Signage

Kia Ora everyone, I thought I would share with you about the signage in my school library which is in five languages. They are in English, Maori, Tongan, Samoan and Cook Islands. These are some of the pictures.

Thank you to Caroline

During the week Caroline sent me an email on lib serve to to offer me free of charge through the librarian at Avondale College a complete set of fiction alphabet dividers in excellent condition for no charge.
I gladly went and collected them today and on Tuesday will delight in removing our painted wine boxes which have long served the purpose and look it too.

It just brought home to me again how much support I am receiving through this blog and the list serve.
Anyone passing through Pt Chevfeel free to pop in and see our new spruced up fiction area. Have just finished this week recataloguing it all on SCIS and redoing spine labels and cleaning the covers plus weeding a fair few out too!!!
Cathy

Scholastic Book Bags

Hi Everyone
I must have not listened very well at the course but at one stage I thought someone said that they were able to get plastic bags from Scholastic for children to use as book bags.
I have rung them today but no-one appears to be able to help me.
Do I have the correct information.
Cathy

New LInks Added

Morena Everyone,
Have added the E resources power point with the logos slide and 3 examples of Information Literacy Skills Continums that you can all look at. The schools have oked that they be used by others and adapted to suit their schools. I think that was all. Let me know if there is any thing else we promised .'Alice

Stretchy Library Lessons

HI everyone! What a great day yesterday! I said I'd post about the book I was given. It's from a set called "Stretchy Library Lessons" by Pat Miller ISBN 1-57950-083-8. There are 3 in the set : Library Skills ( the one I have ) , Reading Activities ISBN 1-57950-082-X and Research Skills ISBN 1-57950-084-6. It is very American in content, but has given me some excellent ideas. From the back of the book "Stretchy Library Lessons : Library Skills has 10 lessons that focus on basic library skills, including parts of a book, fiction & non-fiction and the Dewey Decimal System. Each lesson has one 20 minute activity and one stretchy activity that you can tailor to fit your time frame. The lessons include: a listing of the library skills covered, grade range, statement of purpose, list of materials, items to prepare in advance, additional materials needed and appropriate resources. " Mine was given to me by an American librarian friend. Good Luck.

"Once" by Morris Gleitzman
Felix's parents sent him to live in an orphanage in the mountains in Poland for 3 years. He believes his parents are still alive and are coming back to get him, but when he sees the Nazi soldiers burning the nun's books, he senses that his parents may be in danger. Felix escapes from the orphanage in an effort to find his parents, and in doing so befriends another orphan child named Zelda, who joins Felix on his long journey through Nazi occupied Poland. The children are discovered by the Nazis hiding out with a man called Barney, who cares for Jewish children. Barney then makes the ultimate sacrifice for the children.
This is a brilliant book, sensitively written. It is suitable for children 10 years and older.

The sequel to this book is "Then". I can thoroughly recommend both these books.

Picture Book
"Trev and the Kauri Tree" by Chris Gurney
A typically kiwi version of Jack and the Beanstalk - this childrens picture book tells the story of Trev who climbs a huge kauri tree to steal the Taniwha's greenstone, which he sells on Trademe in an effort to help his cash-strapped mother.
This book will appeal to children of all ages at primary level.

BOOK REVIEW

The Trenches, Billy stevens, Western Front 1914-1918, by Jim Eldridge.

This is a historical novel in the "My Story" series, which is based on the real events of WWI.
It is the story of two best friends who lied about their age in an endeavour to enlist with the army because they were eager not to appear cowardly and to experience the excitement and adventure of fighting for their country.

One boy specialized in communications, the other was sent to the front line. This was a huge "wake up" call for both boys who had never travelled more than 30ks from their home town. Their almost "glamorized" picture of war was soon dispelled when all too soon they were faced with seeing half their regiment killed in front of them.

I chose to review this book as it had been issued only twice since being accessioned in 2003.
although fiction it gives a realistic account of life in the trenches, the experiences, hardships, disillusionment and the realization of what war means, in an easy-to-read novel.
I really enjoyed it, but I doubt whether the subject would appeal to a primary school child.
When compared with books such as "Harry Potter" etc. I can understand its lack of appeal (unless perhaps it was read to them), or they were doing a specific topic on war. Consequently I think this book would be more suitable to an older age group - 12 yrs and over.
Annette s

Book Review

Book Review
Chicken Feathers by Joy Cowley is a 2009 NZ Post Book Award Finalist. It is a story about a boy called Josh and his pet chicken Semolina who talks to him, (and who likes a drop of Grandmas home brew!) Josh's family own a free range chicken farm. His mum is close to having a baby after years of trying and has to spend 3 months in hospital on bed rest so Grandma come to stay. She doesn't approve of chickens in the house and Semolina gets shooed outside. However there is a fox about and Semolina warns Josh that he is stealing the eggs from the number 3 hen house. Josh tells his dad but he doesn't believe him and certainly doesn't believe that Semolina can talk. A simple and warm story about a family and a special friendship. I think it would suit ages 9-10 and up.
Kerri

Book Fair
Hi all, our school is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair in 3 weeks. This is the first time I have done this and am feeling a tad "green" about the best way to run it and in particular the best way to enable our parents to see what we are doing and in turn, buy lots of books!!
Scholastic have provided a fair bit of info but not alot about the above and I wondered if there was any good ideas (or things to avoid) from anyone in our group who has run one of these before. They have booked the Clifford the Big Red Dog costume for me so I may have to run amok at assembly on the Friday!
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and see you Thursday.
Cheers, Kerri Hartley-Jones

Book Review

Hatchet: The Return by Gary Paulsen

This story is a sequel to Gary Paulsen's award winning novel Hatchet. In the story Hatchet, Brian takes a plane trip to Canada and the pilot has a heart attack and the plane crashes. Brian finds himself all alone with only his hatchet to help him find his way out of the wilderness... which he does. In the sequel, which is set one year later. Brian is approached by a psychologist to relive his experience. But this time he is given the luxuries of shelter and sleeping equipment. Brian becomes frustrated and this causes him to make a bad decision which leaves him with nothing but items in his pocket.
Out of nowhere, lightening strikes and hits the psychologist which causes him to become comatose. Brian and the psychologist are taken on a multitude of adventures such as being attacked by thousands of hungry mosquitoes while rafting through the rapid waters. This tests Brian's survival skills.
This story is full of adventure, excitement and survival techniques.

Book Review

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd ISBN 9780440868026

Ted [12] and sister Cat [older] watch as their cousin Salim boards the London Eye. They track the sealed pod as it travels around and when the doors open at the end and people exit Salim has vanished. Brother and sister come together as they try to make sense of what has happened and find their cousin.

A great mystery! Suitable for older primary children upwards. Ted is telling this story and he has Asperger Syndrome so we get an insight into how his brain works differently.

I thoroughly enjoyed this as did my year 6 boy.

Jane Russell

Magazine subscriptions

Cathy again
I want to subscribe to some more mags for the library and am wondering which magazines your libraries have.

We already do NZ Conservation Club, Upstart, Scientriffic, Kidz Mag and Kids National Geographic.
Would love your thoughts.
Cathy

Don't laugh

Hi Team

You too can look as silly. Amazing thing was I didn't feel silly and the children just adored the change every day. This week I had the preschoolers and juniors ask me "Who are you today?" when I was dressed in my normal clothes. For the record I was The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Best Loved Bear.

I am happy to hire out the caterpillar costume, and thought I could charge $10.00 which would pay for drycleaning. I have the bear's hat too but hired the body of the bear costume from First Scene, Kingsland.
Cathy

Book Character Day

We had a book character day on Wednesday 12 Aug, the first time the school has had one in a long time. The kids and teachers got right behind it and really made a great effort. We had a parade in the morning and the junior and senior teachers swapped classes to read stories. I went and visited the junior classes as "Willy Wonka" and read Hairy Maclary stories to them. In all, a fun day.

On another note, I volunteered to be a driver for a day as part of the Storylines Tour this week. (I now know Manurewa intimately!) I had Elizabeth Pulford, Phillip Webb, Dawn McMillian and Darryl Torckler in the van and it was a pleasure to meet and talk with these talented people. They shared their stories with me and were just lovely. I highly recommend taking the time to volunteer if you are able.

Book Week has begun

Hi Everyone. Have had two days of book week - it is buzzing. Was Charlotte on Monday (courtesy of Pauline) and Little Red Riding Hood today. Carried my little basket around all day trying to hide from the wolf. Children are loving it and am guessing what I will be tomorrow. Had Brian Falkner at school today, he was fab. Was lovely to have Jane from Kohia Tce join us for one of the sessions.

Cathy

Picture Book Review Herbert by Robyn Belton

Well known as a fabulous award winning illustrator, Robyn Belton has now written her first book, Herbert, The Brave Sea Dog. Last week Lianza announced her the winner of The Russell Clark Award for her contribution to illustrated children's books.
Herbert is based on a true event that occured almost 20 years ago. Tim was a 12 year old boy living in Nelson with his family at the time. Heading to the Marlborough Sounds, Herbert accompanied Tim's Dad on a boat while Tim and his mother travelled by car to their holiday cottage. During bad weather through the French Pass, Herbert went missing. The story tells of his lonely struggle to survive the next 30 hours in the water and of Tim's anguish waiting to find his much loved dog. His undying conviction that Tim was still alive gives us much hope and the lovely ending touches us all.
The end pages are full of factual information and the illustrations support the text beautifully although they stand alone as well. There was a double page spread of Herbert in the water with a dolphin. The text did not suggest anything but the children decided that the dolphin would have helped Tim to survive his long ordeal. I have read this book to each of my classes accompanied with a video clip from Close Up last week when Robyn was interviewed after her success. The children werre fascinated to see Tim grown up as a 31 year old now and to hear Robyn speak of her writing.
A delightful picture book enjoyed as much by my Year 6 children as my Year 1 class.
Cathy M

Book Review Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo

This powerful novel is based on a true story. Set in Pakistan it depicts the story of the real Iqbal Masih who arrives at Hussain Khan's carpet factory. He becomes a sign of hope for the other children in the factory who have been sold into slavery. He is the one who tells them their family's debt will never be paid but gives them hope to dream about a future where they can be freed of the tyranny and injustices of their young lives. In 1994 Iqbal won an international award for his work raising awareness of child slavery and helping to free numerous children from their workplace prisons in Pakistan. Tragically he was murdered in 1995 aged about 13. The carpet mafia were suspected.
A sobering read, just a short book but one with strong messages that could be linked to study on child abuse and child labour laws. At the back of the book there are websites and book lists to further your reading. Admittedly this book is aimed at older children but I am sure our year 6's would be touched by the plight of these children.
I took this recommendation from a schoollib serve list of books of children from different cultures .
Cathy M

"FRIGHTFULLY" GOOD READ

On a "frivolous/scary" note I decided to do a display which would appeal to the boys! Although the "Goosebumps" series needs no introduction
or promotion it was an easy theme for my first display!!

Tasks for Day Four !

Task One
With your buddy you are to visit a well run library selected by the advisers for you to visit. You will be given the contact details to organise a time. Take the checklist provided to complete while you are there. Bring to the next session to share or put photos up on Blog

Task Two
Plan an activity or a strategy for supporting information literacy in the classroom or library
OR
•Describe an activity or a strategy that you have used to support information literacy in the school/ library

Task Three
Plan a Reading Promotion for your school library. Bring your activity with you for Day 4.

Task Four
Select a picture book & novel to take away to read. Review the books and comment on suitability of books for your library on blog

Task Five
Professional reading
Click onto the EPIC databases using the link on the right of the blog page or going to http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
Click on “log into databases”
Enter your school’s username and password
Scroll down the databases til you get to MasterFILE Premier
Type into the find box “ ross todd rescue”
Click on the title and this will bring up the full article of
Ross Todd to the Rescue by Brian Kenny in School Library Journal, Vol 52, no 4, April 2006.
Print out the article or read online and fill in the response sheet given out at the end of Day 2.

Task Six
Bring notes to feed into a draft action plan and a Procedures manual if you have a procedure manuals bring it in

Graphic Novels

I have introduced a new area for graphic novels. This term I have made it an "I stay in the library" section, so that everyone can look at the whole selection. Next term they can be borrowed for two weeks at a time.

Visiting authors

During our book week in August we are having 2 authors visit - you are very welcome to join us if you can get release, are free, are interested etc.
Brian Falkner will visit us Tuesday August 25 from 9.30 until 1 and Melinda Szymanik, author of The Were Nana will be with us Wednesday August 26 from 9.30 until as well.
We are at St Francis School, 2 Montrose Street, Point Chevalier.
Cathy

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS OF BOOKS

After seeing your lovely The Hungry Caterpillar display Jayne, I thought maybe our theme for Book Week could be birthday celebrations of books. As well as the Hungry Caterpillar I know My Brown Bear Barney is 25 as is Hairy McClary and 2 of Mem Fox's stories Wilfrid, Gordon ... and Possum Magic. Can anyone add to this list books for primary aged children that have been around for along time and are still popular.
Many thanks
Cathy

accessing EPIC rersources

Jane
I have tried to use your instructions to save E Britannica in my favs. I can save it fine but when I try to go back into it it asks me for my username and password again. It doesn't recognise it saying it can't authenicate my access.
Can you give me any idea where I am getting stuck.
Would it be better to ring you and if so which time suits you best.
Cathy

Some Display Ideas

These are a couple of really basic displays I've put together... one for Eric Carle's Hungry Caterpillar - celebrating 40 years in 2009; one just for our Picture Books collection and the third one for the My Story series.

Promoting EPIC

Since our last session, I've been promoting EPIC to teachers and students and have been showing the Year 5 and 6 students how to use it. So far, have had quite a lot of positive feedback.

Samoan Language Week @ Mangere College

Samoan Language Week

Talofa lava everyone,

Enjoy the displays Mangere College had for Samoan Language Week.

:) Pauline

Costumes of book characters

Hi again
For our Book Week in August I want to dress up Monday - Thursday as a different book character as a lead in to the whole school being part of a book character parade on the Friday. I will have a daily draw of "Guess My Character" and the prize will be.... you guessed it, a book!
Have any of you access to book charcter costumes I could use. I promise to take very good care of them. Anything will be considered (well within reason).
Cathy, St Francis

I can't access the student librarian data

on the Nat Lib website. Habve asked them and been told it is very slow - but have been trying for days. I wanted to do flash books like Cathy ( St Francis ) for my librarians. Did anyone download and save the data and could they email it to me? Email addy is lisac@tepapapa.school.nz.

Thanks in advance.

NZ Book Council

Hi Everyone
In the past our school belonged to his organisation but felt they were not receiving any benefits so have not belonged for sometime. I am wondering how many of you could counter that argument and feel they receive great benefits through their membership.

I would like one/some authors or illustrators to visit our school during our Book Week in August and know this is possible through the Council but am wondering what other avenues might be open to me.
Cathy
St Francis

Work room

The before photo's, well a couple of them anyway. I will post up the other photos I have taken another time. We are in process of designing a new library at Kelston Boys, so we hope we will have a workroom twice the size we have now.

Hi Everyone
Thanks for a great day yesterday. Have come to school today and withdrawn 14 of our Jun Fiction titles, one dating back to 1977. A very graphic cover of an Iroquois Indian attacking a young 14 year girl set in 1692 called Castle Dangerous obviously long overdue to be withdrawn. Feel a bit nervous doing it as our previous policy has been a directive from management to withdraw no more than 10 at the end of each year. Of the 14 books only 4 have ever been issued and last issue was 2000 so I feel a great tidy could easily happen if I don't curb the urge.
Pauline I guess when we get our new library would be a good time to do a really good clean up. It is very easy to withdraw a book isn't compared to accessing it?
Cathy Mahoney
St Francis

Day Three Tasks

Task One – Prepare a needs analysis for the library users in your school.
Task Two - SCIS and/or Schoolscat
Use one or both of these to catalogue 10 books, and comment on how you found the process and the quality/ accuracy of cataloguing and subject headings

Task Three - Outline of Buying plan
Include:
a) Curriculum area(s) that classes are studying this year that need(s) strengthening
b) An area of recreational reading that could be strengthened e.g. more picture books with Pacific Island themes / characters.
c) An area in your reference section that needs strengthening
Task Four – Promote e- resource
Describe how you showed/ promoted one e- resources eg -EPIC, Te Ara to a student or a teacher
Task Five You can find the link for the NZ Education Gazette on the right hand bar of the blog.
We are looking for articles on excellent library practise in the 9 October 2006 Gazette. They are not all under one keyword so you will need 2 searches.
1. On the home page, click on articles on top bar.
2. This will take you to the article search. Type in “Library excellence”
3. For the second part of the article type in “heart of learning”
4. There is a third part of the article about Whangarei Boys High School so secondary participants may like to look at this article as well. Keywords:” boys reading”

Read the articles and list at least two points the articles make about schools with good libraries or good librarian practise.

Use and Promotion

You will have learned about lots of different and exciting ways you can promote your library to the school community - from book talks to creative book displays. We looked at different sites on the internet where you can get inspiration - the links are listed below if you would like to browse them in your own time;

ALA Banned Books Week

Bookcrossing

Voices from the Inglenook

State Library of Iowa

School Library Association

National Literacy Trust

Times Educational Supplement

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Scholastic

Author Posters

Schoollibrarydisplays.blogspot.com

Creativelibrarydisplays.com

Creative Arts Unlimited Inc.

Flickr.com

Hi, I'm finally adding my 'before' photos of my office/workroom. They are not pretty! Pauline reminds me that it is a work in progress; I know I will get the space a bit more sorted. Since the photos were taken, I have been able to get shelves added to the only available wall. You will note the large number of bins under the desk - I inherited 31 boxes of books to accession and process when I started in week 3 of term 1.

I have also included a photo of a pretty display we did in term 1 about the beach and sea (my daughter set it up for me). It has a sarong on the table as the material and has rolled up beach towels, and at one stage also had a swim cap and goggles. Unfortunately these went walking and I never found them. I had some shells from my collection, a sunhat, flutterboard, and included some photos of surf lifesaving etc from our collection. (the surfboard we decided was too big to fit!)

Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday

Caroline from Avondale Intermediate

Hi all, and homework

Hello all, thanks for the photos you have posted of your work areas. It has been great seeing what improvements you have made. I am cringing about posting my workroom photos because it is such a mess, but I will have to be brave and 'just do it'. My after photos will have to be done later on in the year, because at the moment it is a work in progress, and I am trying to figure out how to make it all work the best.
I have met with Pauline, my advisor, during the hols, and we have some exciting things planned for the physical presentation of the library. I have also just made up librarian booklets for our students, and am introducing them this week.
How are you all going with writing your procedures manuals? I am ploughing my way through things, as there was no instructions that I could find when I started in week 3 of term 1, so am having to figure it out as I go along.
Will have to post photos of workroom later, husband has been playing on computer, and have lost my photo folder!
Caroline from Avondale Intermediate

Anzac day display

This week I had this gorgeous nearly ninety POW (who happens to be my father-in-law) come to speak to our senior children to tie in with this simple Anzac display. I used a huge NZ flag as a backdrop (which I had used for a previous display for the NZ Post Book Awards ) and had a display of Anzac books. Two of my Junior Librarians did the lettering ''Lest we Forget" and used doubled sided tape to attach to the flag.

On the whiteboard are black and white sketches that Ian did while a prisoner plus some photos and newspaper articles. He has had several chapters written about him in books so read from these plus showed the children some very personal and unique memorabilia from the war.

As you can imagine the children were captivated to hear of his exploits.

Cathy

Websites for children

Hi Everyone
Our principal has just given me internet access on my library computer. She is happy for me to have some websites that the children could access but they have to be listed. I have suggested Auckland City Library and the National Library website. I am interested to know from you of any websites you regularly use with your children. We are Year 1- 6 at our school.
Cathy

Jane's workspace at Victoria Avenue School

These are before and after photos of my office. The setup I had was not working very well for me, so I bought a new bookshelf. It has created heaps more space on the bench for book covering and repair. I now share my office with one of the teachers who takes small groups for maths and writing in the library each morning. This arrangement works well for both of us. My computer crashed in mid-March - I lost 4 days work!! I now backup every day - it has been a painful lesson for me!

Slide Show from Day One NOW LOADED

I'm back from the Cook Islands and have loaded the power point and the orientation exercise.
See right hand side of blog

Kia ora everyone,
Great to see you are all using the blog! Im off To Cook Islands for 2 weeks to support their schools and library development. I have remembered that I promised to put the slide show of Day 1 up on this blog but I've run out of time and have had technical difficulties so will not be able to do it just yet. My apologies

Jane at Kohia Terrace- Workspace

Doesn't this look amazingly tidy? I have just cleaned for the holiday and labelled the cupboard space but apart from that I decided that I am very happy with my workspace. The front desk works well when there is a class in -there is plenty of room for 2 students to work and I have the back bench to spread out on which of course I do, so usually more cluttered than this. Unfortunately we are soon having some alterations in the library to make the Teachers' Resources accessible from the library so I will lose a bit of this back space. Hopefully having the resources more under my control might make my job easier though.

I am very lucky to have an ex parent who still likes to come in once a week usually to do covering and she does a fantastic job and there is room for her to work comfortably.

Annette's Work space

Here are a couple of shots of my
"work space" at Birkdale North
Library. Our library is fairly small
at the moment, but we hope to
enlarge it in the very near future.

I work part-time and my hours are
divided between the school office and
the library - consequently I don't get
to spend a lot of time here - probably
that accounts for the fact it is so tidy!

Giving my junior librarians responsibility

Attached is a photo of a display by two of my Year 5 junior librarians. This was totally their work and what was lovely was the way they worked on it in the librray at lunchtime and had their friends helping and children asking what they were doing. As a result 3 other pairs have booked their display to follow so it has set a benchmark. I took a photo of the completed display and glued it into their log books with a positive comment.

Today I took 3 of my junior librarians with me to Jabberwocky on a buying trip . They were asked to choose one book each for the library but they ended up choosing more than 1!!!. When I process the books I will write 'This book was chosen by ................." They absolutely loved the afternoon and so did I looking at books.

Cathy

Kerri's little Library Space!

Hi all. Here are some pics of our little library that we currently have in an old storage room at the back of our hall! While it's a tad cramped we do our best. Since the course, I have been in the process of tidying up and 'redecorating' with new Pictures and books on display along with my first ever display (for Poetry Month), which I was quite proud of! Previously I haven't bothered with displays as the lack of space put me off, however I have become a bit more inventive and have really enjoyed cleaning up and making the most of the space we have.

The Library desk space is used by the children and teachers and as I am not in the Library full time I do not leave any of my work things there. The cupboard is my space for supplies etc and I also store items under my desk in the school office where I also work part time. Not ideal but we are building a new Library this year so we are hanging in there! Cheers, Kerri.

Not so tidy and tidy!

TE WHANAU O TUPURANGA AND CLOVER PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL

TE WHANAU O TUPURANGA AND CLOVER PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL

We have two schools on one campus, Te Whanau O Tupuranga and Clover Park Middle School. Te Whanau O Tupuranga is a Maori Bilingual Secondary school and Clover Park is a middle school which runs programmes for year 7 to year 10.

Our library is new and we are waiting for the signage to complete and display.

ISSUE DESK WORK PLACE

This is the work place at our library, an office for the librarian and a separate issue desk. We have computers including two touch screen computers and 4 to 5 students can work as a group.
We have library monitors who help the librarian tidy, return books to shelves and collect all overdue books from students and teachers from both schools.

The library is open during lunch time for students and teachers to read, conduct research or play educational board games. There are also two outdoor draughts and chess. We have Newspaper available in the library at all times.

These are some of the pictures from our library.

This part of the workroom include the cupboards that store the processing material and new books. The small metal box stores the subscription cards of magazines displayed in the Main Library area. Beside it are the new books ready to be issued, first preference given to student librarians. Blue basket is "paper recycling bin". Books on the shelves are for browsing in the library only - the card system used to record borrowers name. Beyond the glass cubical is part of the library with Fast reader and Fiction books.

Mangere College Workroom, on the shelves are the back issues of Times, Listerner and MANA magazines. Student magazines for leisure like Creme, Girlfriend, TV Hits and Car Performance. Also Past - Current MC School magazines and other School Yearbooks. Student Librarians put their bags on the bottom shelves.

Book week ideas

Hi everyone
I would be very keen to hear your ideas for a successful Book Week. I have scheduled one with Scholastic in August the week before the Storylines Family Free day on Sunday August 30. Am hoping to see a more active involvement by our children at this fabulous day following a week hopefully of fun book activities.
It will be my first Book Week and I am very open to your ideas.
Cathy Mahoney

Bronze, silver and gold awards

Hi everyone,  wasn't the course fantastic.  Looking forward to the next one.  Does anyone know where I can find the Bronze, Silver and Gold award criteria information for the student librarians.  Our school is looking forward to changing how our librarians do their jobs in the library and we would like to look into this fantastic idea of rewarding them with the award system.

Thanks for your help. Andrea

Cathy's before pictures!

This is Cathy's workroom before she flew through it like a breath of fresh air!