New School LIbrary site and box art

 Our NEW school libraries website has been launched. Check it out!!
 It has heaps of good information from creating readers to ideas for signage to inquiry learning.
http://schools.natlib.govt.nz/

 A great idea we had for the opening of our new building ( wish you could all see it) was book display box art .

We used our boxes we sent out to schools with their books to display book reviews and book cover designs done by school students.

Great idea for book weeks !!

Sharing with you some latest happenings on Mangaia

Tangike kotou e te au taeake. It's been awhile since I last visited our blogsite. So I thought I'll share with you a few of what is happening here on Mangaia.

As the classes has been finding information on the history of Mangaia School, our Principal thought that the library is the best place for students to have access to this information is in the library where it is available whenever students wants them. Interesting enough, parents who visit the library find this information very enriching as a number of them have loss track of the history of the School.

Last November Croc Coulters visited us with the Perfoming Arts Advisor, Charlotte Cousins and Annie O'nielle to introduce junk to funk in the school. During that time Croc took an art class which they named The Akatikitiki Artwork with some of our senior students as well as members of the community who are interested in improving their art skills. Their completed work is now being displayed in our library as you ca see in the photo on a ledge made by our senior 1 students during a HRD capentry workshop held here in the school.

We are fortunate enough to be the closest island to see the July 11th total solar eclipse so I thought of sharing what information we have found from various websites about eclipses. You may not be able to read them as the point of this is to share with you what we are doing here.

I hope that you are all enjoying your work in the library as well as creating new stuff all the time. One thing I'm finding hard is to finalise a library plan for my procedures manual as each time I think this is the final one, I think of changing a few things. So at the moment there is no set plan.

Good luck to you all and hope to see your libraries on our blogsite in the near future

Enuamanu School Library makeover Jan 2010

Spot the before and after photos of Barry's library transformation! Gone is the uninviting, forgotten dirty space with no face out shelving, no library computerised system and old, falling apart out of date books.

Amazing transformation from a uninviting dirty space with concrete floor, mouldy, out of date books , dirty shelves with no face out shelving and no computers to boot.

Photos from library celebration at Mangaia School- Nov 2009

Kia orana,

Takau took these photos to mark the first year in operation for the library at Mangaia School. Looks like it was a joyful celebration!

Mangaia Library's celebration

News from Anna at Titikaveka College

Things in our library are going very well. We have opened our
library and students have already begun taking books out. It wasn't a big
opening but Ani was sure to thank you all for your contribution and help.
Our library is looking good and the librarians are happy and on to it.

October update from the Principal at Mangaia School

The library is ticking along really well. Whenever there is an event Takau does research and makes up displays to high light the event. The students and staff are really enjoying the displays. To give you an example. With the World netball
Under 21 games in Rarotonga she had a netball hoop and information about each country competing. Then with the Pacific Mini Games she did something
similar but included props for each of the events like volley balls, rugby
balls, discus, shotputs etc. She had a map of the Pacific with markers on it
pointing to the countries and flags of each country around the map. It
looked great.

The current notice board is about Tsunamis, in particular the one that hit
Samoa. We printed some picture of the damage etc

The next display will be about wind generators. We have purchased a small
wind generator which we will install on one of the new blocks. It will run
all the lights and maybe fans.

Also we have displays each week for the class that is taking assembly. "Down
Memory Lane" We find old class photos of the students, like when they were
in preschool, and display them. The kids love it.

In terms of books. Takau and her team have set up a reserve system for the
new books, and others too. The new books are displayed for 1 week before
they can be borrowed and Takau has found out how to block the issuing of
these books during this time. (ie zero days to borrow)
Books are being mended as necessary.

Takau has a small library group that meets every Tuesday for 1 1/2 hours.
They come up with ideas about improving the library, they make displays ad
help keep the library exciting and tidy.

On November 3rd we are having a birthday celebration as it is one year since
we first started using the barcode and MUSAC system. More details later.

During the last holidays, which were 3 1/2 weeks long Takau opened the
library twice a week for 4 hours. So students and community members could
borrow books. We had a good response.

That's all I have time for now. The library is great!!