9th grader draws picture for the Facebook webpage "The voice of Greek library friends"

Our school library member Christos Selianitis has drawn a picture for the Facebook webpage
"The voice of Greek library friends".
Christos saves his work on the young creative artists   webpage
Deviant Art.

Enjoy!

9th Peristeri Junior High School Library OPAC on the internet

Joomla! enabled us to add our OPAC on the website of our school library.
http://9gym-perist.att.sch.gr/library/
[Click "OPAC" on the top menu.]
The OPAC contains all 6900 items of our collection [printed, audio & digitized material].
Special emphasis has been paid to user-friendliness, so that this valuable tool can be used easily by our young members [aged 12-15].
The user can search by title, author or folksonomy tag.
For Greek authors use Greek, for foreign authors use Latin characters [e.g ΚΑΖΑΝΤΖΑΚΗΣ, VERNE]
As soon as the student has found the item he needs, he can find it quite easily on its appropriate shelf, by using its DDC number.
For fiction, we use the following labels [instead of DDC numbers, which are used for non-fiction items]:
ΕΜ Greek Novels
ΞΜ Foreign Novels
ΕΠ Greek Poetry
ΞΠ Foreign Poetry
ΕΔ Greek Short stories
ΞΔ Foreign Short stories

If one chooses the advanced search [Σύνθετη αναζήτηση], he can eliminate the fields by clicking:
Συγγραφείς [authors]
Τίτλος     [title]
Περιγραφή  [folksonomy tag]
Εκδότης    [publisher]

So, we are the first Greek public [state] school library, which has its entire collection searchable through its OPAC.

Only free software/open source software was used for our OPAC:
OpenOffice Calc for the initial catalogue
Joomla! for uploading the catalogue on the website

The data base was written [and it's regularly updated] by the school library teacher Emmanuel Ninos
The computerese work [data migration] was done by computer science teacher Andreas Papakleovoulou.

Many thanks to [ΠΣΔ] Greek School Network for offering us space on its servers, for our website!
http://www.sch.gr/en/

e-Twinning and school libraries

 

IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY 

http://intheschoollibrary.blogspot.com/

is a useful means of expression for people who would like to learn about the e-twinning project and European school libraries in synergy.

I was very glad to find out  that our colleague Nadia Charalampopoulou,

 the teacher librarian at Tympaki, Crete/Greece,

is among the active members of the blog.

Three school libraries have been awarded the European Quality Label

I was delighted to learn from the official eTwinning website, yesterday,
http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/awards/quality_labels/schools_awarded_the_eql_oct10.htm
that 41 Greek public schools excelled this year too, taking the European Quality Label.
These schools are from all levels of education [kindergarten, elementary and secondary].
They are from all over Greece, and one of them even from the Greek community in Sydney, Australia!

Among them, three school libraries: Kavasila, Eleusis and Lianokladi.

Well done, dear colleagues!

Greek Libraries on mapme.com

Katerina Kerasta is the administrator of a new website which provides maps of all kinds of Greek libraries.

You can find public, academic , school, private, municipal and children's libraries.
Needless to say, I added mine as soon as I was invited.
[9th Junior High School Library by epninos]

It is quite interesting that the list is getting longer every day!

"A library in the backpack" a workshop in the Goethe Institute Library in Athens

On Friday, 27 November 2009, we were once again in the hospitable library of the Goethe Institute in Athens, for another well-organized event about what else: libraries, books and our students.
The workshop "A library in the backpack" was presented by Ulrike Buchman, professor of the German Literature department at the University of Hannover (Leibniz Universität Hannover).
After the introductory lecture , she presented various activities that can be conducted in a school library to promote reading. The slogan was
"Reading, just for the fun of it!"
Later on, five books were discussed:
Steinsuppe,
Fünfter sein,
Die Torte ist weg,
Gewitternacht &
Die Geschichte vom Löwen, der nicht schreiben konnte
and then it was the participants' turn to form small groups and express their own ideas on how to present these books to their student clubs at school.
The seminar did not look like «ex cathedra» teaching at all. On the contrary, it was very vivid and also the teacher librarians contributed their own comments and suggestions.
Professor Ulrike Buchmann, whose main research interest is psychology and teaching of reading & juvenile literature, spoke in German, but Sabine Sartzetaki, who teaches at the Ionian University, helped us with her excellent interpretation into Greek.

I would like to express my thanks to director Gerlinde Buck and librarian Christine Tzimis of the Goethe Institute Library
for the interesting event and the relaxed atmosphere that was provided.

Similar posts in Greek have also appeared in the following social network media of school libraries:
HELLENIC (GREEK) FORUM OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES
http://3gym-kerats.att.sch.gr/library/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3597 # 3597
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
http://greekschoolibs.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_28.html

Video: 10 years of school libraries in Greece

An anniversary movie celebrating the first 10 years of School Libraries in public schools in Greece.
It is the joint work of various school libraries from all over Greece.
In this short video you can see snapshots of the diverse work that has been done
the last few years of this new institution:
lessons using the rich materials of our collection and new technologies,
speeches by famous Greek authors, theatrical performances, cultural programs, user training
(information literacy), reading clubs, book fairs, and of course hundreds of loans,
since they are lending libraries for all the members of the school community.
All services provided by libraries in public schools are offered totally free.

Watch the video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekIgDFnlY1Q

[The presenter speaks in Greek, but there are also captions in English.]