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