SLANZA Connected Librarians

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.

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.

This is an activity which could be adapted to be a bridge between diving in for the full shelving fiction by genre approach and shelving by author.

Book Tasting - a great way to encourage reading with the students making their individual choices.

This is why we are on this SLANZA Online Course

Liked this as an idea for a library based school poetry day - Poem in Your Pocket Day to share with others throughout the day after researching a poem in the library. A previous site referred to a new book 'Firefly July and Other Very Short Poems' by Paul B Janeczko (Candlewick) coming out soon.

Movie adaptation of Lois Lowry book stars Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges. (VIDEO)

Hey girls, I read in today's NZ Herald Sideswipe that the movie 'The Giver' is being released this year. We don't have the book in our collection and I'm going to add it to this week's order.

Teen Reads

Web page for Teen Reads

The city council is seeking ideas and input from the public for the new $85 million central library.