Schools Library Service (SLS)

Supporting school libraries, literacy and learning

The School Library Service offers a comprehensive resource and advisory service to junior and primary schools. Resources are linked to the national curriculum and the wider curriculum from Foundation stage through to lower Key Stage 3. Experienced and friendly specialist staff provide advice and practical help, as well as books and other resources to support curriculum work and leisure reading.

Benefits to Your School

improve the quantity and quality of your school's learning resources
respond quickly to curriculum demands
foster the enjoyment of reading
save time, money and effort
keep in touch with local and national developments

Pupil with a book

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What Our Service Can Provide

1. Curriculum Topic Collections

Books and other items are available for teachers, librarians and teaching assistants to borrow, on request. These collections are intended to boost school resources on termly or half termly basis and can be delivered to and collected from, your school.

We hold over 19,000 non-fiction books, posters, illustrations, videos, DVDs, white board teaching aids, artefacts, models and specimens.

12,000 fiction, picture book titles, and dual language books in 40 different languages.

2. Primary Art Loans (PALS)

Termly loans of a box of our Primary Art collection to use as a stimulus for pupils' work, bringing them into contact with original works of art, including works from a variety of cultures.

The Art loans are currently being update with many new themed items and will be available over the next year.

For a catalogue of works of art contact the SLS on 0208 489 5043.

3. Advice, support and training

Do you need help with your library, or even help with setting up a library? The Schools' Library Service is able to offer schools specialist advice and practical help with all aspects of library and resource development, such as:

Planning and designing your school library/ resource centre
Organising your stock - editing, classification, labelling and guiding
Computerising your school library
Developing a school library policy
Promoting the use of your library/resources within school
Selecting stock - what to buy, what to keep and what not to keep
Information skills - training for teachers and pupils in the school library
Reader Development -inspiring a love of books, developing the reading habit in children and encouraging reluctant readers
Post OFSTED support work on the school library and resources
SLS Advisers can visit schools to provide advice or practical help on site.

4. Inset Days - New for 2009 – 2010

Achieve a more effective school library through training and development opportunities for teachers, librarians, teaching assistants, volunteers, parents and governors. Reduces rates for schools buying into the service. Training days schedule will be available online and prices are available on application.

5. Specialist Book Loans “NEW”

We are developing specialist book packages. Currently we have:

Boys into Books
The Carnegie Shadowing Pack.
Kate Greenaway Shadowing Pack.

Further booklist will be added to the collection over the coming year.

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NEW Pay As You Go (PAYG)

The following services are available to schools as stand-alone services or in addition to subscription services.

Curriculum Topic Collections

Collections of books and other items to boost school resources on a termly basis, focused on specific areas of the curriculum.

Project Loans (each)

Loan of up to 35 books = £60 per term
Resource Topic Box = £60 per term
Primary Art Loan= £50 per term
Specialist Book Collection= £60 per term

We will save you money. It is far more cost effective to borrow resources and exchange these regularly than it is to buy them and then have to replace them as subject requirements change or when the material becomes dated.

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Further Information

Youth & Schools Library Services Manager
Wood Green Central Library
187-197A High Road
Wood Green
N22 6XD
Tel 0208 489 5043
Email schools.services@haringey.gov.uk

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