Prof. Emanuela Sangalli, School Teacher and School Library Coordinator at Vivona Grammar School in Rome, explains the reasons why at "Liceo Vivona" it has been issued to plan new reading spaces, the “reading corners” as an extension of the school library at each floor of the school building in order to integrate teaching and reading in all forms. The ongoing school library and reading project started in 2015 and has been involving a mixed team, working in different areas such as cataloguing, book enhancement, and reshaping of the school spaces, in particular the halls and the meeting room. Our theoretical premise refers to the user’s central role and his/her need for information, literacy, and socialization: the complex library system in its central elements (workers, spaces and collections) can fulfill this aim by focusing on an efficient promoting action, which starts from reshaping the library spaces, making them more spread out and attractive. Two empirical theses have studied Liceo Vivona library users’ behaviors, needs, and expectations. Their findings were used as guidelines for the subsequent activities, and as a base to identify unused and anonymous spaces and reconfigure them in order to have more access to all forms of information that the school offers, such as MLOL (e.g., Media Library On Line), which allows digital resources access and lending. The enhancement of the reading space - which is subject to more attention in lower grades of education - should be promoted in both junior and senior high schools, too, in order to nurture the impulse to read, especially during adolescence when students tend to lose interest in this activity.

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione
Department of Education
A DIFFUSE LIBRARYTO PROMOTE READING AT SCHOOLA DIFFUSE LIBRARYTO PROMOTE READING AT SCHOOL
A CHALLENGETO “VIVONA” GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN ROME
Emanuela Sangalli – ‘FrancescoVivona’ Grammar School, Rome
In collaboration with
#RomaTrenonsiferma / #RomaTredoesnotstop

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Emanuela Sangalli has been a high school teacher of
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Italian and Latin since 1988; she was formerly the school
library referee at Liceo Scientifico Rodolico of Firenze
from 2005 to 2009, and currently, since 2013, at Liceo
ClassicoVivona in Rome.C ass co vo a o .
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ABSTRACT3
The contribution explains the reasons why at LiceoVivona, a Grammar High School in Rome, it has been issued to plan new
reading spaces, the “reading corners” as an extension of the school library at each floor of the school building in order to
integrate teaching and reading in all forms.The ongoing school library and reading project started in 2015 and has been
involving a mixed team working in different areas such as cataloguing book enhancement and reshaping of the school spacesinvolving a mixed team, working in different areas such as cataloguing, book enhancement, and reshaping of the school spaces,
in particular the halls and the meeting room. Our theoretical premise refers to the user’s central role and his/her need for
information, literacy, and socialization: the complex library system in its central elements (workers, spaces and collections)
can fulfill this aim by focusing on an efficient promoting action, which starts from reshaping the library spaces, making them
more spread out and attractive.
Two empirical theses have studied LiceoVivona library users’ behaviors, needs, and expectations.Their findings were used as
guidelines for the subsequent activities, and as a base to identify unused and anonymous spaces and reconfigure them inguidelines for the subsequent activities, and as a base to identify unused and anonymous spaces and reconfigure them in
order to have more access to all forms of information that the school offers, such as MLOL (e.g., Media Library On Line),
which allows digital resources access and lending.The enhancement of the reading space - which is subject to more attention
in lower grades of education - should be promoted in both junior and senior high schools, too, in order to nurture the
i l t d i ll d i d l h t d t t d t l i t t i thi ti itimpulse to read, especially during adolescence when students tend to lose interest in this activity.

4. OUTLINE
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Introduction
1 The library space in teaching practice1. The library space in teaching practice
2. The library users
3. The library space since 2014 up today
Final remarksFinal remarks

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INTRODUCTION5
 The viewpoint of a school teacher of Humanities who
has been teaching for 35 years and, in the meantime, has
always been involved in the school library management.
 The current school context: a Headmaster, Prof.
Benincasa, who believes in the educational, didactic and
cultural function of the School Library, a professional
school librarian, a collection of more than 15, 000
volumes and a reality in constant evolution.

6. TWO MEANINGS OF THE TERM “SPACE”
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TWO MEANINGS OF THE TERM “SPACE”6
The ‘space’ of the library as:
 A PHYSICAL SPACE A PHYSICAL SPACE
THE SPACE OFTHE LIBRARY INTHE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

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READING: COMPETENCES AND BEHAVIORS
THE PISA 2018 RESULTS AND THE REALITY OF “VIVONA”
I PISA I l d h 476 d k ll
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In PISA, Italian students reach 476 points in reading skills
against the average of 487 in other countries.
Only one in 20 can distinguish facts from opinions in a
complex text; one in 4 fails to grasp the central idea of a
medium-length text.
BUT
according to the findings of two empirical theses of the A.Y.
2015-16 in our school 84% of students love reading, the
average of books read in one year is 14.
CONCLUSION:
the Italian reality is more varied than the statistical data
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THE LIBRARY IN THE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
DIDACTICS IN ITALY, SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND IFLA GUIDELINES
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In Italian teaching practice, the teacher-student-textbook relationship is central.
• Vivona's library equipment would make it possible to achieve the objectives ofy q p p j
the IFLA Manifesto:
• support and achieve the educational objectives of the school's mission and
curriculum
• offer students the opportunity to acquire the skills necessary for lifelong
learning, to develop the imagination and to make them become responsible
citizens

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THE LIBRARY IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
DIDACTICS IN ITALY AND INFORMATION LITERACY
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Awareness of the IFLA Guidelines which define the school library as:
•physical and digital space open and accessible to all;
h l i l h ff i h l i l l f d kill f h•technological space that offers various technological tools, software and skills for the
creation, representation and sharing of knowledge;
•source of information for the whole community through fair access to resources,y g ,
technological tools, skills that are not available at home.
•Furthermore, an increasingly pressing need to develop in students the ability to identify,
l t i d i t i f ti (M di d I f ti Lit )evaluate, organize, use and communicate information (Media and Information Literacy).
Elements that MIUR has tried to exploit: PNSD and Action # 24- Innovative School
Libraries.

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THE LIBRARY SPACE IN THE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
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The specificity of the Liceo Classico - Luciano Canfora’s opinion - the strengths of the
“Liceo Classico” (i.e. Grammar School):
•the study of the history of philosophical and scientific thought•the study of the history of philosophical and scientific thought
•the philological mentality which is the search for sources and the ability to distinguish
true from false
•the habit of translating, an act that exercises intuition, teaches starting from what is there
to get to what is implied.
Observation: DIFFICULTY IN COMBINING THIS TRADITION WITH WORKSHOP
ACTIVITIES OF INFORMATION LITERACY

11. A DIFFUSE LIBRARYTO PROMOTE READING AT SCHOOL
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SECOND PARTSECOND PART

12. THE LIBRARY THE STARTING POINT (2014)
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• Missing OPAC
• No computer
• 15,000 books not issued and
described in a paper catalogue
• Arrangement along a corridor and
in the Aula Magna with shelves that
sacrificed the spacesacrificed the space

13. THE LIBRARY AS A LEARNING ENVIROMENT
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THE LIBRARY AS A LEARNING ENVIROMENT
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
B f h h d i f h lib l bl
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Before the enhancement and renovation of the library, a valuable
collaboration was set up in 2014 with Luisa Marquardt,
professor of Bibliography and Librarianship at the Department
of Education of Roma Tre University which led to:of Education of Roma Tre University, which led to:
• establishment of working groups of teachers from different
disciplines
• laboratory activity of training both teachers and students on
the value of the school library and cataloging
• sharing and dissemination of the work done (e.g., intervention
on 20 March 2017 in 'Reading promoted through the school
library' as part of the 'Rome that reads' initiative)
• ASL activities in agreement with the Roma Tre University.

14. USERS’ NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS
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USERS’ NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS
(SURVEY AY 2015-2016)
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Action research conducted in the A.Y. 2015-2016 by Federica
Damico (B.A.) and Giulia Di Pietrantonio (M.A.), as a part of
the internship and the respective degree theses (of an empirical
nature) in Bibliography and Librarianship at Roma Tre
University, with the administration of a questionnaire and
related data processing which put light the need to:related data processing, which put light the need to:
•greater accessibility to the library
•new technological instrumentationnew technological instrumentation
•more comfortable and welcoming environment.

15. THE LIBRARY AS A “BIBLIOPOINT”
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• Collaboration between
the school, its own
library and "Libraries of
Rome" (Rome libraryRome (Rome library
system): mutual benefits,
such as the expansion
of the cultural and
reading offer.
• An example: the
intervention of
Giordano Meacci in the
edition of "Libri Come"
(March 2017).

16. PATRONS
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 Students
 School teachers – Education and PD
 School staff
 Parents
 Borough (through the “Bibliopoint”)

17. THE CURRENT SITUATION OPAC
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THE CURRENT SITUATION: OPAC
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OPAC Implementation:
• with the initial contribution by Damico and Di Pietrantonio and,
starting from 2016, with the continuous collaboration of very
valuable Civil ServiceVolunteers made available by Rome Public
Library Network (“Biblioteche di Roma”)
• software used: Clavis
• Shift from "Bibliorete Ostia" to "Latium School Library Network"
• Cataloging: collaboration also of internal students formerly ASL
(Alternation School-Work), now PCTO (Paths for transversal skills
and orientation), in collaboration with the chair of Bibliography and
Librarianship of the Department of Education, Roma Tre University.

18. BEYONDTHE PHYSICAL SPACE OFTHE LIBRARY
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BEYONDTHE PHYSICAL SPACE OFTHE LIBRARY:
MLOL – MEDIA LIBRARY ON LINE
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The space of our library is virtual, too:
•digital lending opportunity
•catalog of 60000 titles and 5000 publications
•access 24 hours a day, 365 days a year -
essential in the current situation (March-April
2020)
•opportunity to open up to the youngopportunity to open up to the young
readers’ interests.

19. THE PHYSICAL SPACE OFTHE LIBRARY
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THE PHYSICAL SPACE OFTHE LIBRARY:
EXPLOITATION AND EXPANSION OF SPACES
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Multi-purpose space (Library + Aula
Magna), with new furnishings and new
technological equipment, which allows:
•Conferences
•Study groups
•Reading promotion activities
•Book Club Courses
The library "outside of itself": creationThe library outside of itself : creation
of spaces / reading corners ("reading
corner") on the various floors (project
curated by Arch Serena Rubino)curated by Arch. Serena Rubino)

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FINAL REMARKS
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Open issues
Permanence of critical / development areas:p
• actual exploitation of our resources
• promotion of reading that must not only• promotion of reading that must not only
be delegated to teachers of Literature
• Students’ involvement• Students involvement.

21. CONTACT
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Prof. Emanuela Sangalli:
• ema462@hotmail.it