Another new title in the range of popular SLA Guidelines, Practical Paperwork: Policy Making and Development Planning for the Primary School Library is now available.

Achieving a successful school library is a bit like gardening: ‘little and often, with regular input to obtain healthy growth and year-round interest.'  This Guideline, like the first edition, features ‘gardening tips', as well as ‘targets for best practice' and some useful recent OFSTED guidance.

The creation, implementation and regular updating of a library policy and development plan allows a school to maximise the impact of its library and learning resource provision, and is an essential task for anyone concerned to develop the library as a whole-school resource and focus for learning.

Written by Kay Harrison and Tricia Adams, this revised and updated Guideline considers Accommodation, Learning Resources, Management and Staffing, and Library and Curriculum Support, and sets out ‘Ten Steps to Success'. Three appendices give sample library policies from three primary schools, and there are four sample development plans.

Price: £7.50  (£6.00 to SLA members) including postage & packing        
ISBN: 978 1 903446 37 9

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