142 - Interessante iniciativa "Save Our Libraries Day"

Dá que pensar esta iniciativa da CILIP (em Inglaterra) pela positiva pela criatividade e pela negativa por se perceber que o problema das Bibliotecas é geral (e não só Português) e que os cortes orçamentais e a necessidade de cativar os públicos e fundamental

Será a 5 de Fevereiro. Vale a pena estar atento

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Save Our Libraries Day

 

 

A day of action on the 5th February

CILIP is supporting Save Our Libraries Day, a day of action to bring greater attention to the cuts and closures facing many public libraries.

We want everyone who cares about reading, literacy and libraries to use their public library on the 5th February and tell as many people as they can to do the same.

Get involved using our 'sliding scale of spare time'

Got less than 2 minutes? Tweet why you love libraries using the hashtag #savelibraries
Post this page to your Facebook profile and spread the word

Got 2 minutes? Visit your library website to download an ebook or use online reference resources.
5– 10 minutes?Contact all your friends and family, ask them to join their library and use library services on the 5th. Search and reserve books through this guide to library services in England.
10 – 15 minutes?Email or write to your local MP, local press or Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport about the unique contribution public libraries make to society.
15 – 30 minutes?Pop down your local library on the 5th. Borrow as many books as you can. While you are there read a newspaper, go online and find out what’s happening in your local community.

Not sure which books to borrow?

Find books to match your mood with whichbook.net

Select your mood and get suggestions for suitable books. You can then check if your book is available for borrow from the library.

Resources

There are resources on the CILIP website to support campaigning and advocacy:

• Messages about the unique value of public librarians and paid professional staff
• Guidelines on What makes a good public library service
• Use the campaigning toolkit to create an effective plan of action

Visit our Get Involved page for more advocacy ideas

Lawful issues

CILIP support its members getting involved on the 5th February as long as activity is legal. Members who work in public libraries should check with their line manager or union before getting involved. CILIP provides a free employment law helpline to all members.

External links

• List of libraries under threat and map
• Voices for the Library
• Voices for the Library's list of campaigns
• The Bookseller's Fight for Libraries campaign
• The Library Campaign's list of local groups
• Phil Bradley's Save our Libraries posters
• Find your nearest protest with the Guardian's map
• We Love Libraries film

69 - Survey of School Libraries shows gulf between best and the rest

Survey of School Libraries shows gulf between best and the rest

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               20/07/2010                         

There is a growing gap between the best  services and those where resources and management support are failing,  according to a new CILIP School Libraries Group report.

The national survey of UK school libraries has just been  completed, with detailed replies from 1,547 secondary, middle, special  and independent schools and exhaustive activity reports from over 1,000  of these, supplemented by information from 655 primary schools.
The report School Libraries in the UK: a worthwhile past, a difficult present – and a transformed future? concludes  that the vision and support of senior management is vital to success.  It is crucial that school management recognise the difference that a  good school library can make.
Currently, it is not a statutory requirement for schools in England  to have a school library. Making school libraries and librarians  statutory would be a big help in securing the vital role that libraries  can play in enhancing teaching and learning.
Professor Stephen Heppell said: “The evidence continues to accumulate  that libraries - and their librarians - lie absolutely at the heart of  3rd millennium learning organisations:  a place for scholarship, a place  to escape into adventures, a place of discovery, a place to share and  explore, a place for deep thought, a place for surprise, and above all  else a place absolutely without limits. The best schools have libraries  at their centres not as some sad throwback to an earlier age but as a  clear and evocative prototype of what ambitious learning might look like  in this century of learning.”
The key findings of the report are:
• There is a clear, and growing, difference between the best and the  rest in terms of funding levels, staffing and the services provided. 31%  of respondents judged the library stock good for supporting teaching  and learning in the school and only 15% thought coverage of websites and  e-publications was good.
• 87% of qualified librarians are contributing to information  literacy work in their school by such activities as planning and  conducting lessons in the library or classroom, often jointly with  teachers. A growing number of library staff are actively engaging with  ICT to make e-resources available and help develop e-learning platforms  to support teaching and learning throughout the school.
• 25% of qualified librarians are helping to design and manage the  school website; 59% are contributing actively to the school VLE,  learning platform or website.
• There is excellent work going on in helping students to develop as  information literate adults capable of functioning effectively in the  Age of Cyber-Information as well as in supporting literacy and reading  for pleasure.
• There is a clear positive relationship between the level of  education of school librarians and their ability to make an impact on  teaching and learning in their schools.
• Too many school libraries are staffed by unqualified people who  lack the skills and knowledge to work effectively with teachers in  developing information literacy, in actively and imaginatively promoting  reading and in exploiting the possibilities of ICT to support learning. 
• A worrying number of secondary and independent schools (32%), and  primary schools (18%), are reporting cuts in budgets, sometimes from a  very low base. Most other respondents reported no change in funding  levels (effectively a decrease).
School Libraries in the UK: a worthwhile past, a difficult present – and a transformed future?  was commissioned by CILIP’s School Libraries Group and prepared by  David Streatfield, Sue Shaper and Simon Rae-Scott, and is available  online at: www.cilip.org.uk/slg
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