Recent articles: School libraries around the world; Gamification; Digital literacies; Inquiry approach; Fiction as information

Published online are Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship and the 23rd International Forum on Research in School Librarianship, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 21-25, 2019. They include some interesting articles relevant to information literacy. The home page is here: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/index
To pick out a few:
- Fiction as Information: A Look at Reading as Information Source by Mary Ann Harlan. This includes a literature review (looking at reading and information literacy) and a study of 16/17 year olds. (North America) The author concludes " ... that fiction as a form of art is a way to engage our emotions, to explore our world, a way to learn" https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7378
- Pedagogical centre: A way of empowering and transforming a school library by Therése Haglind, Emmelie Ernst, Ulrika Boström (Sweden) "This paper will present a process of development, successful in our school; a cooperation between Pedagogical centre, teachers and management" https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7369
- School library concepts developed by an inquiry-approach curriculum organization by User experiences and perceptions about the Ideal Libraries document of the International Baccalaureate by Anthony Tilke (Netherlands) https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7398
- Gamification in School Libraries by Dejan Šiptar (Croatia) https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7389
- Digital and information literacies and the school library: A case study by Yvonne L Barrett (Turkey) https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7384
- School Library Perspectives from Asia: Trends, Innovations and Challenges in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan by Chin Ee Loh, Annie Tam, Daisuke Okada (not about IL< but useful background) https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl/article/view/7258
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