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Engaging and empowering school libraries is a podcast that aims to raise the profile of school libraries by talking about topics that are current across education and teaching. We talk about issues that impact school libraries and invite guests to come along and speak on selected topics keeping our chats lively, engaging and current. We hope you enjoy listening. Find more CPD for school librarians and teachers here https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/
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Saturday Jan 13, 2024
FOSIL, Education and School Libraries (7)
Saturday Jan 13, 2024
Saturday Jan 13, 2024
In this episode, Darryl and I continue our conversation about Douglas Knight’s ideas about there being two major and unique functions of a library, regardless of type. These two functions are:-
- First, it makes possible meetings of mind and idea which are not limited by our normal boundaries of time, space, and social or economic level.
- To say this is to suggest the second great function of a library. It is the institution in our society which allows and encourages the development, the extension of ideas -- not their passive absorption, but their active generation. … The technical means of his encounter may be a record, a tape, a film, a print-out or -- most radical of all -- a book. Libraries are not bounded by means; they will and should employ any means to achieve their ends.
Clarification on non-fiction to fiction ratio: NF to F ratio should rise from 50% NF to 50% F through 66% NF to 33% F to 75% NF to 25% F as children move from Primary through Secondary (Darryl)
Link to Douglas Knight document can be found here https://bit.ly/3ShxMSK
Podcast - Non-fiction collections in school libraries: Do we still need them?https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/podcast/episode/9d8adc04/non-fiction-collections-in-school-libraries-do-we-still-need-them
FOSIL forum link -https://fosil.org.uk/forums/
Engaging and Empowering School Libraries Membership -https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/aboutmembership
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