Takitumu Library!

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Takitumu Library!

Takitumu Library

Takitumu Library - Ready for the Students!

Kia Orana kotou katoatoa,

Last Thursday 14th May marked the reopening of the Takitumu school library. It was a whole team effort from the Principal Engia, to the carpenter Kevin and of course from Kerry and the whole staff of Takitumu. There was alot of overtime and weekends spent in getting the library ready for its big day. It was a BIG DAY with the invitation of guests such as the PTA Chairman, the Member of Parliament for the community, the New Zealand High Commissioner, Secretary of Education, Support Manager - Gail and of course the parents, and the students wrapped it all up with a beautiful performance. Enjoy the photos!!

Seeking assistance on how to insert photos in a borrower's profile

Hello colleagues and advisors,

Now that I have finally succeeded in getting on to blog, I can't stop. I want to insert photos of our students into their borrower profile but do not know how. So please if any of you professionals out there know how to do it, don't forget to share it with us Ok.

Kerry, how did your grand opening go? You must be glad now that you will go away for a while knowing that you have established the starting point for your school in using your library. Good luck and bring some new ideas from up north to share with us.

And to all of you who will be reading this message, I wish you the best of luck in developing your libraries.

Takau

Mangaia School's latest development

Hello colleagues and advisors, this is one new addition to our library and now our new books does not go out without being displayed for a week. I'm finding it difficult to cope with the students demand for these new books as to who takes them out first. Anyway, getting them to reserve the books is a good way to control who to take a book(s) out as they just have to follow the list until the person before them has taken the book they want or have reserved.

Anothe development I want to share with you all is that I have weeded our non fiction section for books that are suitable for our junior students and have added a section for them. As the new addition goes up the colour coding chart is extended as a guide for the students to the various sections in the library.

Another new addition to our library is the pillows for the students. As there is not enough for individual students they share.

I hope what I have shared will help with the steps you are climbing to get your library up and going. I know that you are creative in your own ways and will soon get to the top of the ladder with regards to the development of your libraries.

Good Luck to you all and I look forward to any comments from you.

An update from Tereora College, Rarotonga

May 2009
I have been so busy with reports that whenever I have a class in the library, it seems to be an opportune time for me to slowly start weeding books off the fiction shelves. .

Sam has been checking the shelves with me and putting aside books that would be good to get through Wheelers and the rest we biff out in to the fire. It's amazing the amount of garbage we have had on the shelves and are now realising how short each section in the fiction area is becoming.

I talked to David Milanovic (English teacher) about his class and gave him the wheeler's website and the password so that the could add books to the wishlist. I I will also be sending out a survey to the form classes to see what types of books the students are interested in reading and getting the subject teachers to check out the non-fiction area of the library to weed out their books and also to find out what they would like me to order.

Tekaaora School - Tepaeru's Library