Study in US has foudn that low income students reading levels decline at a greater rate because they don't have access to books, especially over summer holiday. Librarians need to get books into kids hands, not worry about books not being returned.
Findings of a British study that resonate strongly with Dr Cathy Wylie's keynote speech at the 2013 conference. Interesting to note the link between reading for pleasure and achievement in mathematics.
Thanks for sharing this - I agree our learning environments need to be flexible and be able to adapt to change, This can be seen at this school as the Library & Information Centre (which is only 4 years old) is so popular with students we have had to adapt the space to relocate Careers here so that their student footprint will increase. Students like to study and learn here so it is having services that they need near them and adapting areas to suit this.