5mins
New Southeast Asia Manager: Phillip Babbage (based in Indonesia)
Treasurer's report & Membership for next year (Ranita)
- 2018 - 2019 ISLN Membership form
- To be paid up before the next ISLN meeting in April in time for the next AGM
- Balance as of December 2017: approx $26,500
- Email membership forms to Ranita
- Direct deposit and checks are preferred; the address is on the form
Committee reports - 5 mins each
Red Dots - Nadine
- Picture and younger are pretty much done; older needs shortening; mature is close
- Please let Nadine know if you have non-Australian, non-UK, non-USA titles published after 2015, let Nadine or another committee member know
- Translated titles especially encouraged!
- Voting starts for this year opens on 29th February (www.reddotawards.com)
Readers Cup festival - CIS
- “A Festival of Possibility”
- Book Trailer and Better Book Cover Showcases
- Mixed-school activities
- Red Dot Book Knowledge Competition
- Resources: LKS libguide for Red Dot (younger/older and mature); TK libguide for Red Dot
- Two teams of six kids per school for younger and older
- Two teams of four kids for mature
- 19 April at Dulwich College (1:30pm to 6pm)
- Entirely digital competition (Kahoot/Socrative); no judges
- This year is a test run; feedback welcomed!
- Even if your school isn’t participating, please feel free to come along!
- There is a google doc with a question bank; please feel free to add questions
- ISLN to provide money for prizes
- See the slides (with all of the details) here
Committee support for support staff PD - reminder
- Member schools have one more month to apply for money for support staff PD for this financial year
Other business
- Grants for PD money for TLs in schools that don’t support PD - Chris
- Chris would like to have money available for TLs whose schools aren’t supportive of PD
- Chris made a motion to open the money to any TL or support staff who apply for it (rather than just support staff, as it currently is); Jill seconded
- The motion did not pass; the $500 for support staff remains
- Tanglin Job alike for support staff (tentative 19 October 2018) (Kim)
- Should fall during most schools’ autumn holidays
- More details coming soon; cost estimated at $50/person
- Discussion re: moving Red Dot voting and Readers Cup to end of term 1 (December) (Nadine)
- Proposal:
- Start earlier (books ready by October)
- Readers Cup in December
- Keep voting later on in the year (as it is now)
- National Read-Aloud with padlets, hyperdocs, mystery skypes, etc (so that the readers cup is more of a coda at the end)
- First Readers Cup on the new schedule would be December 2019 (2019/2020)
- The motion passed by one vote
- Social mentors (Barb)
- Proposal: Social mentors for 2018/2019 year; mentors would be reimbursed up to $100/mentee
- The idea is to provide new members with someone not from their school or from the committee to go out with them and welcome them to Singapore
- Barb proposed; Jane seconded
- The motion passed
- Vendors at meetings (Barb)
- Should vendors be allowed to stay for entire meetings?
- Barb proposed that they be allowed to stay until the break, and be invited after to any socialising, but not stay for the whole meeting, so that people can feel free to share their thoughts
- Barb proposed; Kim seconded
- The motion passed
- Visit to SMU legal library (Nadine)
- Please fill out the doodle that Nadine sent out as soon as possible if you are interested in going
- There is another upcoming event about learning spaces on 12 March; please see Nadine’s email for more details; Sign-up is required
- 2017-2018 Author Visits
- Matthew Gollub, 14-18 May (TTS, Michael)
- Suppliers & Speakers (by invite to financial members) spreadsheets
- Infiniti Roadshow: 23 March 2018 at Tanglin at 4pm; contact Kim Beeman with questions
- TeachMeet: 22 February and 22 May at the HIVE - follow the link to sign up
- EdCamp - 24 March at Tanglin
- Followed by lunch and Brad Tyrrell
- There will be a lunch and libguides session provided free for members
- Brad Tyrell is from Scotch College, Perth
- The next LKSW will take place in Bangkok on Thursday 8th, Friday 9th and Saturday 10th November 2018.
- Thursday 8th - School tours; Friday 9th and Saturday 10th - Conferences at Bangkok Patana School
Future meetings - dates, days, venues
Month | Day | School |
April | 25 April | Stamford American School |
September 2018 | Tuesday | UWCSEA - East |
November 2018 | ||
January 2019 | ||
April 2019 | Wednesday | Tanglin Trust |
- End of year function Date : 4, 11, or 18 May (Julie)
- ALA - expensive worth it? (Susan M)
- Kim and Kate offered up their expertise
- Doreen: Book Reach will be here in about two weeks
- Wheelers platform
- ISLN will not pay for the platform this year
- Release of a new environmental picture book Captain Green and the Plastic Scene written by Evelyn Bookless (an ironic name for an author, I know!) - a teacher at Dulwich (currently on mat leave). She is keen to promote her new book before she leaves Singapore in July - $350 per full day and $200 per half. She has availability in May and June - evelynbookless@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 84057660
- Graeme mentioned a new site for citations: citemaker.com
Break to replenish drinks
PD sessions - 10 minutes each presenter - 5 minutes question time
Elaine and Susan - Two minutes (each) takeaway from 21c Learning HK
- Susan: Joyce Valenza and digital curation (all of Susan’s notes are here: https://www.smore.com/5vqkf)
- Elaine: Exit tickets, Canva, Noun Project, Fake News for the Primary Crowd
Elaine Fong - Padlet (slides at that link)
Kate Brundage (StrengthsFinder) - postponed until the next meeting
Sign up here to do a short PD presentation at a future meeting.
Sharing session
Next meeting AGM: Apr 25, Wed: Stamford - Location TBA. Membership
4x PD sessions for next time -
Kate Brundage - Strengths Finder
Mel Cooper - Beyond Leveled Texts: Supporting Literacy Program Using Alternative Resources
Kim Beeman - Makerspaces
Johanna Krijnsen - Design Library Spaces
Meeting Close
Useful links
If you are not receiving the ISLN emails, please join our google group. Contact Barb Reid to be added.
Participation in the google group is welcomed from all members, irrespective of free/premium membership.
Also, remember you can get information about our network at our blog. And do consider submitting a blog post to share with others.
“Who we are” document - bit.ly/islnmembers -- it would be great if everyone could fill this in -- this is irrespective of free/premium membership
Reminder for each premium (paid) member school to fill in details of nominated people (to receive premium benefits) -- see current paid-up member schools -- list
*Please note that we are using this information to distribute information to paid members; if you don’t fill this in you won’t get this information!
ISLN Ordinary Meeting 2017
21st November 2017 (4:30pm)
Venue: Dulwich College (Senior Library) map here
Address: 71 Bukit Batok West Avenue 8, Singapore 658966
Ordinary Meeting
Members Present: Jane Hayes, Sarah Mounsey, Pat Chandler, Hannah O’Donnell (hosts), Barb Reid (UWCSEA East), Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA), Linda Twitchett AIS, Susan MacIntosh (NISS), Nadine Bailey (CIS TK), Meg Johnson (AIS), Linda Saad (AIS), Mel Cooper (CIS Lakeside), Lisa Miller (CIS LKS), Raquel Potaka (AIS), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover), Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover), Graham Grant (ISS will be late), Ranita Smart (GESS), Johanna Krijnsen (GESS), Marina Kalkum (GESS), Shirley Yeo (JS Library), Melissa Maniam (DUCKS Library), Julie Muir (SAIS), Elaine Fong (Chatsworth Orchard), Susan Grigsby (UWCSEA East), Kim Klein (SAIS), Ryan Dempsey (GEMS), Monica Picard (NISS), Jenna Emerson (Follett) Helen Robinson (Chatsworth East), Linda Martin (visiting Teacher-Librarian from Georgia)
Apologies : Christina Simpson EtonHouse Broadrick, Ali Cuthbert (SAS), Mary Wheatley (SAS), Kate Brundage (SAS)
There will be no social event after the meeting as we will be having a Thanksgiving / Christmas meal during the meeting, because of this, we may finish a little later. Please feel free to attend and leave early if you have to.
Please sit next to someone who is not from your school
Acceptance of minutes from September meeting (Sarah made a motion, Jo seconded)
President’s welcome
Jenna (Follett) - Maternity leave update (her email will still be checked daily while she is on leave) and a thank you from everyone for Follett’s sponsorship of the dinner
Farewells - David Wyche (Raeco), Pat Chandler (Dulwich), Jenn Kennedy (AIS)
New appointments - Hannah O’Donnell (Dulwich)
Carlo from the National Book Development Council (15 min)
- Carlo’s presentation is available here
- The Book Council (non-profit); founded in 1968
- All in Young Writers Festival (17 - 18 March 2018)
- Focus: encouraging children (ages 12 to 25) to write
- Contests: 55 word stories, speculative fiction, more (on their Facebook page)
- 1 or 2 day passes to the festival
- School partners (if you have 10 to 15 delegates: Complimentary tickets for teachers for every five delegates attending)
- IG: @all_in_singapore; Twitter: @ALLIN_SINGAPORE
- Asian Festival of Children’s Content (5 - 9 September 2018)
- Mostly for adults
- Some activities for children
- 100 - 150 speakers
- Carlo’s contact information: carlo@bookcouncil.sg (6342 5122)
Treasurer's report (Ranita)
Committee reports - 5 mins each
Red Dots - Nadine
- Padlet lists here
- Google Spreadsheet for longlist submissions here
- “Balanced baskets”--each library should submit a list of no more than eight balanced books for their longlist, using the padlet or the Google spreadsheet
- Books must be: the first in their series, published after 2015, not a previous Red Dot Winner
Readers Cup festival - CIS
- April
- Competition and activities that promote deeper thinking
- Let Lisa, Mel, or Nadine know if you want to participate by the end of this week (24 November)
Committee support for support staff PD - update
- Two schools have used the PD money so far for support staff from ISLN
- Thank you to SAS for the library officer JAW
- Tanglin to host (tentatively October 2018) next library officer JAW
Other business
- Grants for PD money for TLs in schools that don’t support PD - Chris (off the agenda for the moment as Chris is not here; Chris can raise again at the next meeting)
- SAS Job-Alike - next year at Tanglin (tentative October 2018)
- Webmaster
- Request from Nadine to update information
- Send blog posts through to Nadine
- Supplier information: request to update confidential information, especially for problematic or great vendors
- Author visits: document to confidentially share information about the quality of author visits; needs updating
- 2017-2018 Author Visits
- Sarah Brennan: available the week before Chinese New Year; $1800/day. Contact Julie Muir at Stamford if you are interested in booking her for that week
- Alan Gratz (author of Refugee): Contact Suji in KL if you are interested; costs TBD
- Katherine Rundell: At Tanglin in May or June; contact Kim Beeman or Celeste Fisher if you are interested in getting her for a few days; costs TBD
- Eliot Schrefer: Back in February for Words Go Round
- Infiniti Roadshow: 23 March 2018 at Tanglin (exact time TBD); contact Kim Beeman with questions
- TeachMeet: Next Tuesday, 28 November at the HIVE (Sign up here)
- Elaine arranging a social after 21st Century Learning in January or early February at Jens (details TBD)
- Sarah Mounsey gave away copies of her children’s books
Break to replenish drinks
PD sessions - 10 minutes each presenter - 5 minutes question time
Julie Muir - Top 10 in 10
Kurt Wittig - Using analogies to teach research concepts
Kim Klein - Lesson ideas and SIOP (Handout here)
Sign up here to do a short PD presentation at a future meeting.
Sharing session
Next meeting: Feb *, Mon: AIS - Senior Library
3x PD sessions for next time - please confirm
Elaine Fong - Padlet
Meg Johnson - The benefits of Google Drive
Kate Brundage - (StrengthsFinder) Using your strengths to enhance your work /personal life and help others to do the same
Meeting Close
Useful links
If you are not receiving the ISLN emails, please join our google group. Contact Barb Reid to be added; her email is bre@uwcsea.edu.sg
Participation in the google group is welcomed from all members, irrespective of free/premium membership.
Also, remember you can get information about our network at our blog. And do consider submitting a blog post to share with others.
“Who we are” document - bit.ly/islnmembers -- it would be great if everyone could fill this in -- this is irrespective of free/premium membership
Reminder for each premium (paid) member school to fill in details of nominated people (to receive premium benefits) -- see current paid-up member schools -- list
*Please note that we are using this information to distribute information to paid members; if you don’t fill this in you won’t get this information!
ISLN ordinary meeting 2017
14th September 2017 (4:30pm)
Venue: Nexus International School (Tanjong Katong) map here
Address: 201 Ulu Pandan Rd, Singapore 596468
Phone: 6536 6566
Ordinary Meeting
Members Present: Susan MacIntosh (host), Barb Reid (UWCSEA East), Susan Grigsby (UWCSEA East), Helen Robinson (Chatsworth East), Pam Males (UWCSEA Dover), Ali Cuthbert (SAS), Kurt Wittig (UWCSEA Dover), Mairin Raisdana (UWCSEA East), Jane Hayes (Dulwich, Singapore), Jo Krijnsen (GESS), Graham Grant (ISS International School, Singapore), Kim Beeman (Tanglin), Michael Kelly (Tanglin), Uma Manikantan (Tanglin), Ekta Nansi (Tanglin), Meg Johnson (AIS), Linda Saad (AIS), Christina Simpson (EtonHouse Broadrick), Lisa Miller (CIS), Jill Gammon (SAIS), Pat Chandler and Sarah Mounsey (Dulwich), Ranita Smart (GESS), Jenna Emerson (Follett), Raquel Potaka (AIS), Julie Muir (SAIS) will be late ; Elaine Fong (Chatsworth Orchard Campus) will be late, Ryan Dempsey (GEMS Singapore), Foo Soo Chin (SOTA)
Apologies
Nadine Bailey (CIS), Mary Wheatley (SAS), Marjorie Kennedy (ICS), Kim Klein (SAIS); Linda Twitchett (AIS); Monica Picard (Nexus), Celeste Fisher (Tanglin)
Please sit next to someone who is not from your school
1 min Acceptance of minutes from April meeting
Chris and Jo moved to accept
President’s welcome
New committee members: Kim Beeman (Tanglin - secretary) and Julie Muir (SAIS - Vice President / Social)
Thank you for May 5, 2017 - End of Year function and farewells NLB Pod
Introductions - New & Old members
Please introduce the person sitting next to you
New Members
SAS - Elementary School - Mary Wheatley (unable to attend this meeting)
UWCSEA (East) - Susan Grigsby
Tanglin - Michael Kelly (Infant School); Kim Beeman (Secondary)
SAIS - Julie Muir (Junior)
Leavers
Susanne Clower (UWCSEA East)
Format for future meetings -slam / book
Survey of things we would like 10 min PD on
Starting from next meeting, along the lines of TeachMeet
Barb asks that everyone fill out the survey about PD
Subcommittees & expectations
Upcoming social events - (Julie)
Suggested dates for Colbar: Oct Sat 7 or 14 or 21
After this meeting go to E-Sarn Thai - Directions
Introduce the person sitting next to you
Everyone was asked to introduce the person sitting next to them
Treasurer's report
Paid membership from 15 schools | $2,725.00 |
Network party @ pod | $5,829.02 |
Closing Balance @ 13 Sep | $29,651.25 |
Committee reports
Red Dots - Barb / Katie
- The shortlists are out
- Voting: 1 March to 1 May (someone to organise voting before then)
- 2018 - 2019 shortlists to be announced by May 2018
- Closet Full of Books can provide the Red Dot Books
- ISLN to purchase any available Red Dot Books for the Wheelers Consortium
Readers Cup festival - CIS
- Move towards a Readers Festival
- Island-wide competition: 21 March
- No judges; electronic competition (pub quiz style)
- Film festival, book cover gallery (modelled on the Singapore Writers Festival)
- Fixed plan to be announced at next meeting. Please speak to Mel, Kate, or Lisa with any ideas.
Charity Committee - Updates. Moving forward - Committee decisions
- Report from last year: Money was given for Book Reach boxes, and books were given to Bless, which goes to a reading programme for students in HDBs
- Lisa Williams reported on a new initiative to create libraries in Nepal; ISLN will help pay freight costs; Books can go to CIS (Lakeside) until early October
- Susan MacIntosh asked about sending books to Nepal through a project supported by some teachers at Nexus at CIS
- Barb mentioned the complexities of sending money to charities outside of Singapore
Committee support for support staff PD - update & procedures
- Executive Committee would like to propose a motion to redirect some of the money earmarked for charities to go towards PD for local support staff at ISLN member libraries
- Proposal: Provide $500 per member school per year for PD for local staff. In exchange, ISLN needs receipts and expects a blog post about the PD. To apply, member schools would email the committee.
- There was discussion about the possibility of opening this up to any member, not just support staff
Barb mentioned the difficulty of maintaining well functioning sub-committees.
Chris made a motion to open all money for PD to anyone at any school, with a committee to decide on the merit of each application. Elaine seconded.
Graeme made a motion to table the PD money discussion for librarians at small schools. Jo seconded.
Barb put a motion forward to provide up to $500 per member school for support staff PD. Kim seconded, and the motion passed.
Upcoming PD
- Job-Alike-Workshop: 20 October at SAS from 8:30am to 4:30pm; $55/head (including ISLN discount)
- 3rd regional workshop on school libraries in South East Asia: 2 -3 October in KL
- Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop: 16 - 18 November 2017 in HCMC
- 21st Century Learning: Hong Kong, 19 - 20 January 2018
- IB Workshops: Singapore (TTS), 14 - 16 October 2017
- ECIS Triennial: Chennai, 16 - 17 February 2018
Other business
Blog: Barb mentioned that Nadine is thinking about the format of the blog (and whether or not the blog is the best format)
Barb mentioned the possibility of holding future (2018 - 2019) meetings at venues other than schools
Barb put out a request to update information about suppliers and guest authors/speakers on the blog.
Request for funds for schools that host meetings: Pam raised the possibility of providing money for schools for tea coffee. Exec committee can provide money if a sponsor is not available, but schools are encouraged to try and arrange sponsors where possible.
Monty Bear - the books, the authors & other interesting things (Julie - SAIS): Julie brought flyers and information about the Monty Bear books, written by SAIS parents. The books are two for $25, and the authors are available for author visits for the cost of taxi fare.
Recent PD:
- Foo Soo Chin (SOTA) shared that SOTA Library hosted a learning journey from the team from SMU Libraries on 25 August 2017, and had taken up the invitation from ISLN to write a blog post about it. She also shared briefly on an “Assertiveness Skills for Managers” course she had attended, and had offered to share more at a future meeting or in a blog post.
- Kate Brundage (SAS) attended ALA annual conference this summer. She mentioned a design thinking workshop she attended; there is a design thinking for libraries toolkit available for free online.
- Jane (Dulwich) and Jo (German-European School) also shared about some of their recent PD
Next meeting
Tuesday, 21 November at Dulwich
Sharing session
Members brought book titles to recommend and share:
- The Idiot - Elif Batuman
- My Life with the Liars - Caela Carter
- Tidy - Emily Gravett
- Being Jazz - Jazz Jennings
- Kampong Spirit - Josephine Chia
- The House on Palmer Road - SI-HOE S.S., SIM EE WAUN
- The Olympians (graphic novel series) - George O’Connor
- Skin Again - bell hooks
- 101 Things to Learn in Art School - Kit White
- Mechanica - Lance Balchin
- One Photo - Ross Watkins
- Home - Carson Ellis
- The Honest Truth - Dan Gemeinhart
- Neurocomic - Hana Ros
- Going Places - Paul A Reynolds
- Rad Women Worldwide - Kate Schatz
- Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World - edited by Kelly Jensen
- Chester and Gus - Cammie McGovern
- Ban This Book - Alan Gratz
- The Emerald Mile - Kevin Fedarko
- Molly & Mae - Danny Parker
- Non-book recommendations: (Australian) Scholastic Book Club (customer_service@scholastic.com.au; catalogs here: http://www.scholastic.com.au/schools/bookclub/), NetGalley
Contact information from David from Raeco: dwyche@raeco.com.au
2017 AGM and ordinary meeting minutes
20 April 2017 - Australian International School - 4:30pm
Voting proxy received by Secretary from Celeste - TTS
ISLN Annual General Meeting 2017
9 financial members needed for quorum (Total current membership =36)
20 financial members present
Katie Day, Barbara Reid, Susanne Clower - UWCSEA East Campus
Pam Males, Kurt Wittig - UWCSEA Dover
Sarah Mounsey, Jane Hayes, Pat Chandler - Dulwich College
Jill Gammon - SAIS,
Ben Farr, Michael Kelly - Tanglin Trust School
Johanna Krijnsen, Ranita Smart - GESS
Lisa Miller, Nadine Bailey, Melissa Cooper - CIS
Helen Robinson - Chatsworth East Campus
Elaine Fong - Chatsworth Orchard Campus
Meg Johnson, Linda Twitchett, Linda Saad, Racquel - AIS
Christina Simpson - EtonHouse Broadrick
Susan MacIntosh & Monica Picard - Nexus
Ryan - GEMS
Trevor, David - Visitors from Raeco
Apologies: Kim Klein - SAIS, Celeste Fisher, Jacqui Makselon - TTS, Jenna Emerson-Follett, Graham Grant - ISS
4:32 meeting opened
Quorum established
Acceptance of minutes from 2016 AGM
Moved by Christina seconded by Kurt
President’s report (Katie Day)
Treasurer’s report (Ranita Smart)
ISLN Statement of Accounts April 2016 – Mar 2017 | ||||
DATE | TRANSACTIONS | IN | OUT | BALANCE |
| Opening balance April 1, 2016 |
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| $ 31,856.52 |
| Closing balance March 31, 2017 |
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| $ 31,526.22 |
ISLN Statement of Accounts January - December 2016 | IN | OUT | BALANCE |
Opening balance Jan 1, 2016 |
|
| $31,938.85 |
Membership dues | $2,730.00 |
|
|
Readers Cup participation fees | $2,760.00 |
|
|
Readers Cup reimbursement for books | $951.18 |
|
|
Readers Cup expenses |
| $1,914.40 |
|
Catering |
| $768.11 |
|
Boxes for charity |
| $278.20 |
|
Bank charges |
| $80.00 |
|
Closing balance December 31, 2016 | $6,441.18 | $3,040.71 | $35,339.32 |
Election of office bearers
Nominations are:
President: Barbara Reid (Philip) (UWCSEA East)
Vice-President: Julie Muir (SAIS)
Secretary: Kim Beeman (TTS)
Treasurer: Ranita Smart (GESS)
Liaison: Susan MacIntosh (Nexus)
Webmaster: Nadine Bailey (CIS)
No positions were contested. Executive committee unanimously voted for by financial members.
Meeting closed : 5pm
Ordinary meeting
Meeting commenced 5pm
Katie continued to run the meeting as Kim was not present to take the minutes. Barb continued to take the minutes.
Acceptance of minutes from February meeting
Moved by Pam (UWCSEA Dover) seconded by Jo (GESS)
Details of Social Event at NLB 5 May 2017
Additions to guest list
Judy Kong
Kairhul
Reports from :
Red Dot (info re-potential shortlists), re-vamped Readers Cup, Charity committees
Meeting schedule 2017/18
September Nexus - Thursday
November Dulwich - Tuesday
February Dover - Monday
April Stamford - Wednesday
Thanks to Raeco for sponsorship for refreshment
OFS update: Jan Cox (previous member coming on May 5th)
Farewells to those who are leaving:
- December: Yvonne Barrett left AISS
- June: Jacqui Makselon - TTS
- June: Ben Farr - TTS
- June: Katie Day - UWCSEA East
- June: Rosa Shin-Gay - SAS (back to the classroom)
NEWS
Chatsworth having success with Red Dot books
UWCSEA East Primary finding Scholastic bookclub is working well (fast, free delivery)
UWCSEA Dover has been using On Sudden Hill
Meeting closed 5:22
Minutes ISLN meeting 28th February 2017
Venue: ISS International School
21 Preston Road
Singapore 109355
Next Meeting:
AGM : 20th April, Thursday: AISS
Present
Katie Day, Barb Reid, Graham Grant (HOST), Sarah Mounsey, Jane Hayes, Melissa Cooper, Jill Gammon, Kim Klein, Meg Johnson, Jenns, Kurt Witiig, Linda Twitchett, Pam Males, Susanne Clower, Ranita Smart, Jo Krijnsen, Kate Brundage, Jane Hayes, Elaine Fong, Ben Farr, Susan Grant, Jacqui Makselon, Susan Macintosh, Monica, Nadine Bailey, Karen Chin, Marjorie Kennedy, Beryl, Bhagna, Lisa Miller
Apologies
Pat Chandler, Soo Chin
1 min Acceptance of minutes from November meeting
Moved: Kate Brundage Seconded: Jo Krijnsen
President’s welcome
LKSW2017 went well thank you to all the schools that hosted a tour and members who hosted homestays.
Barb commented that SUTD is worth going to and is open to the public.
Nadine said CIS has made contact with Brad to discuss various IT issues that came up in the pre-conference.
Kurt said that Kim Beeman’s (Tanglin Secondary next year) fake news was phenomenal
Susanne led a tour to SAS ELC and said it was fantastic and worth a look for people interested in Reggio
EPIC - There has been some confusion over the use of EPIC!. Nadine is concerned about managing it in a 1:1 environment and Ben being told that he could not sign up and then being yes. Barb has personal contact with EPIC! and will try to resolve these issues and report back.
REFME - accounts disappeared so discussing what to do. Read Katie’s blog
Graham says that Chegg = Spotify and there are concerns over data collection.
Alternatives being looked at are Endnote - Zotero - Mendalay - Noodletools - Online generator (South Australia)
Barb - Bank account problems resolved
Ranita - ISLN sponsored the LKSW2017. The bank has $31000 approx
Committee reports
Red Dot committee - Katie Day, UWCSEA East
NEXT GET-TOGETHER - Monday, 13 March for shortlists
Readers Cup - Lisa Miller & Nadine Bailey, CIS gave a presentation - please think about it and we will make some decisions in April
Lisa - CIS has Mature Readers in 2 groups reading 3 novels - amazing race style
Sarah Mounsey - Dulwich is doing House Competitions. Strategic teams with winning team on stage
SAS - Kids are going to pitch ideas
Rebrand as - A Festival of Possibilities
Charity Committee - Ben Farr, Tanglin & Sarah Mounsey, Dulwich
Ben
-- Doreen requested help with freight and secondhand books
-- Myra hope to become a Global Reading Ambassador. She has a project in Manila
Looking at supporting freight costs.
Sharing session
Sarah Mounsey giving away RD bookmarks
Meg requested Information on developing a Human Library
It was suggested that she look at The Moth - https://themoth.org/
Marjorie mentioned a local storyteller - Yen Sieow - as a possible example
Barb - said that she did a project at Alice Smith using Fotobabble that worked really well. She will share information with anyone interested
Kate - SAS gave all grandparents given the same prompt - kids wrote books - then had a family event
Katie - Talk about your Mother Tongue - Immigrant Stories
Barb had Fleur Vella-Chang from Words Go Round and she was fantastic
Ben Farr - TTS is having James Mayhew - picture books & storyteller - he has 29 May - 2 June week free - contact Ben
Nadine - Rhino Poaching - Jennifer Fox from HK 14-17 April talk for free
Here is the link to the speaker:
And the person who is organising her timetable is Amorie van Wyk and her email is:
<amorievw@yahoo.co.uk> and her phone: 91684171
Ben Farr - Cassandra Wye - October - November - Ben has emailed info to ISLN
Nadine CIS had author Andy Chua who is a paleontologist - boys loved him
Jo has been contacted by Catherine Cousins (publisher) and Jean-Claude (Mirabel) is here Thursday & Friday.
Elaine said Sherlock Sam authors are very good
Katie - UWCSEA is having Alice Pung as part of Words Go Round
Ben - mentioned an event at Bishan NLB tomorrow - Alice Pung
Katie showed supplier spreadsheet and asked people to update it
Furnware sponsored the afternoon tea at the meeting
Lisa & Nadine would like a similar authors spreadsheet but we would need to exercise caution as it is public. Maybe an omission would hint that it was not a successful visit, or just a contact to discuss verbally?
Sarah - is doing an in conversation with Deb Fitzpatrick
Elaine & Nadine presenting - 21 May.
Ben & Katie are moderating
Ben shared the link for the CBCA - Notable Books
Other business
ECIS Chennai February 18
Barb has been in contact with Scholastic Bookclub Australia who say that they will ship for free. Their books are better quality than Scholastic US & UK. Barb will try it and report back.
Social events
Elaine organising April 29 Sat Brunch at 11am at Montana
Review of Montana are here. They are located behind SOTA and the nearest MRT is Dhoby Ghaut. Their claim to fame are waffles, and their coconut cold brew (coffee)
Sign up here if you are interested.
Date claimer for last social event this year May 5th at 6:30pm at The Pod on top of the NLB
This is a farewell to Katie, Jacqui and Ben - all original members during the first Hands on Literacy that led to ISLN incorporation. Also we have several very BIG birthdays this year (Graham, Barb, Katie and Pam - 240 years between them !!!!) so it seemed like a great way to finish the year. We hope as many people as possible will come and it will be free for any of the ISLN member’s library staff. There will be a small charge for other visitors. We need to start a list of who we think we should invite - please add anyone you can think of here. An RSVP will be sent out to our members soon.
Meeting finished at 6.15pm
Minutes ISLN meeting 21st November 2016
Venue: Singapore American School (Middle School Library)
40 Woodlands Street 41
Singapore 738547
Next Meeting:
Feb 28, Tuesday: ISS Preston
Present
Kate Brundage, Ali Cuthbert, Rosa Shin-Gay, (hosts) Katie Day, Barb Reid, Ben Farr, Sarah Mounsey, Jane Hayes, Elaine Fong, Pam Males, Johanna Krijnsen, Ranita Smart, Marina Kalkum, Celeste Fisher, Kurt Wittig, , Helen Robinson, Graham Grant, Ryan Dempsey, Pat Chandler, Jacqui Makselon, Raquel Potaka, Yvonne Barrett, Meg Johnson, Mrs Starker, Ron Starker, Brian
Susan MacIntosh, Eva Kandelaars (Switzerland)
Apologies
Linda Twitchett, Christina Simpson, Soo Chin, Karen Chin, Kim Klein, Jill Gammon, Nadine Bailey,
Monica Picard, Melissa Cooper, Susanne Clower, Lisa Miller, Jenna Emerson
Meeting commenced 5:05pm
Acceptance of minutes from September meeting
Moved: Barb Reid
Seconded: Pam Males
Passed: Unanimously
Introductions - New members and guest
Eva Kandelaars (Switzerland)
Raquel Potaka (AIS)
Farewells
Yvonne Barrett
President’s welcome
PD that has happened since the last meeting
- Destiny Workshop
- Dulwich Librarians Network meeting
- Myra Bascal from NIE - very positive feedback.
Katie asks Ben can we share the pdf? Jacqui says can share not post. The link to PDF will be emailed to those requesting it. Please contact bre@uwcsea.edu.sg
NIE is offering a 24 hours course for $1200. Elaine asks - Can the Network offer this as PD? ISLN will look into how we can have more / different PD from Myra.
- Chin Ee Low - researcher is making connections with ISLN. Katie will report on this next meeting
- Job Alike Workshop at UWCSEA had 56 attendees. SAS hosting 2017. ISKL JAW. The plan for the day is here. ISLN will offer $200 per school for their staff to attend. Please email kda@uwcsea.edu.sg. ISLN encourages job shadowing for our staff. Contact individual schools to arrange. Here is a spreadsheet with the features each library has - members can fill in their details.
- LKSW - sign up to do a presentation, consider registering library staff & teachers for the pre-conference.
Please let Barb or katie know if you can offer a homestay. Social events open to ISLN even if not attending. Library tours please let us know.
Other PD - Please consider submitting a blog post for the ISLN Blog.
Meg attended AIS - Women in leadership conference. Friday / Saturday. Meg to let us know when the next one is on
Social at Brewerkz this Thursday - Sign up here
Reminder of the benefits of membership
- JAW & subsidy for people wanting to go to KL
- Wheelers consortium - all details on the blog
- LKSW
Barb says we need to add to the minutes that the status quo for the bank account should remain. The Constitution states:
We do not want to have the Vice-President signing and believe that we do not need to have all four committee officers signing
Motion - It is moved that the following signing arrangements are made for the DBS Bank account for ISLN - The Treasurer and either the President or the Secretary can sign cheques and other bank paperwork. This will reflect the officers elected at the AGM on 28/04/2016
Moved: B. Reid
Seconded: Ali
Result: Unanimous
About $35,000 in the bank
Committee reports
Red Dot committee - Katie Day, UWCSEA East
NEXT GET-TOGETHER - Tuesday, November 29th, American Club, 5:30pm onwards -- (Contact Katie for more info)
Readers Cup - Readers Cup will not take place this year. Lisa Miller, CIS Lakeside was absent but the committee will be meeting to discuss a variety of options. International ? books, HK quiz , online quizzes, Children’s Lit Quiz
Charity Committee - Barb Reid, UWCSEA East apologises for the Charity Committee being unable to find time to organise allocating funds, but all members have too many other commitments - Ben Farr & Sarah Mounsey have offered to take over the committee
Sharing session - what all appreciate at the moment.
Jo - New school - designing 3 libraries. Have an IT helpdesk in library. Using Aurasma & Blippar
Celeste - Harry Baker & Antinuke - great visits.
James - Republic Polytech sending interns to work in Makerspace at SAS
Elaine - heard Yvonne talk about gamification, Nadine on mother-tongue. UWCSEA PD on authentic questioning John Zola worksheets online. Re-thinking Literacy is coming again.
Jacqui - School focus mindfulness & Head appreciation of library staff - he gave all staff a cafe token. Such a nice token.
Sarah - Dulwich librarians conference - UWCSEA & TTS hosted guests. DL have decide to have book award to tie in with National NF month. They would like information about Parents Association’s that fund author visits. Please contact the Dulwich librarians.
Ben - would like an adult bookclub.
Katie - Discussed the UWCSEA ⅔ grown up bookclub looking at books for G2 & 3 followed by an adult bookclub. Well supported by teachers
Kate - SAS had Sonny Liew. He came for their Parent bookclub. Katie has asked Kate to write a blogpost because he is Red Dot author.
Kurt - Organises a PD bookclub - gives teachers a free lunch & free book
Barb - says that UWCSEA has subscribed to Kanopy and urges others to get a trial
Elaine - subscribes to The Day - and found it went to inappropriate Buzz Feed links.
From Nadine - Is anyone considering this PD? http://www.artmuseums.com/graphicdesign.htm
Brian - Middle School had valuable training in inquiry process & asking questions
Remember Next Meeting:
Feb 28, Tuesday: ISS
Finish 6.30pm
ISLN meeting 21st September 2016 (4:30pm)
Venue: Canadian International School (Tanjong Katong) map here
371 Tanjong Katong Road
Singapore 437128
Attendees
Nadine Bailey (host) Katie Day, Barb Reid (Philip), Susanne Clower, Ben Farr, Pam Males, Meg Johnson, Yvonne Barrett, Sarah Mounsey, Chris Simpson, Soo Chin, Graham Grant, Lisa Miller, Mel Cooper, Jane Hayes, Pat Chandler, Celeste Fisher, Jenna Emerson, Celeste Fisher, Ryan Dempsey, Kim Klein, Susan Mackintosh
Late arrivals (4:55pm)
Kate Brundage, Rosa Shin-Gay
Apologies
Linda Twitchett, Monica Picard, Jill Gammon, Ali Cuthbert, Elaine Fong, Johanna Krijnsen, Ranita Smart, Marina Kalkum, Kurt Wittig
Meeting commenced at 4:30pm
Acceptance of minutes from April meeting Moved by Nadine Bailey Seconded by Jacqui Makselon
President’s welcome - Katie Day
Please access the Who We Are doc and update your details
Welcome to new people
Jane Hayes - Dulwich
Sarah Mounsey - Dulwich
Susan Mackintosh - Nexus
Mel Cooper - CIS Lakeside
Guest : Tim Studlo - DLC from CIS TK (left at 5pm)
If you go to the Blog you will see “How to join the google group”. If you join the group you will get all the emails.
Treasurer's report - Ranita was absent so Barb read the financial report
Closing balance at the end of June = $34462.92
Reminders given re-outstanding membership fees, Readers Cup & Red Dot invoices
Committee reports
Red Dot committee - Katie Day, UWC East
Readers Cup - Barbara Reid (Philip), UWC East - people asked to read report for discussion later
Charity Committee - Elaine Fong was absent, but Nadine said that APS is interested in receiving donated books. Celeste said that the Gurkha School is also interested
Katie reminded people about:
- Library Officers JAW website and urged them to encourage their staff to sign up asap
- ISLN Breakfast organised by Elaine - Date: Oct 29 Saturday Time: 9am
Venue: Pacamara Boutique Coffee Roasters - 185 Upper Thomson Road Singapore 574333
Website: http://pacamara.sg/#home
Photos: https://www.yelp.com.sg/biz_photos/pacamara-boutique-coffee-roasters-singapore
and
- Dulwich Librarians are holding their own conference - Pat is organising - Thursday 3 November
Then also on 3 November they will tour TTS libraries and attend the TTS lecture & social
- TTS lecture & social at 4:30 in Senior Library - Ben organising
Dr. Myra Garces-Bacsal will be leading a free talk on Multicultural Literature . ISLN memebers are invited to attend. Register your interest here
- LKSW & PreConference - February 15-18 - Diversity & Integration -- Speakers are Brad Tyrell and Dianne McKenzie. We will be asking schools to allow delegates to tour their libraries and will be organising tours of other than school libraries
- AFCC Call for papers - 17-12 May 2017 - Theme - The Growing Years: Growing & becoming literate today
- James Mayhew - Visiting TTS in May - has a week available for other schools starting 28th May - Contact Ben
BREAK
5:08 pm Nadine Bailey presented on - Reluctant readers and social reading
Readers Cup vote on to continue or not - Please read the report from the RC Committee to enable us to discuss this
We discussed the Readers Cup feedback and then Barb moved:
That we suspend Readers Cup this academic year and reconsider resuming next academic year.
Seconded by Kim Klein
Vote: For 8 Against 4 - Motion passed
A committee was formed to discuss what we can do to promote reading until the Readers Cup is revamped
Nadine, Lisa, Mel, Rosa, Kate B, Susan are on the committee and will look into how to move forward this year
UWCSEA, AIS & SAIS are forming a Wheelers Consortium and invite others to join. We currently have around 1600 titles. Katie & Barb are trying to see if Wheelers will give ISLN a free platform.
Here at the two Collection ePlatform Plans which enable consortiums in 2016 - https://eplatform.co/sg/pricing/school-library-pricing/ ** Please note ePlatform One is not available in Singapore **
A Standard Collection Plan. The annual cost is $1500 NZD payable via credit card or direct deposit into our NZ bank account. They are agreeing to a $1500 content credit, which is basically a 1500 prepay option. Once they reach that figure in spend, then it rolls out to a pay as you go model. If the Schools finance team don’t like paying in NZD each month, then this is the better option to go for. It really just come down to what will work best for them.
The alternative option is a Gap Year Collection Plan. The annual cost is $375 NZD payable via credit card or direct deposit into our NZ bank account. Should they purchase books privately at any point, an invoice will be raised and payment is due on the following 20th of the month. They simply pay for the ePlatform upfront and then pay as go for titles there after.
PD round up
Opportunity was given to identify PD attended since last meeting so that people can approach you at the break to discuss. Katie asked that people consider submitting a blog post for the ISLN Blog. Thank you to Soo Chin for her contribution.
LAS PD Visit - Soo Chin
LFT2016 - Barb Reid (Philip)
Prague - Katie Day
ALA - Kim Klein
Sydney Writers - Ben & Celeste
Kath Murdoch - Kate Brundage, Rosa Shin-Gay
Helen doing online PYP Course
Julia Donaldson - won’t do school visits but will be at KidsFest
February 2018 ECIS Library Conference in India - sign up now
Other business
Membership / Annual fees - due April - membership gives discount to PD
5:30 Break
5:40 Sharing session
Celeste - Read Number the Stars: Lois Lowry - positive book on WWII
Yvonne - Has been getting students to make screen recordings of their search process - to see what they are looking at - work in groups 2-3. It works well
Ben -Book Don’t Worry Spratly - Helen Sampson Tanglin Teacher
Cassandra Wye (Storyteller) - is visiting TTS and is highly recommended
Celeste - Atinuke coming to TTS - ISLN members welcome to attend 7-11 November email Celeste to arrange a time
Nadine - Dr Willi Smits coming to CIS on Monday 26th September 9:50-10:30
Finish 6pm
Useful links
If you are not receiving the ISLN emails, please join our google group. Contact Katie Day to be added; her email is kda@uwcsea.edu.sg
Participation in the google group is welcomed from all members, irrespective of free/premium membership.
Also, remember you can get information about our network at our blog. And do consider submitting a blog post to share with others.
“Who we are” document - bit.ly/islnmembers -- it would be great if everyone could fill this in -- this is irrespective of free/premium membership
Reminder for each premium (paid) member school to fill in details of nominated people (to receive premium benefits) -- see current paid-up member schools -- list
*Please note that we are using this information to distribute information to paid members; if you don’t fill this in you won’t get this information!
Project links
Details of the ongoing projects have been sent out before the meeting. You can access them at any time as they are on a shared google drive -- via these links.
Charity committee - Elaine Fong, Chatsworth Orchard Campus
Copyright committee - Susanne Clower, UWC East
Paid members have been sent the copyright document we received from the law firm and a doc with the attempt to summarize that document in non-legalese language. Please contact Susanne if you have not received this. bre@uwcsea.edu.sg
28 April 2016
Ordinary meeting commenced at 5:30pm
(with new officers in place;)
Venue: Hwa Chong International School
663 Bukit Timah Road
Singapore, 269783
Katie Day - Chair
Barb Reid (Philip) - Minutes
Acceptance of minutes from February meeting
Moved by Linda Twitchett , seconded by Yvonne Barrett
Present
As per AGM attendance below - except Jacqui Makselon who apologised after AGM
Apologies & Farewells
Apologies: Ben Farr and Celeste Fisher, Tanglin Trust School; Christina Simpson, EtonHouse; Rosa Shin-Gay & Alison Cuthbert, Singapore American School; Shaun Russell and Monica Pickard, Nexus; Lisa Miller, CIS; Kurt Wittig, UWCSEA - Dover: Suzanne Clower, UWCSEA - East
Farewells: Danielle retiring this year, Laura Taylor leaving Dulwich, Philip Moon leaving Overseas Family School; Shaun Russell leaving Nexus;
New members attending: NPS School Anjali Kaul, Nirali Parikh, Kanchan Ramachandran, Sanyukta Bandopadmaya
Committee reports
Red Dot committee - Katie Day, UWC East
Elaine Fong asked could the committee ensure that NLB has 10 copies of the chosen books.
Barb Reid (Philip) is concerned that it might stop the international flavour
Yvonne Barrett suggested that ISLN could purchase books for loan to schools, then donate them to charity.
Katie outlined voting procedure.
Readers Cup - Kate Brundage, SAS and Barbara Reid (Philip), UWC East
Charity Committee - Elaine Fong - Report Here
Please make suggestions for local charities to Nadine
Boxes for Doreen are needed by August - Sign up here
Katie shared the Library Officers JAW website and urged people to sign up
Business ended at 5:50
SHARING SESSION
Katie - talked about AFCC2016
Barb - talked about QR Codes to email and Padlet in LibGuide and Kevin Hennah’s visit and Destiny Homepage
Soo Chin - Talked Words Go Round author Sarah J Maas visit which was successful. Katie cautions that not all of her books are suitable for kids. Jo said that she interacted well with students.
Linda - Atia Abawi - Secrets in the Sky (last year AJ Betts - also good)
Elaine - Brandon Mull also great. Katie Van Camp also good
Yvonne taking sketch-noting with kids - Elaine will share presentation of lesson she has taken on sketch-noting
Kate - Carin Berger author visit shared video
Pat - organising Dulwich Librarians Conference in November
Katie - met Karl from Follett in Beijing who suggested that Follett wiil interface with Overdrive soon.
Jenna - Will find out about Overdrive. Follett has merged with Baker & Taylor . Representing The Day - Newspaper
Elaine - took Academic Integrity and Extended Essay online courses - both were good - from FutureLearn.com . Edex is another online course provider.
Meeting ended 6:10pm
Useful links
If you are not receiving the ISLN emails, please join our google group. Contact Katie Day to be added; her email is kda@uwcsea.edu.sg
Participation in the google group is welcomed from all members, irrespective of free/premium membership.
Also, remember you can get information about our network at our blog. And do consider submitting a blog post to share with others.
“Who we are” document - bit.ly/islnmembers -- it would be great if everyone could fill this in -- this is irrespective of free/premium membership
Reminder for each premium (paid) member school to fill in details of nominated people (to receive premium benefits) -- see current paid-up member schools -- list
*Please note that we are using this information to distribute information to paid members; if you don’t fill this in you won’t get this information!
Project links
Details of the ongoing projects have been sent out before the meeting. You can access them at any time as they are on a shared google drive -- via these links.
Charity committee - Elaine Fong, Chatsworth Orchard Campus
Copyright committee - Susanne Clower, UWC East
Paid members have been sent the copyright document we received from the law firm and a doc with the attempt to summarize that document in non-legalese language. Please contact Susanne if you have not received this. susanneuwc@uwcsea.edu.sg
Annual General Meeting - Thursday, 28 April, 2016
ISLN Annual General Meeting
Meeting commenced at 4:40pm
Members present are highlighted in yellow
54 Members have voting rights - 14 members required for quorum.
Roll Call of Members eligible to vote.
Australian International School | Linda Twitchett Meg Johnson - A Yvonne Barrett Jennifer Kennedy - A Raquel Potaka - A |
Canadian International School, Lakeside | Lisa Miller - A |
Canadian International School, Tanjong Katong | Nadine Bailey |
Chatsworth International School | Elaine Fong Helen Robinson |
Dulwich College Singapore | Laura Taylor - A Patricia Chandler |
Etonhouse International School, Broadrick | Christina Simpson - A |
German European School | Ranita Smart Jo Krijnsen Marina Kalkum |
Hwa Chong International School | Karen Chin Avril Teh |
International Community School | Marjorie Kennedy |
International School of Singapore | Graham Grant Susan Grant Siti Munirah |
Lycee Francais de Singapore | Danièle Weiler - A |
Nexus International School | Shaun Russell (Proxy received)- A |
Overseas Family School | Winny Lam |
St. Joseph’s Institution, International | Yvonne Krishnan |
School of the Arts | Soo Chin |
Singapore American School | Alison Cuthbert - A |
Stamford American International School | Kim Klein Jill Gammon |
Tanglin Trust School | Ben Farr (absent) |
UWCSEA Dover | Pam Males Kurt Wittig -A Mathew Nathan - A |
UWCSEA East | Katie Day Barb Reid (Philip) Susanne Clower - A |
Jenna Emerson, 4 x NPS Staff
Acceptance of minutes from 2015 AGM
Moved by Jacqui Makselon, seconded by Elaine Fong
President’s report (Katie Day)
Link to report here
Treasurer’s report (Ranita Smart)
The report is available to paid members on request. Please email librarynetwork@gmail.com
Election of office bearers
Nominations are:
President: Katherine B. Day (Katie)
Vice-President: Benjamin Farr (Ben)
Treasurer: Ranita Smart
Secretary: Barb Reid (Barbara Philip)
Liaison: Kate Brundage
Webmaster: Lisa Miller
There were no further nominations.
Move to accept the committee nominations as the new committee
Moved: Katie Day Seconded: Barb Reid (Philip)
Unanimous vote for the committee as nominated
Auditors appointed for 2 year term
Nadine Bailey
Jo Krijnsen
Meeting closed 5:20pm