Conference Report: International Association of School Librarianship's 47th Annual Conference, Istanbul, Turkey

Conferences are fun to attend because you are exposed to librarians that work in very different environments from yours. No other such event can claim to be "global" as much as the annual conference held by the International Association of School Librarianship, IASL for short. Every year a new committee hosts this conference in a different country. This is done through bidding for hosting, and the last event was held in Long Beach, CA. This year, the Turkish Ministry of Education alongside IASL's regional director Ayse Yuksel-Durukan and her team put together a culturally and professionally rich conference. One of the highlights of the conferences is that attendees are asked to donate a book from their countries, preferably about it and in their language. These books are donated to the hosting country's school library of choice.