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24. Workshop on Children’s
Literature 25. Libraries for Children and
Youth |
1. Among friends again
Mariam Ahmadi returned to her work of great dedication at Madaran-e- Emrooz (MAM). We wish
her continued good health.
Two meetings were held and
the following matters discussed:
- The development of small libraries;
- CBC Anniversary;
- need to review the reviewing criteria;
- ways to develop systematic relationships with NGO’s
and governmental organizations;
- ICBD Bookmark 2003;
- inclusion of recommended books in the Monthly
Newsletter;
- Need to draw new lending regulations for the
research library, and new members.
Three
meetings were held by the group to promote the Encyclopedia for Young People
(EYP) in different centers in
160
teachers attended the sessions. Parvin Fakharinia held the final workshop.
The group also met students at four primary and one middle school to introduce EYP.
Discussions
continued to make the final selection of prominent figures, who have played
lasting roles in the culture of
EYP
had its first meeting entitled “ Iranian Outlook in EYP”.
The second meeting will concentrate on structure of articles.
The biographical data sheet has been revised and colleagues are urged to complete the forms for the EYP files.
Several
organizations have donated valuable reference books to EYP. These will be
exhibited for all contributors.
The
group with the help of CBC research library continues the program of EYP
donations to deprived schools throughout the country.
Special
committee formed for this purpose, will undertake this program previously
organized by the executive committee.
The
main discussions of the EC are as follows:
- Annual book review; changing the form of the CBC
diploma; establishing a committee on the concept of peace;
- Recommendations to colleagues who wish to change their working groups; and meeting with the members of the “criticism” group.
This
group has created an information board to promote more interactive relations
with other CBC groups.
12. Illustration Reviewing
Group
The
group has taken up a new reviewing approach. The works reviewed, will be
presented to the jury for final decisions. The group coordinator is Mrs. Jamshidi. Participants at this meeting enjoyed the tape
by Quantin Blake after he got the Hans Christian
Andersen Award, 2002.
CBC is continuing to create great interest by teaching
children’s literature in different Education Districts, particularly in the
Second District where story telling, creative drama, poetry and games were
presented to teachers. The group coordinator is Mrs. Ashraf
Amini.
Mrs. M. Rai translated the
International Children’s Book Day (April 2nd) Message into
Persian. The motto “Books: The World in an Enchanted Network” and the poster
appear on the CBC Calendar – Bookmark. The host country for 2003 is
Rehabilitation Faculty held a one day seminar on the subject of pre-school education. Mrs. S. Ghezelayagh spoke on the role of games and the growth of cultural Identity. Mr. M. Naseri presented the report of the research group working on the selected bibliography for pre-school children. Ten Colleagues are participating in this ongoing research.
To celebrate CBC’ s
anniversary, ISNA inaugurated a site, which reflected various views on CBC’s different activities, through four decades.
Mrs. Z. Jahan donated two sets of Encyclopedia for
Young People together with other books to two hospitals where CBC offers
library services.
18. Libraries for Deprived
Areas
This Committee is establishing pilot libraries in
rural and peripheral areas, experimenting various
methods of creating constant relationship between quality books, readers and
CBC volunteers.
Colleagues were invited to see a documentary film on
Hushang Moradi Kermani. The producer of the film, Mr. Moradi, and Mr. Ramsari, the
publisher of this well known author also attended the viewing. CBC colleague,
Ali Mafakheri, presented a film of his two weeks
stay in
The recent issue ( Nos. 2
& 3, 2002 ) has been published. It covers the annual review of children’s
literature and the annotated bibliography for 2001. All members are invited
to procure this issue.
More than ten groups are involved in reviewing books
on a regular basis at the CBC. The Internal Bulletin ( Harfe Kitab ) will act as a communicative vehicle among the
groups. Eleven colleagues formed the editorial committee, with Hamed Noori as coordinator. The
first issue is to appear in winter 2003.
Vol. 9 of this quarterly was published recently.
Young CBC members do all the work and Mrs. A. Amini
helps as the coordinator.
One of the major tasks of the reviewing committees
is to identify and buy new books. 355 titles were bought during January 2003.
Mr. H. Noori coordinates the work of this
committee.
24. Workshop on Children’s
Literature
The seventeenth workshop started with 81
participants and ended after five months with 50. During 16 sessions, various
aspects of children’s literature were discussed. A more advanced course will
be held for those who will be joining the reviewing groups.
25. Libraries for Children and
Youth
In Jahan - e- Ketab, nos. 17 & 18, 2003, Mrs.S. Ghezelayagh
discussed the critical situation of these libraries and accused the Library
and
Nasrin Emad, chaired a round table with colleagues from the Ministry
of Education to discuss issues pertaining to research at primary and
secondary school level. The Association for Popularization of the Science
organized the session.
27. Harry Potter in Ketab -e- Hafte
The speech by CBC colleague, Shokouh Hajnasrollah, presented at the Harry Potter Seminar, was published in Ketab-e-Hafte no. 102.
In an interview with Ketab-e-Hafte,
no. 103, Arsineh Mardiroosian,
talked about her activities on the history of Armenian children’s literature
and CBC’s role in leading her into this area.
Several CBC colleagues were contributors of this
magazine (no. 100). They were interviewed on folklore, the history of
children’s literature and satire.
The next congress to be held in spring 2003 will
concentrate on cultural characteristics of different provinces of
The vol. 4 of the pre-school reference books series
was published in February 2003 by Center for Research on Pre-school Education
( Donya). CBC
congratulates colleagues on this important contribution.
Mohammad H. Mohammadi
published this important work in two vols. Nahad-e-Farsi
Amoozi-e- Chista has been
established to publish a series of texts to encourage the learning of Persian
in an innovating and interesting way.
The Association has started publishing an internal Bulletin. Two colleagues were actively involved in preparing the first issue, of January 2003.
Student members are invited to the first meeting entitled “Information Needs”. The Executive Committee hopes to establish more dynamic relationship with this group.
CBC shares the grief of two colleagues, Mrs. Iran Gorgin and Mr. Yahya Mafi.
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