Samoa Library Week 2011

From the 26th - 30th September 2011 Samoa held its 3rd ever National Library Week.  During the week events and activities were run to celebrate and promote literacy and reading in Samoa.  This year the theme was "Reading is your Pathway to Success" and many schools and people joined in with the book character, story and poetry writing and poster competitions held.  Library Week was launched with a parade through Apia town with 500-600 people joining in and then the opening ceremony at the EFKS hall in Mulinuu where the School Library Assistants performed a mania siva and the story of Little Red Riding hood was acted out by library staff from LDS Pesega.

Here is the banner from the Robert Louis Stevenson School

 This is the prize winning costume of the Very Hungry Caterpillar

 Here we all are parading through town past Carruthers store and the Apia town clocktower

On Tuesday the Library Association Committee members went to the Atua Farmer's District Library in Lepa for stories and activities and then on Wednesday it was over to the big island of Savaii for more parading and book character fun with approximately 300 participants.  Thursday saw the book launch of new children's book "Surviving a Tsunami : Dealing with Disaster" by Jackie Faasisila, Angela Jowitt and Walter Dudley and finally on Friday was more stories and activities in the Nelson Memorial Public Library before prizes were awarded for the story writing and poster competitions and librarians ended the week with a dinner.

Faafetai tele lava LAS Committee for a job well done and a very successful Library Week 2011.