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TL11.4FALL2004_singles 36 Ontario School Library Association One of the won-derful thingsabout being a teacher-librarian is becoming a member of a world-wide school library com- munity. School Library World is a new column, intended to keep you in touch with that world by bringing you news about associa- tions, conferences, awards, and other matters of interest. A New National School Library Association At the CLA conference in Victoria last June, the Canadian Association for School Libraries (CASL) was created when the members of CSLA and ATLC voted to coordinate their efforts in order to advocate for school library programs and teacher-librarianship in Canada. CASL will now be your national voice for school libraries and will work in cooperation with provincial and territorial school library associations to raise aware- ness of the importance of school library programs in the education of the children and youth across Canada. Ongoing projects of CASL will include continuing School Libraries in Canada Online at www.schoollibraries.ca and issuing Impact (the CASL newsletter), promoting national school library stan- dards through distribution of Achieving Information Literacy: Standards for School Library Programs in Canada, operating the School Library Information Portal (SLIP) at www.cla.ca/slip/english and Le portail d'information sur les bibliothèques scolaires (PIBS) at www.cla.ca/pibs, promoting National School Library Day (fourth Monday in October) at www.nsld.ca, and holding annual confer- ences in conjunction with the Canadian Library Association and with provincial and terri- S c h o o l li b r a r y w o r ld b y B re nd a D illo n T L torial associations. For further information on the new association, visit www.caslibraries.ca or www.cla.ca. News from the International Association of School Librarianship The 33rd annual IASL confer- ence was held June 17-20, 2004, in Ireland, and was attended by over 400 dele- gates from 38 countries, who considered the theme: "From Aesop to e-book: the story goes on …" A number of awards were pre- sented, including the ProQuest SIRS Commendation Award which was presented to CSLA & ATLC jointly for the 2004 publication of "Achieving Information Literacy: Standards for School Library Programs in Canada." The annual Proceedings docu- ment contains 29 papers pre- sented at the 2004 confer- ence. They are an excellent source for practical ideas and applied research. Copies are still available for purchase. The following might be of par- ticular interest: ◆◆ Valerie Coghlan (Ireland) "Pictures, Books and Pedagogy" in which she explained the role of pic- ture books in raising stan- dards of visual awareness and discussed techniques for integrating appropriate titles into the curriculum in primary and middle schools.