The document outlines the first stage of a library redevelopment project that involved consultations with children and the school community to gather input on desired features. Key outcomes include a cozy and colorful library environment with new furniture, accessible shelving, and online resources. The next stage aims to implement new shelving, increase book collections, and enhance library technology.

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?