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Fifteenth International Conference on Learning

The International Conference on Learning will by held at the University of Illinois, Chicago, June 3-6, 2008. The Conference is for any person with an interest in, and concern for, education at any level--from early childhood, to schools, to higher education--and lifelong learning in any of its sites--from home, to school, to university, to the workplace. The Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is March 13, 2008. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, can be found at http://www.LearningConference.com.

New Web Address for I-Share

Please update your links and bookmarks to the I-Share catalog (formerly called ILLINET Online; consortium catalog of 71 Illinois academic libraries), because it has a new address. The new address for I-Share is: https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uc/ (Note that it begins with https and not just http.)

Monarch Award 2009 Master List Released

The Monarch Award: Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award 2009 Master List has been released as follows. The award is sponsored by the Illinois School Library Media Association.

Author and Title

Butterworth, Chris, Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea
Crimi, Carolyn, Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies
Davies, Nicola, Surprising Sharks
Harrington, Janice, The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
Jurmain, Suzanne , George Did It
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie, Nora’s Ark
Knudsen, Michelle, Library Lion
McDonald, Megan , Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
McLeod, Bob, Superhero ABC
McKissack, Patricia, Precious and the Boo Hag
O’Malley, Kevin, Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude
Pennypacker, Sara, Clementine
Rosenthal, Amy Krouse, Cookies: Bite-size Life Lessons
Rylant, Cynthia, Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas
Schachner, Judith, Skippyjon Jones
Sierra, Judy, The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School
Stevens, Janet & Susan Stevens, The Great Fuzz Frenzy Crummel
Walker, Alice, There is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me
Willems, Mo, Today I Will Fly!
Wright, Betty Ren, The Blizzard

Visit the Monarch Web site to register and find resources: http://www.islma.org/monarch.htm.

Questions? Contact Pam Storm, Monarch Award Chair: pstorm@charleston.k12.il.us.