The Guidelines are intended to be a practical support to everyone concerned with establishing, maintaining and developing dynamic primary school libraries across the UK: Headteachers, teachers, governing bodies, primary school librarians/library coordinators and Schools Library Services.
The Guidelines address the library needs of pupils between 4 and 11 years as independent learners and imaginative readers; embedding the school library in the teaching and learning culture of the whole school. The Guidelines also recognise that the use of information and communication technologies is integral to every aspect of primary school library provision.
CILIP worked with key librarians throughout the UK to produce this document. The principles and practices recommended, read together with CILIP’s Guidelines for Secondary School Libraries, cover the library needs of pupils throughout their school career – from primary to secondary school – and form an essential support to the lifelong learning process.
The terminology used in the Guidelines is generic and the Guidelines have been distributed throughout the UK. However,
primary schools in Scotland should use the Guidelines as useful background information and should refer primarily to
Standards for School Library Resource Services in Scotland: a Framework for Developing Services, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) 1999 and Taking a Closer Look at the School Library Resource Centre: Self Evaluation using Performance Indicators, Scottish Consultative Council for the Curriculum [et al].
Original Working Group
Sue Adler (Education Library Service, Islington), Trish Botten (The Library Association), Chris Brown (former primary Headteacher),
Pam Dix (Education Library Service, Islington), Gill Harris (Schools Library Service, Tower Hamlets),
Susan Heyes (Schools Library Service, West Sussex), Sue Jones (Schools Library Service, Hertfordshire),
Ray Swan (Education Library Consultant), Glenys Willars (Library Services for Education, Leicestershire and Leicester City)
Original Focus Group
The Association of Senior Children’s and Education Librarians (ASCEL), The Library Association Youth Libraries Committee,
The Library Association Youth Libraries Group (YLG), The Library Association School Libraries Group (SLG), the School Library Association (SLA),
the Scottish Library Association, the Welsh Library Association and the Northern Ireland Branch of The Library Association
Original Consultative Group
Peter Beauchamp, Chief Library Adviser,
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Ceris Bergen, Head of National Grid for Learning Policy Support Unit,
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTa)
Tony Kirwan and Diane Wilson,
The Study Support National Evaluation and Development Programme at the National Youth Agency
Pauline Linton, Curriculum Division,
The Department for Education and Employment
Revision
Jonathan Douglas, Youth and School Libraries Adviser,
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
Name:
Primary School Library Guidelines
Format:
PDF
Size:
369K
Last updated:
15 May 2008
Revised 2002 ISBN 0 9543792 09