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Schools Library Service
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Schools Library Service
Bannerdale Centre, 125 Carter Knowle Road, Sheffield S7 2EX
Tel 0114 250 6840
Fax 0114 250 6841
Sheffield Schools Library Service is a vibrant and proactive specialist provider of the most up to date materials for teachers and educationalists. We have access to all newly published children’s materials supporting both curriculum needs and reading for pleasure.
Our aim is for quality, cost effectiveness (as book prices increase) and easy access to our service. We pride ourselves on a friendly, helpful and speedy response to your needs.
We have a well-earned reputation for our specialist advisory work in schools, including the planning, maintenance and development of effective library and learning resource areas.
We also provide opportunities to be involved in a range of exciting reading development initiatives and promotion projects where children meet authors and illustrators including the Sheffield Children’s Book Award,and YARN Review magazine, all of which help to stimulate imagination and enhance skills.
2008 is the 2nd National Year of Reading, and we are making it special with a full programme of events and activities to celebrate reading and involve all schools in encouraging children and their families to become enthusiastic lifelong readers.
How Schools Will Benefit From The Service
- Excellent borrowing entitlements from quality collections
- No limit to the number of times you can exchange items
- Access to short term loans of display, exhibition and themed collections for special events and projects
- Free delivery and collection of the project boxes to and from your school
- Independent, professional advice on improving the performance of your library and learning resource area, including OFSTED preparation
- Advice on effective selection and use of children’s books and other materials
- INSET programme
- Significant discounts on books and other resources available on our visits to specialist library suppliers
- Access to a service that will listen and respond to your comments and needs whenever practicable
What Our Customers Say
Invaluable! couldn't work without you. (Teacher, Greystones School)
I love using this service! The children greatly benefit from the resource, staff are very friendly. (Teacher, Whiteways School)
Comments from Sheffield Children's Book Awards participants:
Raises awareness of what "real authors" look like! Inspiring children to feel they too can become writers.
Children involved have been very keen and all these were children with little encouragement from home.
Encourages children to become "critical" readers.
Working in a school I appreciate how the Sheffield Children’s Book Award encourages students to read new and interesting literature. If you tell them that it's a Book Award book they're more likely to want to read it, the power of the Award! All the students who took part from our school this year really enjoyed the whole process of reading, reviewing and attending the awards."
(Librarian, Secondary School)
“I endorse the excellent work of the Schools Library Service, it goes from strength to strength”
(Jonathan Crossley-Holland, Ex-Executive Director, Children & Young People’s Directorate)
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