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Dates for the Diary 2016
A small list of important dates to a school librarian. A more comprehensive list is available on our blog.
Finally
This booklet has been designed as a quick introduction to managing a school
library. It is not a definite guide or rulebook, this does not exist and nor should
it. The best thing about our profession is that we are able to work to our own
strengths and interests and that each school library and therefore each school
librarian is individual and different.
The purpose of this booklet is to provide a starting point for those new to the
profession and act as a refresher to the experienced school librarians among us.
lt is here to serve as a reminder that you are not alone, that we are here as part
of CILIP and SLG to help and support you in your school library.
Thanks goes to all the librarians who provided information and photos for this
booklet
Please get involved with SLG Scotland either through our blog, Facebook or
Twitter. Attending our mentoring or training events. Or get in touch if you would
like to join the committee.
Thank You
SLG Scotland Committee.
4th Feb Harry Potter Book Night www.harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/harry-potter-book-night
6th Feb National Libraries Day www.nationallibrariesday.org.uk
3rd Mar World Book Day www.worldbookday.com
21st Mar World Poetry Day www.un.org/en/events/poetryday
Jul - Aug Summer Reading Challenge www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk
13th - 29th
Aug
Edinburgh International
Book Festival
www.edbookfest.co.uk
13th Sept Roald Dahl Day www.roalddahlday.info
6th Oct National Poetry Day www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Nov Book week Scotland www.scottishbooktrust.com
Quick Introduction to
Managing a School Library
CILIP School Library Group Scotland
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SLG Aims p3 Contact Details p4 Professional Contacts p5 Development Planning p6 Evaluation p7 CILIP and CILIPS p8 Working with p9 - p12
School Staff and Departments
Pupils
Librarians
Head Teacher and Senior Management
Parents
Local Primary Schools
Public Libraries
Librarians
Skills Development Scotland
University Libraries
Scottish Book Trust Collection Management p13 Stock Selection Criteria p14 Librarian as Teacher p15 Reading for Pleasure p16 Whole School Reading Culture p17 Sharing Good Practice p18 Useful Websites /Blogs/Apps p19 Dates for the Diary p20
Contents
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Useful Websites/Blogs/Apps
Websites
www.lovereading4kids.co.uk - Lovereading4kids was created to be the best
recommendation site for Children’s Book from toddlers to teens
www.literatureforlads.com - A book review blog for boys, lads, males, gents, blokes.
www.booksforkeeps.co.uk - is the UK’s leading, independent children’s book magazine.
www.goodreads.com - Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book
recommendations.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk - The Scottish Poetry Library is a unique national
resource and advocate for the art of poetry, and Scottish poetry in particular.
www.scran.ac.uk - The Scran Trust aims to provide educational access to digital materials
representing our material culture and history.
Blogs
www.scottishbooktrust.com/blog - SBT’s blog with plenty of contributions from school
librarians.
www.heartoftheschool.edublogs.org - This site has been created to celebrate and
showcase the work of school librarians in the UK.
www.lrcms.wordpress.com - Managing a Library Resource Centre in North Lanarkshire
Apps
Edmodo Book Creator My Study Plan
I Movie Science at VL My Exams
Tellagami Aurasma
Any ideas for other websites/blogs or apps to use then let us know.
Below you will find a selection of our favourite websites, blogs and apps that we
at SLG Scotland use in our libraries. For more ideas check out who we follow on
our blog.
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Sharing Good Practice
One of the hardest things about being a school librarian can be the fact that most of us
work solo in our school libraries, this is why sharing good practice is vital to helping us
develop as professionals and to advocate all the important work we do within our schools.
One thing school librarians can be bad at is actually promoting the excellent work we do,
this is where sharing good practice comes in.
On SLG Scotland blog we have examples of good practice and will be continually adding to
this. If you have any examples of good practice that you are willing to share them please
get in contact with us.
The CILIPS website also has an area dedicated to examples of shared practice with links to
various websites and blogs. Check them out for some great ideas of activities to organise
in your library.
Sharing good practice is an excellent way for librarians to pull together their expertise and
feel more connected to each other and the profession. Just remember what works in one
school might not in yours and lessons, ideas and projects may need to be adapted to suit.
S3 PSHE Health Campaign
Pupils developed health campaigns highlighting the dangers of certain types of cancers and how to help prevent them. The lessons were librarian lead and the pupils learned about information skills and how to transfer these skills and use them in a project.
Drop Everything and Read
During World Book Day (WBD) every pupil and member of staff in the school stopped what they were doing and read for the 25 minutes of tutor time. The purpose was to promote WBD and reading for pleasure across the school. It also helped to showcase the stock in the library and resulted in more pupils coming to visit the library and borrow books.
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The School Libraries Group (Scotland) is the Scottish Branch of the School Libraries Group
(SLG), a special interest group of the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals (CILIP).
SLG Scotland Aims:
To support and promote the professional interests of school librarians
throughout Scotland.
To raise awareness of the role of professionally qualified librarians and the
potential of School Library Resource Centres (SLRC).
To share and promote professional expertise.
To promote the development of reading for pleasure and information literacy.
What does SLG Scotland do?
Encourages participation and discussion of matters relating to school librarians and
libraries through regional networking events.
Offers help and support to members, new professionals and SLRC staff through
mentoring.
Provides a forum for discussion and debate on current issues in school
librarianship using the SLG blog.
Creates the SLG Information booklets.
Visits universities to promote the role of school librarians and libraries.
Regularly updates the SLG Scotland blog and other social media accounts.
Find more information about SLG at:
www.slgscotland.wordpress.com
SLG Scotland
@SLGScotland
About the CILIP School Libraries Group Scotland
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Chair
Lee-Anne Connor
Chryston High School
Chryston
North Lanarkshire
01236 794890
Secretary
Andy Willetts
Stewarton Academy
East Ayrshire
01560 482342
Kat Brack
Lasswade High School
Midlothian
0131 271 4534
Shelagh Toonen
Elgin Academy,
Elgin
01343 543485
Lorna Boyd
Bellshill Academy
North Lanarkshire
01698 274940
Christine Sheerin
Queen Victoria School
Dunblane
0131 310 2954
Billy Plain
Knox Academy
East Lothian
01620 823387
Wendy Thirde
Blairgowrie High School
Perthshire
01250 871231
Gillian Gillespie
Learning Community Librarian -
Garnock Academy
North Ayrshire
01505 682685
Treasurer
Susan Campbell
Service & School Improvement
Team
Falkirk
01324 501980
Contact Details
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Imbedding a love of reading across the whole school goes a long way to promoting reading
and the library. Getting other teachers taking about reading across the school shows
students that it is not just the librarian and their English teacher who love reading - even
their PE teacher loves books!
Encourage teachers to have personal 'I have been reading...' displays, have dedicated
reading talk time in registration, take topic fiction books to other classes - for example if
students have been learning about the medieval period in social subjects, take up lots of
historical novels to their social subjects class one lesson.
Does your school have a literacy group? Make sure you join. You will be able to give your
opinions and your professional knowledge to the group.
Shadow Book Awards
A great way to encourage reading for pleasure as well promoting a reading culture across
your school is to shadow book awards. A few you could look into are,
Scottish Book Awards - www.scottishbooktrust.com/scba/shortlist-2016
Carnegie Medal - www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk
Costa Book Awards - www.costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards
Red House Children's Book Awards- www.redhousechildrensbookaward.co.uk
Blue Peter Book Awards - www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes
Grampian Book Awards - https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/libraries/young/grampian-childrens-book-award/
Start up a book group and either register to officially shadow the awards or make up your
own program, you could get a whole class involved and work with different departments to
bring the stories to life through the curriculum. Check out SLG Scotland's committee
member Shelagh Toonen’s shadowing of the Scottish Book awards on their blog for some
great ideas.
Moving towards a whole school reading culture
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The good thing about 'promoting reading for pleasure' as a school librarian - there will never
be any question as to whether this is your job. It can be the most fun, and easiest, part of the
job. There are lots of documents available telling you about author visits, national projects
and other large special events you can organise. However for when you are just getting
started in a school, here are some simple things that can be done in your own library.
Visiting classes
Set up a timetable of regular visits for English classes, if this doesn't already exist - offer the
opportunity to S1 and S2 classes first.
Think about what you want classes to achieve and where they are currently at. We all want
students to complete book reviews, write character descriptions, turn their novels into films
and perform them - but they need to actually read first! Plan your lessons to suit.
Focus on genre - Teach students about genre in your lessons . Use genre when having
conversations with students to narrow down what might interest them.
Depending on relationships with the English teacher - can personal reading be set as a
homework task? In a lot of cases you may find students need to be forced to read before
they get into the habit of choosing to do so on their own.
Extra-curricular opportunities
Think about what extra things you can offer to encourage your students outside the
classroom. Break times and lunchtimes in school libraries often have a captive audience of
regulars (in my experience these regulars are often NOT readers!).
Lunchtime/after school clubs - writing groups and book clubs are popular choices. Think
about how you can make your book club more targeted based on what you see people are
interested in - dystopian book club, graphic novel club, fantasy fiction. Library cinema - if you
have a big screen have special film weeks where you show a recent book adaptation. It
normally takes a week to see the whole film. (Check film licensing within your school)
Take advantage of local reading and writing events which you can run small trips to. Cinema
trips to see book releases can be very popular too.
Your reading stock
Build up a good range of teen fiction
Make your books easy to find; forward face books, genre boxes and displays.
Regularly remind yourself of what books you have - read the blurbs.
Incorporate lots of different texts - non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, newspapers...
ALWAYS keep in mind - you are not going to get everyone in the school reading - don't let
those kids that simply refuse get you down!
Promoting Reading for Pleasure
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Professional Contacts
www.scottishbooktrust.com
Tel: 0131 524 0160
www.cilip.org.uk
Tel: 020 7255 0500
scottishlibraries.org/
Tel: 0141 202 20999
www.sla.org
Scottish Branch contact—Carol Moug
Tel: 01382 307701
www.cilips.org.uk
Email: [email protected]
www.educationscotland.gov.uk
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Development Planning Development planning is a vital step in the management of a school library as it is your
opportunity to show senior management how your work in the library contributes to the
whole schools targets and the pupils learning experience. It also gives you a means of
evaluating the library and will help you to assess the impact the library has on pupils learning
and attainment.
The processes involved in creating a document such as this helps to consolidate your aims
for the coming year and allows you to share these plans easily with senior management and
faculty leaders within your school. It also lets them see the library is the same as any other
department within the school. Taking the lead from the Authority and your school take a
high level priority right through to your own library development plan. This will bring your
plan in line with the whole schools and with individual departments development plans.
Steps to creating a development plan
1. Identify Aims – what do you want to achieve within the library and across the school? Do
these aims fit in with Scottish National Priorities, local authority targets and your schools
improvement/development plan? Speak to departments and see what opportunities you
have to link up and work together to meet school targets.
2. Set Priorities – decide what is important to you as a librarian and what you want to
achieve across the school, for example; improving non-fiction resources, setting up
lunchtime clubs, information literacy, reading for pleasure, or library inductions. Picking your
top priorities for the year and putting them in your development plan will keep you on track
and focused.
3. Design a Development Plan – use the same template that departments use for their
development plans, this will allow you to link in with your schools targets and show how the
library and you can help achieve them.
4. Implement Development Plan – start the new school year with your development plan
ready to go. Make sure you send it to your senior management team so they know what you
are working towards for the year.
5. Review – at the end of each school year review how well you have achieved your targets
in your development plan, use the Quality Indicators in How Good Is Our School? and have a
meeting with your line manger to go over any problems you encountered or to promote any
success you had. If you didn’t achieve some targets you had set then if possible include them
in the next years development plan.
For examples of development plans and yearly targets visit the SLG Blog.
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A crucial role for a School Librarian is to teach ‘Literacy Across Learning’ as
identified by the Scottish ‘Curriculum for Excellence’. It is the main area where a Librarian
can demonstrate his/ her professional expertise.
For example, the School Librarian should be confident in running research/information skills
sessions which relate to each stage of the research process. These should be tailored for the
Subject and Year Group as appropriate.
Here are some examples of ‘Literacy Across Learning’ sessions that could be
delivered by the School Librarian:
Planning
Planning a Research Project ;
Time Management ; Keywords
Locating and Gathering Information
Information Sources ; Using Encyclopedias;
Search Engines ;
Google Advanced Search ; Domain Names ;
Surveys ; Questionnaires and Interviews
Selecting and Appraising Information
Reading Techniques (Continuous Reading, Close Reading, Skimming and
Scanning); Internet Research ; Spoof Websites ;
Evaluating Information (including websites)
Organising and Recording Information
Note-Making
Communicating and Realising Findings
Writing Skills , Plagiarism, Referencing;
Bibliographies: Presenting Information :
Presentation Skills
Evaluating
Evaluating Work
Another area which you can use your professional expertise in is Library Inductions for new
S1 pupils. These could run in conjunction with any department and would give you the
opportunity to show pupils and teachers how a library is organised (fiction & non-fiction
resources etc), introduce the idea of Reading for Pleasure, how to use the library catalogue,
how to use encyclopaedias & dictionaries, different book genres and how to research for
school projects effectively.
Librarian as Teacher – CfE & Literacy Across Learning
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Stock Selection Criteria
Things that should be taken into consideration when selecting or editing resources.
Is it relevant to the curriculum? Do materials support and contribute to the learning taking
place in the classroom? Do they promote critical thinking skills and independent learning?
Is it current? Out of date materials should be removed from stock, items that have a short
life span should be considered carefully before being purchased. In general books should not
be older than your pupils!
Is it age/ ability appropriate to the needs of your pupils? Most items should be appropriate
for the majority of pupils, but you also need to provide materials for the less able and for
those more advanced such as Advanced Higher students. Finding a balance is important.
Are they attractive? Do the materials appeal to your customers? Are they attractively
presented in an appropriate way? Today’s young people are a visual generation and if books
do not meet their standards, they will not be used.
Is it accurately written and from a reliable source? This needs to carefully considered with
other print media such as newspapers, magazines and online resources .
Stock editing/ book withdrawal
The existing book stock should be regularly reviewed to ensure it is in good condition. And
still relevant to the need of the library and its users.
Tips for maximising your book stock
Try contacting your local public library, they often have teen fiction and children’s non-fiction
stock in good condition that needs a new home and they may be willing to pass it on to you
in return for you promoting their events and services and sending pupils their way.
Work with other secondary schools in the area, maybe items that don’t get used in one
school could be just what you are looking for in yours.
Displays – face out books are always more appealing but try it with the books that don’t
automatically catch your eye.
Last Chance to read section – if pupils know a book is about to be taken off, they sometimes
give it another chance.
Book trolleys – keep books on your trolley, don’t always shelve them all. Pupils like to see
what others are reading and books that are just returned are a good way of doing this.
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Evaluation Self Evaluation – using How Good is our School to evaluate your library.
In order to improve the services offered by your library, it is vital to critically examine the
services you already provide. For evaluation to be most effective it should be an on-going
process, carried out throughout the year using evidence based internal and external
evaluation.
How good is our school, or HGIOS as it is known, is a toolkit for effective self-evaluation. It
provides a Quality Indicator toolkit that all schools work towards. The 4th edition has recently
been produced by Education Scotland. This new edition is aimed at all practitioners within a
school and can easily be adapted for use within the school library.
It states the key questions at the heart of self-evaluation as:
How are we doing?
How do we know?
What are we going to do now?
With the ultimate question that should be asked by everyone of “How good can we be?”
It is a framework of 15 Quality Indicators (QI’s). Not all of these apply to school libraries, but
paying attention to the ones that do contribute to effective planning for improvement.
More information on using HGIOS for evaluation is available on our Blog.
Useful Links
HGIOS – Education Scotland http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/h/hgios4/
introduction.asp?strReferringChannel=resources&strReferringPageID=tcm:4-870534-64
HGIOS – Libraries supporting learners – SLIC. Based on the previous edition but still useful reading.
http://www.slainte.org.uk/files/pdf/slic/schoollibs/hgioslsl.pdf
Improving Libraries for Learners – SLIC. Uses the previous edition’s QI’s but still useful.
http://www.slainte.org.uk/files/pdf/slic/schoollibs/ImprovingLibsForLearners.pdf
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CILIP and CILIPS
is a Chartered Institute, a charity and a professional body
which is governed by its Council - the decision making body
that governs the work of the organisation and sets its
priorities. It is the leading body representing the information
professions, it works to be the leading voice for information, library and knowledge
practitioners, working to advocate strongly, provide unity through shared values
and develop skills and excellence.
Everyone with an interest in the library, information and knowledge professions is
welcome to join CILIP. As a member of CILIP you have access to a range of benefits,
such as; Professional development, access to grants and bursaries, information and
support, advocacy and campaigns and much more. Please go to the website for
more details on how joining CILIP can help you professionally and further your
career.
is a registered charity affiliated to CILIP, the leading
professional body for librarians, information specialists and
knowledge managers. It offers its members; a number of
benefits including advocacy and support, events and
professional development as well as local branches and special interest groups
In relation to school libraries it provides information on the School Library
Advocacy group which was set up to promote and highlight the important work of
school libraries and librarians within the curriculum and in supporting pupils needs.
Check out http://www.cilips.org.uk/school-library-advocacy/ for more
information and a link to School Librarianship: An Advocacy Strategy.
A great way to get involved with CILIPs and School Library Advocacy is to gather
short quotes about school librarians from head teachers, teachers, parents and
young people that highlight the importance of a school librarian to them and send
them into [email protected]. Go to the website for more details and ways to be
involved.
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The aim of a library within a secondary school is to provide access to information and ideas
that support learning and teaching across the curriculum and to play a significant role in
promoting reading for pleasure. Key to this is a library with as wide a selection of materials as
possible, however this is dictated by budget allocation, space restrictions and the existing
and planned use of the library. All of these factors play a crucial role in managing a collection.
Many school librarians have a Stock Management Policy that they share with the Senior
Leadership Team and/or their line manager within the school. It covers many of the aspects
noted in the following. If there isn’t one in your school already then think about creating
one, it helps to have a document in place to show senior management and departments how
you manage your stock in the library and why.
Ideally the librarian should be working in collaboration with subject specialists and
departments and meet with them at least once per year to discuss the requirements for the
school year ahead. The librarian should have a comprehensive knowledge of the existing
resources and have the ability to plan the acquisition of resources to address any gaps
highlighted by these planning meetings.
The management and selection of stock should take into account the following aspects:
The school curriculum and lesson plans for the coming session
The learning needs of the pupils within the school.
The leisure interests of pupil.
Guidelines for Secondary School Libraries produced for the
School Libraries Group of CILIP, suggest a standard of:
A minimum of 13 items per pupil.
Ratio of fiction to Non-fiction is 1:4 or 1:5
Around 10% of resources are replaced ever year.
Although this standard hasn’t been updated for a while it is
a good standard to work towards within your school. It
will be useful resource to use to discuss with senior
management the stock that it is expected a school library should have. This will give you a
good base to start from if you have the opportunity to bud for extra funding for the library.
School Library Collection Management
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Working With
Scottish Book Trust
SBT is a national charity which works with people throughout Scotland to promote the pleasures and benefits of reading and books. www.scottishbooktrust.com
SBT provides the following support, events and activities for school libraries:
Learning Resources - Teaching resources, case studies, blogs and videos to help deliver lessons.
Authors Live - A programme of free virtual events.
Live Literature Funding - A programme which brings authors from the SBT database to school communities. Apply before the SBT deadline (available on the website). Sessions with authors can bring books and stories alive for pupils and can help to create excitement about reading and writing in the school community.
The Scottish Children’s Book Awards - A nationwide reading project in which children and young people from all over Scotland read and vote for their favourite Scottish children’s books of the year.
Book Lists - A variety of reading suggestions to help promote reading in school.
University Libraries
Liaison with a university library means that senior students may have the opportunity to use its resources to support their Advanced Higher research.
Initial contact should be made to the member of staff responsible for schools’ liaison in order to arrange a visit. It is best to avoid university open days and the university library staff will advise you which dates suit them for a school visit.
Time at the university will be limited and so students will be expected to make the most of it. This means that they should be focused on what they need to find. It also means that they should be as well prepared as they can be. Therefore, they will have looked at the university library catalogue beforehand, to make a record of the items that they would like to use when on site.
It is useful for students to complete a planning booklet in the school library prior to the visit.
Dissertation topics can be emailed to the university library ahead of time. School Librarians can hopefully offer some assistance to students during the visit.
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Working With
Within your role as a school librarian you will find yourself working with a number of different people and professionals both within outside of your school. Over the next few pages we have examples of working relationships you should strive to create and some ideas on how to develop them. More information can be found on the SLG Scotland blog.
Pupils
Working with pupils can be the most interesting and fun part of our job as a school librarian and there are a number of different ways to do this.
Firstly working with pupils on what stock to purchase for the library is a great start to building relationships with them and giving the pupils a sense of ownership and responsibility over the library. How you choose to do this is up to you, for example you could simply have a suggestion box that the pupils use or you could create a pupil council, where the pupils come up with ideas for events for the library. Training pupil librarians would give you the opportunity to work alongside the pupils teaching them the role of a pupil librarian skills giving them the opportunity to develop new skills.
Involve pupils in any events that you run in the library, if you are organising an author visit then you could have the pupils design posters promoting it across the school. If you have a library website then have pupils write up reports of library events or submit book reviews.
At lunchtime speak to the pupils and find out what interests them, if they would like any clubs run in the library give them the opportunity to set them up and run them with you as a mentor.
The best way to achieve a good working relationship with the pupils in your school is to talk to them and listen to their ideas.
School Staff & Departments
Typically when you think of working with a department in the library, English would be the go to. However the library is uniquely placed to work across a variety of departments and take part in or lead cross curricular activities. Make sure you go and introduce yourselves to all the heads of departments and find out where the library can fit into their development plans for the year. You will come across a number of opportunities where you can provide help and expertise to departments and develop lessons to be lead in the library.
Out with departments there will be other staff you can collaborate with in the school. Look out for opportunities with Home School Partnership Officers and other support staff. Get involved with activities across the school and make yourself known.
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Working With
Local Primary Schools
Creating a link with primary schools in your catchment area can generate excitement about books and help to cultivate long-lasting and positive attitudes towards reading.
A primary liaison programme can also help pupils to become familiar with the secondary school library, its resources and its librarian. Relationships can be fostered and developed so that pupils will feel comfortable, secure and welcome in the school library when they begin secondary school.
Strategies include:
Shared Reading - An S1 book group can read The Scottish Children’s Book Awards three shortlisted picture books with a group of P1s or P2s.
Structured programme of visits and activities - Each P7 class could be asked to visit the school library for visits throughout the year to partake in library activities.
Participation in the whole-school induction/transition programme - get involved in the P7s induction visits with quick library activities such as a book quiz or ice breaker games related to books and reading.
Head Teacher and Senior Management
The support of the senior management in school is something that many school librarians worry about. To raise your profile with them send regular updates on progress, show how library objectives feed into whole school improvement plans and get involved with whole school activities and working groups. Depending on who your line manager is - can you set up regular 1:1 meetings? Often support from senior management can take a long time to grow - be persistent and offer lots of evidence highlighting the impact of all the great things you are doing.
Parents
Getting parents involved in the library can be useful for a number of reasons, supporting students' personal reading at home, raising attendance at special events and, sometimes, fundraising. Parents will appreciate recommendations for age and interest appropriate books for their children and advice on study resources.
Ways to get to know parents - attend some parent council meetings, open the library during parents evenings, get involved with school trips or even have your own library open evening.
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Working With
Public Libraries
Schools and public libraries often end up serving the information needs of the same audience. A good relationship can be beneficial to both sides. Excess stock – public libraries occasionally dispose of teenage and children’s books that are still in good condition. You could make arrangements to select some of this stock for use in your school. The public library are usually only too happy to have the books go to a good home. Author visits – Often public libraries are looking for a captive audience and that’s when the school comes in! Networking – Being a school librarian can be very isolating, often the only other library staff in your local area are in the public library, getting to know them can open up a range of opportunities for you and the school library. Holiday Events – You have a captive audience for the marketing of public library events. Joint projects – These reach a wider audience and are easier to plan together.
Librarians
Within your local authority there will be school librarians available to give you plenty of help and advice. Make sure you take the opportunity to go to business meetings (if available) or attend one of the SLG Scotland's networking events. It is important that you communicate as much as you can with other librarians and share examples of good practice with them. If you are new to the role of a school librarian then it is a good idea to visit other librarians in your local authority for the opportunity to shadow them and gain an insight into the job of a school librarian from an experienced colleague.
Skills Development Scotland (SDS) (SDS) work in schools to target pupils who may need some help with future education and career paths. They also provide Scotland’s online careers information and advice service My World of Work (www.myworldofwork.co.uk). The school’s career officer/coach may be based in the library and this can provide an opportunity to form a working relationship to help the pupils with careers advice in the library. Work alongside your careers coach/officer to keep the careers library up to date and relevant for the pupils, arrange appointments, provide initial contact for pupils and
to organise careers events in school.
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