Kim Beeman

For any librarians and teacher-librarians in European international schools (or beyond), please consider joining us at a new conference in March 2025 - inspired by Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop in Asia! isleconf.com The expression of interest form is live now.

Come work at a great, well-resourced school library with the BEST team.

It was so wonderful to be with some of my favorite people and talk about all things school libraries for a few days. I will miss LKSW!!

I presented about censorship in international school libraries again this weekend at Librarians Knowledge Sharing Workshop in Jakarta. Slides here: bit.ly/LKSWfreetoread

A library card is free.

The closing date for my (wonderful!) job is next Friday, 1 December. Come work with @librarianedge in a big, busy, incredibly (!) well-resourced secondary library at Tanglin Trust in Singapore! Happy to answer any questions about the job, the school, and life in Singapore.

@intlNadine @becinthelibrary I’m with Nadine on Yellow Face - and I loved Babel too!

@becinthelibrary Lessons in chemistry- didn’t like Yellow Face as much as Babel /Poppy Wars

Three books I’ve waited soooooooo long to get from the library. How am I supposed to choose which one to start with? #ReadingForPleasure

Early childhood educators! I'm looking for the best books you have read to the under 5s in the last three years. Any topic, any creator, must be available in English. #ECC #EarlyYears #prek #nursery #schoolLibraries #tlchat #intlchat #pypchat #foundation #reception

And I would be remiss if I didn't point out how amazing the international school library community in Singapore is!

It's a big, busy, well-resourced library. This position is orientated towards teaching: regular Middle School library lessons and lots of work with Sixth Form students on research and information literacy.

I am leaving my wonderful job as Head of Senior Library @TanglinTrust. The position has been posted on @tes and on the school website: tts.bigredsky.com/page.php?pageI… Please share! Feel free to contact me with any questions.

This was a relatively small sample (37 librarians) but it covered 21 different countries. I would love to hear from other international school librarians out there! I have left the survey open if you would like to participate: forms.gle/VfSw69MtJfgYDv…

Respondents reported that 85% of challenges were initiated by parents.

For a presentation at #L2L in Dubai last week, I surveyed international school librarians about the restrictions and regulations they face in their contexts. You can see the presentation here: docs.google.com/presentation/d…

I have heard from librarians in 21 countries so far - it would be great to hear from even more!

Last call if you would like to participate in my survey about book regulations, restrictions and challenges in international school libraries. I would love to hear from you - and will share my results here next week!