School library service comprehensive subscription package
Advisory Service
Working with your librarian and school staff we will:
- Evaluate your school library stock
- Help you develop a library and whole-school reading plan
- Provide opportunities for staff and pupil training
- Provide talks to parents and governors
- Provide computer management system advice
Refresh your library stock
We will:
- Help you to choose a new deposit collection equivalent to 2 books per pupil
- Work with you to provide a managed book exchange service in subsequent years
- Enable you to refresh your stock from our library centre or mobile library
- Choose new books through Reading Roundabout
Topic Boxes
Tailored to your needs, our topic boxes:
- Support teaching in the classroom saving your teaching staff time
- Contain up to 20 books per box covering current curriculum themes
- Are delivered to school free of charge
Makeover your library and classroom book corners
Our library advisors can:
- Advise you on how to refresh your library with a makeover
- Support you with your new library design
- Offer guidance and ideas for creating inspiring reading corners
Skill up your pupils to become School Librarians
- Offering advice and training to develop information literacy skills
- Why not bring your student librarians with you to select your exchange titles?
Assemblies
- Promote the latest 'hot reads'
- Inspire reading beyond school
Accelerated Reading Books
- Available to purchase, or add to your library stock through exchanges
- Books referencing AR quiz, point value, and reading level
Book Banding
- A large collection of colour banded books from pink to dark red are available
- Schools may purchase, add to stock through exchanges or borrow in topic collections
Termly Network and Support Meetings
- Keep up with the latest news and developments in the school library world
- Share good practice with colleagues from other schools
Website Access to Subscription Content
Online Support and Telephone Helpline
'Book for Life' scheme
- We can help you purchase 'shelf ready' books with a generous price discount
- Subscribing schools can include these purchased books as part of their library exchange and swap old books for brand new ones