A presentation for the school community about what we have achieved over the past year on our library redevelopment journey. http://sacredheartdn.school.nz/library

1. Library Redevelopment: Stage 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TvQyM_XTpo

2. The beginning
• Consultation with children
• Small working group: BOT
Chair and two parents
• Inspiration for use of space
and design
• Meetings with Maxine
Ramsey from School
Library Services
• Collection weeding
• Consultation with School
Community at School Fair

3. Consultation
• Children were asked
their opinions about the
Library by BOT Chair
• Children were invited to
take part in a “Dream
Library” competition as
part of the School Fair
• Community invited to
share their ideas at the
School Fair
By Hannah Botting

4. School Fair: a chance to share ideas &
see the Dream Library art competition

5. Childrens’ opinions
I want our library to
be bright, and have
lots of colour.
Visiting our library should
take longer. I would like it
to take a long time.
It would be nice to be able to
have a table or something
where you could write down
things from the books, and also
a chair for if you are going to be
there a long time.
I would like the
library to be
warm. And cosy.
And welcoming.
And smell good.

6. I want to be able to reach all the
books, because maybe they are good
ones at the top.
It would be great to
have more books
and new ones.
What I want most is places to
sit and read in the library.
Maybe cushions but best
would be chairs, but they
cost lots of money.
I would like a computer in our library, to
find out things that the books we have in
there can't tell me.

7. School Fair: a chance to share ideas &
see the Dream Library art competition

8. Inspiration for use
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveandsarah/galleries/72157633152228051/

9. Inspiration for design
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveandsarah/galleries/72157633151921661

10. Consultation
• Read outside
• Open afternoon for
children and parents to
come to the library
together
• Self checkout
• Beanbags (inside
/outside)
• Comfy couches

11. Consultation
• Cosy places for reading
• Times for quiet reading
• Geography of myths
and legends
• Colourful with
beanbags
• Posters
• New display

12. Consultation
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Check out own books
Get cosy
Read
Study
Research

13. Budget
Incoming (received)
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$8000 (Fair)
$2000 (Bequest)
$360 (Donation)
$750 (Carpark fundraiser #1)
Fundraising in planning
• Carpark fundraiser #2
• Chocolate Santas
• Funding sources for books
Outgoing
• Furniture (4 x bean bags,
book boxes, computer
table, 3 X tables, 9 x chairs,
computer cupboard, returns
box)
• = $5043.75

14. Stage 1 - what we have achieved
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A cosy, colourful library
Chairs AND beanbags
Tables to write and read at
Computer space &
evaluated online resources
Lowered shelving
Weeded out old books
Continuing collection
development
Library webpage &
resources for teaching &
learning

15. New furniture!
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Space creation
Beanbags
Tables and chairs
Computer table
Browsing boxes
Admin cupboard
Returns box

16. Online Resources!
• Webpage developed
http://wwwsacredheartdn.school.nz/library
• Library blog
• Recommend a book
• Online resources

17. Stage 2 – things to achieve
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New shelving
New books
Computers in the library
Self issuing
Student librarians
Cultural / spiritual presence
What other ideas do
you have to help us
create a great
school library?