Creating a School Library with Impact: A Beginners Guide

by Caroline Roche, Barbara Band, Nick Cavender

School libraries are facing numerous challenges in the 21st century. The number of professionally qualified staff working in schools has fallen in recent years and, increasingly, new appointments to library positions are sorely lacking the skills and knowledge needed to be successful in their roles. While there are a number of resources available detailing how to improve your school library once it is up and running there is a dearth of books that deal with the absolute basics in a practical manner, looking at the role from the first day.

Creating a School Library with A Beginners Guide  is an introductory manual for anyone entering or looking to enter the exciting world of school librarianship in primary or secondary school settings. It provides readers with everything they need to know and understand from day one from author visits, social media, reading schemes, information literacy, evaluating your library, the physical layout of your room and much more, providing an invaluable guide to those first few years in the role.

208 pages, Paperback

Published October 14, 2022

Reviews

[Agent_bugs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some really interesting chapters and ideas that I look forward to trying to implement in an appropriate way for my context. I definitely need to reread this and annotate. There were a few chapters which didn't quite work for me, as they're a little confusing, so I'd give this 4 1/2 stars if goodreads allowed half stars.