This document discusses the importance of school libraries and provides guidance for planning an effective school library. It notes that the goals of a school library are to promote literacy, independent learning, and information literacy skills. Good school leaders support the library by ensuring cooperation between teachers and librarians and providing adequate funding. Successful school libraries have a variety of books, activities, and technology resources and are centrally located spaces that promote reading. The document recommends budgets and details for establishing a properly stocked and maintained school library.

2. My background teacher trainer history, social studies in-service-trainer school library, reading promotion head teacher member of the board of the school library association of Hesse www.schulbibliotheken.de

3. My (former) school library

4. 1. A school library has no end in itself. The goal is: avid readers, better performance at school, information literate students 2. Teachers, not least head teachers, play a key role concerning reading, reading promotion, information literacy and school libraries 3. Planning a school library? Some technical remarks Overview

5. Video : Drop everything and read Several initiatives that encourage students to read and to achieve better: Drop everything and read Paired reading Book talk Literacy challenge The library and the librarian are the backbone

6. are role-models: they read themselves, speak about reading, visit the library support the librarian / teacher-librarian meet them regularly ensure cooperation between teacher-librarian and staff provide the library with a fair share of the school budget Good head teachers ...

7. Sucessful Teacher-Librarians ... promote reading teach information literacy provide a good collection collaborate with subject teachers play an active role in “selling” the library to the staff attend the meetings Keith Curry Lance, in: Threshold, Winter 2004, p 9

8. Planning a school library?

9. Mission learning to read; literacy training of skills / information literacy independent learning promotion of strong learners promotion of slow learners afternoon/day care help with home-work reading promotion collaboration with teachers

10. Activities extra-curricular reading club/book-talk pleasure reading creative writing author visit book-exhibition performance curricular interdisciplinary or subject-oriented projects guided inquiry research skills

11. Collection 2/3 non-fiction curriculum-oriented focus on subjects 1/3 fiction "media-mix" books periodicals brochures cd-rom / dvd internet-search engine, internet „catalogue“ intranet The school library is not a small public library!

12. Space for ... class groups individuals pleasure reading exhibition depot Centrally located in the school or on the premises, Exciting, welcoming, identifiably different from classrooms

13. Some Details About 5-10 books/media per pupil (2500 at least) 30 m 2 per 1000 books/media; 60 m 2 at least 10% of the collection to be replaced annually Cataloguing software, OPAC Shelves partly on wheels Good lighting (daylight) Carpet!

14. Budget and funding The library should have a fair share of the total budget because it is a whole school resource serving all staff and all pupils. Resources such as books, CD-ROMs, Web sites, magazines and story tapes remain useful only while up-to-date or in good physical condition. Consider the cost of replacing outdated or worn out resources and filling stock gaps. There also needs to be a budget for the physical environment and appropriate furniture and equipment.

15. School libraries are centers for discovery, inquiry, thinking and creativity

16. A school without a library is like a desert without an oasis