1. The role of the
School Library
Comenius meeting
Caldas da Rainha
Jan 2014
2. THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY
SCHOOL COMUNITY RAFAEL BORDALO PINHEIRO
School office: Escola Secundária Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro
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3. School Library ESRBP
School Library Network
The Program School Library Network was lauched in 1996, it was
aimed at installing and developing libraries in state schools at all level,
supplying its users with the necessary resources to read, access, use
and produce information.
This program is coordinated by School Library Network Office, and it
depends upon the Ministry of Education that controls and articulates
itself with other ministry services as regional departments of
educations, municipalities and public libraries.
http://rbe.min-edu.pt/np4/np4/?newsId=1055&fileName=rbe_UK2013_print.pdf
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5. School Libraries Network Program
Guidelines
1. Development of school libraries within a school communities perspective, calling
for the articulation and the networking principles.
2. Management by a librarian teacher (Cristina Meneses) with adequate training,
supported by a team of 3 teachers (António Almendra, Helena Rodrigues e
Anabela Ramos) with a total of 13 hours a week, and 3 assistants (Marina
Penteado, Teresa Pereira e Cristina Vigário).
3. Area organized by several functionalities and services:
a. Front-office: reception, information and loan services;
b. Informal reading (newspapers, magazines, albums…);
c. Reading, studying and working area: different supports are available – printed,
audio, video and multimedia – and also the access to the Internet and also free
wifi;
d. Multipurpose room (group work, study, meetings, lectures, workshops…).
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6. School Libraries Network Program
Guidelines
4. Collection should be updated and adjusted to the student´s and teacher´s
needs. It should include curricula supporting documents, literature
collections, juvenile literature, newspapers and magazines, educational,
informative and leisure DVD, CD audio and CD-ROM and in the close
future ebooks.
5. Free access documents and standardized inter-library sharing.
6. Electronic catalogue (Bibliobase/OPAC): formation students in
bibliographic standards and procedures.
7. The school budget supports the update of the collection and the
equipment maintenance.
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7. School Library ESRBP
•Our school is in the RBE network since 1999
•About ESRBP:
• Is a secondary school with 3 rd grade of basic
education
• Regular secondary school (access to university)
• Professional courses (access to the labor market)
• We are in a small city, situated in the central region
of the country.
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8. School Library ESRBP
•Reading National Plan /Plano Nacional de Leitura
• 2007-2011
• To raise the level of literacy and to place the country on a par
with its European partners (national results in literacy studies).
• Government initiative (Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture and
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs)
• It is aimed at creating the conditions to achieve reading levels:
information made available by the media, access scientific
knowledge and enjoy the great novels of Literature.
• Ler+ Jovem: reading program of our School Library
• http://www.planonacionaldeleitura.gov.pt/escolas/uploads/projectos/ler+_jovem___2013_15.pdf
• http://www.planonacionaldeleitura.gov.pt/escolas/projectos.php?idTipoProjecto=57
• http://www.planonacionaldeleitura.gov.pt/index1.php
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9. School Library ESRBP
Program School Library Network
School library activities plan accomplish 4 domains:
A. Curriculum, literacy and learning
B. Reading and literacy
C. Projects and partnerships
D. School library management
MABE - Evaluation model of school libraries by RBE
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10. School Library ESRBP
School Library assures an
• important role in the readers’ training and in the
promotion of reading habits:
• Clube de leitura/Reading club (non curricular activities: peddy-
paper; find books by clues…)
• Ler+ jovem Project: reading for senior public…
• Reading National Contest: 1st stage – 2 books/each level; written
test and oral test
• Guide´s user http://biblio.esrbp.pt/a-biblioteca-num-minuto/guia-do-utilizador
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School’s Library strategies
• Users’ training activities
• How the different resources and services can be explored;
• Organize research tasks and school work preparation;
• Promote activities to use the library collection, through the different
instruments: digital catalogue, list of novelties, thematic
bibliographies, newsletters, sites, blogs, etc.
• Visit the Library School: all the first level year (12 classes)
• http://biblio.esrbp.pt/projeto-educativo/dominio-d-gestao-da-biblioteca-escolar/a-descoberta-da-
biblioteca-2013-2014
• Library helps students to complete their final paper (PAP)
• http://biblio.esrbp.pt/tutoriais-interessantes/como-estruturar-um-trabalho
• Meetings with writers
• Support teachers in class
• http://biblio.esrbp.pt/a-biblioteca-num-minuto/servicos
• http://biblio.esrbp.pt/a-biblioteca-num-minuto/a-biblioteca-escolar-be-ao-servico-do-professor
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19. School Library ESRBP
School’s Library strategies
• Motivate teachers to encourage their students to use the
library, by suggesting appropriate readings or consultation.
• Responding to the teachers suggestions
• From reading a book or parts of it, perform an artistic work:
painting, draw or other (“Para onde vão os guarda-chuvas”, by
Afonso Cruz, the writer/book of the month, dissemination by the
school).
• Fair use of copyright in digital context (lecture for students)
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26. School Library ESRBP
School’s Library strategies
• Suggested sites (blog)
• Management an e-learning platform
• Cooperate with teachers and students in a joint work with the
School Library: construction of portfolios; multimedia
presentations, webquests, webquizes, hotpotatoes, wikis,
blogs, podcasts…
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27. School Library ESRBP
Students work project
Video by 3 rd grade
Audiovisual course
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Professional Course in Audiovisual – video by students
28. School Library ESRBP
• “Not everyone is a reader, but I think, it is because the
circumstances do not we all readers. The possibility is in all of us.”
Alberto Manguel (free translation)
• "Nem toda a gente é leitora, mas acho que, no fundo, é porque as circunstâncias
fazem que não sejamos todos leitores. A possibilidade está em todos nós.“ Alberto
Manguel, aqui
• What role has the School Library today?
• Main goal today is to offer reading skills.
• Internet has good and bad information.
• How to distinguish it?
• Library School has a part in it.
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