The range of guides, worked examples and templates offered here have been rewritten and updated.  They provide a range of practical tools to help school library teams throughout New Zealand manage your school library and develop your library collection.

You will find worked examples and blank templates attached in Word and PDF formats at the end of relevant guides.

These tools can be grouped into the following broad areas: 

• Managing your school library
• Developing and managing your school library collection
• Providing access to information:  your integrated library system (ILS) - sometimes referred to in schools as a ‘library management system’ or ‘automated library system’ - and a guide to cataloguing your library collection
• The library as ‘place’ - the physical environment

Here is a list of guides - many of which have blank templates and worked examples to help you.

Managing your school library

• Managing your school library:  guiding statement
• Job descriptions
• Performance appraisal
• Student Librarians
• School Library Handbook (replacing the Procedures Manual)
• Annual Report
• Preparing for an ERO visit

 Developing and managing your school library collection

• Collections 1: Collection development cycle (including diagram)
• Collections 2: School Community Profile template
• Collections 3: Guiding statement (including Challenged resources form)
• Collections 4: Assessing your library collection
• Collections 5: Weeding guide
• Collections 6:  Collection requirements plan  (including buying plan)
• Collections 7: Library budget guide
• Collections 8: Selection guide (Including list of selection guides - reviewing journals and websites)
• Collections 10: Reference resources
• Collections 11: Magazines for school libraries
• Collections 12: Publishers of Māori resources

Providing access to information

• Cataloguing your library and multimedia resources
• Changing your integrated library system
• Integrated library systems (ILS)
  • ILS checklist [PDF]
  • ILS glossary of terms
• Optimising your integrated library system
• RFID - Radio Frequency Identification

The library as ‘place’ - the physical environment

• Building or remodelling the library (2007)
  • Architectural brief - template [PDF]
  • Shelving requirements [PDF] - updated 2011
• School Library Suppliers list, with contact details [DOC] - updated Oct 2011
• Earthquake or flood - impact on school libraries

Further guides will be added to these lists.  We warmly invite feedback from teachers and school library teams, especially if you see a gap in coverage that you suggest we might cover.