wasla 2015 calendar · 1 – 31 august ms readathon, one month challenge 9 august national book...
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WASLA 2015 Calendar
WASLA 2015: Celebrations, display ideas, events.
E-waste: Chris Jordan cell phones Atlanta 2005
A short course in Human Relations
Ø The six most important words - I admit I made a mistake.
Ø The five most important words - You did a good job.
Ø The four most important words - What is your opinion.
Ø The three most important words - If you please.
Ø The two most important words - Thank you.
Ø The one most important word – WE
Ø The least important word - I
So where do you go to find a researcher who is: • intelligent; • imaginative; • skilled in the use of computers; • devoted to discovering the truth; and knowledgeable about science, technology, history, and literature, and who usually works for dirt and gets credit for nothing? After lunch, I drove to the library.
Date Event 1 – 31 August MS Readathon, one month challenge
9 August National Book Lovers Day International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, UNESCO
12 August International Youth Day, United Nations World Elephant Day
13 August Left-Handers Day
14 August World Lizard Day
15 – 23 August National Science Week
16 August Tell a Joke Day
18 August Bad Poetry Day Cupcake Day – RSPCA Vietnam Veterans Day
19 August World Humanitarian Day International Orangutan Day
22 – 28 August Children’s Book Week – Theme: Books light up our world
24 - 30 August Keep Australian Beautiful Week
25 August Big Cake Bake – Red Cross
28 August Daffodil Day (Cancer day – wear yellow) International Friendship Day
Pintrest
Harper Lee - Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Jennie Jerome Churchill - Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Nigerian proverb - Hold a true friend with both hands.
Date Event 1 Sept. Wattle Day- celebrating the Australian spirit
1 – 6 Sept. Superhero Day – Muscular Dystrophy Australia
1 – 7 Sept. National Asthma Week, Asthma Foundation Victoria Legacy Week - Legacy is dedicated to caring for the families of veterans
1 – 8 Sept. Adult Learners Week
1 – 16 Sept. Night Stalk – Perth Zoo
1 – 30 Sept. Save the Koala month Biodiverisiy month, Dept. of the Environment
3 Sept. National Flag Day Indigenous Literacy Day
5 Sept. International Day of Charity, United Nations
6 Sept. Father’s Day
7 Sept. Threatened Species Day , Dept. of the Environment
7 – 11 Sept Kids Teaching Kids week
8 Sept. International Literacy Day, United Nations
11 Sept. R U OK? Day
15 Sept. International Day of Democracy, United Nations
16 Sept. International Day for the Preservation of the OZONE Layer, United Nations International Talk Like a Pirate Day
17 Sept. Australian Citizenship Day
25 Sept. Term 3 ends
John Dewey - If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.
Date Event 26 Sept – 25 Oct.
2015 practical WACE examinations
12 Oct. Term 4 begins
1 – 31 Oct Pink Ribbon International Breast Cancer Awareness month Dogtober, Assistance Dogs Australia Walktober, Physical Activity Australia Inc. Community Safety Month Buy Nothing New month National Safe Work Australia month
2 Oct. International Day of Non-violence, United Nations World Smile Day
3 Oct. World Animal Day
3 – 10 Oct Fire Prevention Week, National Fire Prevention Association World Space Week, United Nations
5 Oct. World Teachers Day
6 Oct. Mad Hatter Day
10 Oct. World Homeless Day
11 Oct. International Day of the Girl Child, United Nations
11 – 17 Oct. Anti Poverty Week National Nutrition Week, Nutrition Australia
15 Oct. Global Handwashing Day
16 Oct. World Food Day, United Nations
19 - 25 Oct. National Water Week, Australian Water Association
Professor Dumbledore - It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.
Mahatma Gandhi - We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
There are no failures, only missed opportunities ...
Norman Cousins - A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Date Event 21 Oct. National Kidsafe Day
24 Oct. World Polio Day, Rotary Club One Dollar Day, Save the Children Fund United Nations Day, United Nations World Development Information Day, United nations
24 – 30 Oct. Disarmament Week, United Nations
24 Oct. – 1 Nov. Children’s Week
25 Oct. National Day of Unity, United Nations
27 Oct. World Day for audiovisual Heritage, United Nation, a reminder to preserve our visual and audio documents that have become the primary records of the 20th and 21st centuries.
28 Oct. Pink Ribbon Day, The Cancer Council
30 Oct. Day for Daniel, Daniel Morcombe Foundation, child safety, protection and harm prevention.
31 Oct. Hallowe’en National Bandanna Day, Canteen, Kids living with cancer
Lauren Manning, Yale’s rare book and manuscript library
Pete Hamill - What libraries give you are all three tenses, the past tense, the present tense in which we live, and the
future that we can only imagine.
Date Event 1 – 30 Nov. Movember
National Novel Writing Month Asbestos Awareness Month
1 – 7 Nov. National Others Week
2 – 27 Nov. Written WACE exainations
6 Nov. Walk to Work Day
7 Nov. National Sunnies Day, QLS Eye Institute
8 – 14 Nov. Australian Food Safety Week
9 – 15 Nov. National Recycling Week, Planet Ark 10 – 16 Nov. International Week of Science and Peace, United Nations
11 Nov. Remembrance Day
11 Nov. WASLA AGM, Duncraig SHS
13 Nov. World Kindness Day
16 Nov. International Day for Tolerance, United Nations Chocolate Covered Anything Day
20 Nov. Universal Children’s Day, United Nations Go Home on Time Day
21 Nov. Human Walking Program World Television Day, United Nations
23 – 29 Nov. Social Inclusion Week
NASA - Volcano from space Nature is truly awesome!
Date Event 25 Nov. White Ribbon Day
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, United Nations
28 Nov. WASLA TL and Lib Tech/Library Officer of the Year Award Dinner 30 Nov. International Computer Security Day 1 Dec. World AIDS Day
1 – 31 Dec No Gender December
2 Dec. International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 3 Dec. International Day of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations 7 – 13 Dec. Give Now Week 10 Dec. Human Rights Day, United Nations
10 – 23 Dec. Operation Santa
17 Dec. Term 4 ends