Tuesday, July 18, 2023

[In progress]

08:00 am - 06:00 pm Registration Open

09:00 am - 10:30 am (Aula Magna)

IASL Conference Opening Session and Keynote 

chaired by Luisa Marquardt (Roma Tre University)

Welcome address  by: [in progress]

Jennifer Branch-Mueller, President of IASL

Br. Armin Luistro, Generalate of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

Br. George van Grieken, Director of Lasallian Research and Resources Service (LRRS)

Laura Ballestra, President of AIB

Simonetta Buttò, Director of ICCU

Amalia Maria Amendola, Officer of CEPELL 

Licia Cianfriglia, Vicepresident of ANP (Italian School Principals' Association)

Maurizio Caminito, Forum del Libro

Donatella Lombello, AsPeI

Fabio Capolei, Regione Lazio

Keynote: Gino Roncaglia, Professor of Digital Humanities, Roma Tre University: School libraries and new reading practices

Lightning Talk: Silvia Canavesio, Regional Sales Manager EBSCO - Academic & Government:  High quality searching tools and content for tomorrow’s professionals

IASL Awards Winners Proclamation

Flags Ceremony

10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am - 01:00 pm Concurrent Sessions

11.00-12.00 Concurrent 

Workshop (Lasallian Library) Johanna Schooley - Sliming the Library into Student Learning


Professional (Aula Magna) Flavia Massara - Erasmus+ projects in libraries:  ADELE & BIBLIO projects

Professional (Aula Magna) Piero Attanasio - Lessons learned from the Italian publishers’ initiative to support school libraries


Professional (Room Audiovisivi) Ching Chi Sum & Kwok Hei Wong - “Face to face” & “Face to screen” Synchronized Inclusion Reading Promotion

Professional (Room Audiovisivi) Jane Hayes - School Libraries Supporting Wellbeing Through the Use of Bibliotherapy


Research (Room 6 Centro Formazione) Kasey Garrison - Understanding the World: How Australian Teacher Librarians Define Information Literacy

Research (Room 6 Centro Formazione) Monique Shepard & Kasey Garrison - “It was a real eye-opener”


Research (Room Arrambide) Gordana Banjamin - A small step for the librarian


12:00-01:00 pm - Concurrent sessions

Workshop (Room 33) Jo Hackl - Engaging All the Sense & Creating Cross-Curricular Projects


Professional (Aula Magna) Caterina Spezzano & Laura Pazienti - National Education & Training Programme on School Libraries in Italy

Professional (Aula Magna) Bruno Cavallarin - Professional profile of the school librarian for Italy


Professional (Room Audiovisivi) Man Hi Helen Chan - Catering Reading-to-Learn Differences @Reading 2.0 Era

Professional (Room Audiovisivi) Prasanna Ranaweera & LHW Wjira Ranjika Silva - Challenges faced by Sri Lankan School Libraries…


Research (Room Arrambide) Judy Henning & Sherry Crow - Exploring the Reading Habits and Characteristics of High School Students

01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch (“La Salle” Restaurant)

02:00 pm - 04:00 pm Concurrent Sessions

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm Concurrent

Workshop (Room 33) Jo Hackl - Connecting Students with Fictional Characters' Natural World


Professional (Aula Magna) Marialucia Mongelli & Vito Bruno -Turning Limitations into Opportunities: ARPA Puglia's Little Environmental Library

Professional (Aula Magna) Carlotta Benedetti - "Once upon a time..." A public history workshop on Illustrated Literature for Children


Professional (Rooma Audiovisivi) Mirjana Radovanovic Pejovic & Ana Dukovic - Cooperation & Partnership of School & Public Libraries


Research (Room 6 Centro Formazione) Melissa Johnston - Enacting Leadership

Research (Room 6 Centro Formazione) Jennifer Branch-Mueller - Flourishing School Library Faculty Members


Research (Room Arrambide) Idunn Bøyum - Collaboration between School Librarians, Teachers

Research (Room Arrambide) Maureen Thompson & Kishma Simpson; Natoyna Garwood; Lorraine McLean - The Power of Public and School Library Collaboration



03:00 pm - 04:00 pm Concurrent

Workshop (Room 33) Sayera Tairova - Embracing diversity of your community through your unique library collections


Professional (Aula Magna) Anna Cascone - Lasallian Photographic Archives &  Public History Practices…

Professional (Aula Magna) Daniela Di Pinto - Ecclesiastical archives: Sources for History, History of Sources


Professional (Room Audiovisivi) Gwendolyn Nixon & Jamie Naidoo; Stephen Yates - School Librarian as Changemaker in Implementing the UN Agenda

Professional (Room Audiovisivi) Kasey Garrison & Lee FitzGerald; Alinda Sheerman - Failure to Flourish: Students and Teacher Librarians in Australia


Research (Room 6 Centro Formazione) Melissa Johnston & Lucy Santos Green - Online Ready


Research (Room Arrambide) Jennifer Moore & Sarah Evan; Barbara Schultz-Jones - From Book Talks to BookTok

04:00 pm - 04:30 pm Coffee Break

04:30 pm - 06:00 SIGs Special Interest Groups - Research Panel, SIG meeting and SLW Board Update, plus follow-up Book Construction Workshop

Special Interest Group - Research Panel (Room 6 Centro Formazione)

School-Based Research Panel Discussion - Melissa Johnston & Jennifer Moore (USA), followed by the SLW Board Update


Special Interest Group - Children and Young Adult Literature (Room Arrambide)

Rose Brock - BYOBF: Build Your Own Book Festival and Author Centered Events

04:30 pm - 06:00 pm 

Workshop#1 - Book Construction (Aula 33) - 2nd part (collation and cover) - Group 1 & Group 2 - Beatrice Eleuteri

07:00 pm - 08:30 pm IASL Opening Ceremony  with"apericena" (snacks and drinks), at Casa La Salle Gardens and Restaurant, sponsored by MAKROS, “The smart way of Preservation”  (Registration mandatory)

09:00 pm - 10:30 pm Organ Concert (St. John-Baptist de La Salle's Sanctuary Chapel, Conference Venue) perfomed by  the Pontifical Organist M.° Gianluca Libertucci (at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, from 1991 to present). 

M.° Libertucci is one of Italy's foremost organists, with high profile positions such as the organist of the Vicariate of the Vatican City in St. Peter's Basilica, Pontifical Swiss Guard, General Audience of the Holy Father, and of the Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere Orto, Rome. He is also Professor of "organ and organ composition" at the Conservatory of Music "Benedetto Marcello" of Venice. He holds a diploma in Organ and Composition at the Conservatory of Music "Santa Cecilia" in Rome under the leadership of Louis Celeghin. He followed courses in organ held by Michael Radulescu, Christopher Stembridge (at the Music Academy Chigi of Siena) and Ludger Lohmann.