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.