Here goes finally....task 4

Hi Pauline
After reading the articles in the gazette, the areas that stood out to me as far as good librarian practise and good schools with libraries were as follows -
*the importance that schools have an enthusiastic librarian that has a good knowledge of their library.
*that processes are formed to enthuse and capture those students that do not have books as a normal everyday part of their life. Maybe reading has not been made interesting or fun to them before, as librarians this should definitely be a priority.
*Ideas about clubs and changing displays to keep the library alive to the children and teaching staff.
*Schools where the principal has the belief that the library truly is the hub of the school learning and literacy will far more easily make the library an exciting and hip place to be.

Thanks for your patience Pauline, will post photos tomorrow!

Bucklands Beach Intermediate workroom

I was really inspired by your before and after photos, thanks!

I've been busy in my workroom today - why didn't I do this sooner?!

I purchased a few plastic boxes and sorted the area used for processing books.

It is going to be more helpful for my colleague to have labelled boxes for parent helpers on the days when I'm not at work. Beats odd piles of books and scribbled notes!

Day 2 Tasks

Papatoetoe East Primary school is a decile 3 school with 500 pupils. Our ethnic mix is quite diverse consisting of Paficia, Indian, European, Maori and Asian children many of whom are recent immigrants to New Zealand and speak English as an additinal language.

Our community is very supportive of the school, and parents have very high expectations of their children's education. This is evidenced by over 90% turnout over the last five years for the twice yearly parent/child/teacher interviews. These interviews, which are largely child led, put an emphasise of literacy and numeracy for the children. During the interviews we explain the importance of reading to children at home and school, visiting the library and reading with the children on a daily basis.

We are a Duffy School and as part of this programme the children in the school receive a regular selection of books to keep and all the siblings who are under 5 years receive complementary books on their birthdays.

Our library, which opens daily at 8.30 and over both school breaks, is open to the parents and we have a special section that they are encouraged to use.

We have just completed a library weed with the support of the National Library advisors and are now in the exciting stage of purchasing new and replacement books to enhance our library collection. Our first purchase has been of a selection of graphic novels and comics. We are now looking at buying a selection of books in languages other than English. The buying of new books is in part funded by the community through the fundraising carried out by the Friends of School committee.

The opening of a new library is allowing us as a school to focus on the role of the library within the school and the broader community.

Sherryl & Brigid

New Library Papatoetoe East Primary School

Papatoetoe East Primary School.


Our new Library is coming!! By July 2008 we will have a 2 storey, state of the art Library. Watch this space.

Sherryl and Brigid

Meadowbank School Library

Meadowbank School

Meadowbank Primary is a split site school consisting of approx 660 pupils. The role is forecast to exceed 700 by year end.

We are very fortunate to have two libraries; one for juniors and the other for senior children. However, this is all about to change in term three. Next week, work is due to start on our new library under the school hall. Unfortunately we have run out of classroom space for our ever increasing school roll, so our two libraries have to merge into one new library. There will be a lot of work to do in setting up a new library but it is also very exciting. The photos I have taken are of the junior library and the back workroom that also house teacher resources.

These photos show the green bins that we use for our data entry for new books received into the library. We have developed our own in house data entry system, which compliments the two libraries currently in use at Meadowbank School. Once we integrate the two libraries into one resource room we will need to revisit the data entry system.

We also currently use other plastic storage facilities to store book covering materials, posters, book covers and books that require mending. By having a place for most things, it helps keep the relatively small and compact work area tidy.

Back workroom and teacher resources.

Picture Book shelves

Non Fiction and book issuing/return desk.

Royal Road School

Library Display Wall

Student Librarian's Desk

Librarian's Desk in Library

Clayton Park School

This is our workspace, it is a shared space within the central resource room. As this is all recent renovations we have the space which we are now using effectively. We have added plastic crates to the space which are for the various stages of book repair or preparation. This has been very useful in that I can grab a box of books that just need taping and tape them without having to sort them and double handle. This also means any helpers can come in grab a box and know what to do with it. We are also in the process of rearranging all the readers in the resource room, relabelling boxes and numbering books so that they are easier to be reshelved. We are in the process of applying for an ASB grant to get new shelves, computers etc.

Before

After