21. Facilities:
to support teaching
and learning
Comfortable seating for a range of tasks
Class or group bookings
Flexible study space
Laptops
Headphones
Floor sockets
Colour laser printer
Screen & projector
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27. Services:
to support teaching
and learning
Reading Development
Examples:
Reading Programme: Years 6-8 working with English
Department
Individual guidance
Using technology – Reading is Fun wiki
Extra-curricular activities
28. "Reading is to the mind what exercise
is to the body." Richard Steele
29. “There is a strong association between the
amount of reading for pleasure children
reported and their reading achievement.”
Twist, L., Schagen, I. and Hodgson, C. (2007). Readers and Reading: National
Report for England 2006. Slough: NFER
33. Services:
to support teaching
and learning
Information Literacy – Research & Study Skills
Examples:
Avoiding plagiarism
Citation and bibliography
Planning research
Locating and evaluating information
Individual guidance
Using technology – Research Guides using LibGuides
Materials available on Library Online
47. Some ideas
Make sure the Ask students to
Library has make resource lists
reference copies of (bibliographies) for
your textbooks all homework/
coursework – and
mark them!
Ask me to build a
Research Guide for
you to use in the Borrow a book or
Library, classroom artefact collection
or ICT room! from LSE
So here we are in October 2009, with a lovely refurbished library space. The stock is steadily improving and we have the facilities in terms of work-space and ICT that the staff and students deserve. So is my work now finished? Of course not – you all know that this is just the beginning! I now have to get the library used and continue the conversations that I started last year with the whole school community so that this library and librarian can have an impact on the school. We are a force for change and improvement – so watch this space!
I tried the usual formal things of asking Heads of Department to give me their Schemes of Work and lesson plans, or at the very least outlines and homework areas. So that I could begin to plan for re-stocking the library. As you would expect, this was as difficult as it seems to be in most schools and is still definitely a work in progress.Some departments responded very well. Modern Languages was a case in point. They were also interested in developing technologies – the HOD has his own blog. I was able to respond quickly to an expressed need for access to news headlines in different languages and so created the Netvibes page that you see here. This definitely made them begin to see me in a different light as they started to understand what a school librarian can actually do beyond their traditional idea!Other departments, such as History and English, gave me lists of requests during the year and I did my best to fulfil these where appropriate so that they could begin to see a real difference to the resources available to them through having a professional librarian.