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Give in to your imagination
Maltese must reads The Emergence of a Maltese Teacher Corps George Cassar,
Self Published
A poster by Ġorġ Mallia, exploding with colour and featuring fantasy figures leaping out of a book as a reader looks on, wideeyed with shocked awe, really defines the aphorism "Give in to your imagination – go to a library". The library has forever been the repository of all things fun and fruitful to be found in books. It is where you can let go of the reigns of your imagination and give in to that wonderful feeling of losing yourself in worlds created by some of the greatest authors. It is true that in this day and age of being able to carry a whole library of books on a single e-book or tablet, the old fascination with libraries seems to be dwindling somewhat, but libraries have grown to meet the challenge and become meeting places, in which activities related to all that books are and can be are held. What’s more, the very social nature of the place, in which one meets like-minded people who are book lovers too, and the atmosphere that so many books in one place can create are elements that no e-book can ever replace, very much in the same way that watching a movie on a Smartphone can never compete with the experience of watching it at the cinema. Giving in to your imagination and visiting a library move you and your mind in ways that very few other things do.
News from bookland Arts library The Malta Council for Culture and The Arts has embarked on a process of building an arts library that would house journals, periodicals, catalogues, books and miscellaneous publications related to all art forms.
This book does not look at the teachers’ drive towards their aspirations solely through a historical or chronological recounting of the stages leading to 1919. The teachers’ occupation is examined through an analysis of the conditions of work, the methods of recruitment, appointment and classification, teacher training and the development of salaries, all of which help the reader to develop a clearer picture of what teachers went through during their daily work within schools. It may also be surprising to note that certain problems concerning teachers evident in the past are still with us, to some extent or other, even today. The study also entails a detailed enquiry of 19th and early 20th century educational thought about the teachers’ role and duties in schools. It is revealing how adjourned Maltese thinkers were with regards to the scope and objectives of education in general and the function of the teacher in particular.
Times Picture Annual 2012 Darrin Zammit Lupi,
Allied Publications A pick of the best photos shot for The Times and The Sunday Times, taken by Jason Borg, Matthew Mirabelli, Chris Sant Fournier and Darren Zammit Lupi over the year between November 11, 2011 and November 10, 2012. It also carries a good selection of pictures taken by freelance, Reuters and AFP photographers. The picture annual, the seventh in the series published by Allied Publications, is a pictorial synopsis of life during the year.
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