The school library plays a key role in supporting student learning and achievement, through providing access to a wide range of resources in our diverse and fast-changing 21st century information landscape.

Developing your library is divided into four parts:

• Managing your library offers guidance on all aspects of managing your school library, along with links to research and to spotlight examples illustrating good practice.
• Tools and guides provides direct access to a wide range of guides on most aspects of managing your school library. We also include a number of worked examples and blank templates, inviting you to adapt these to the needs of your school.
• Libraries and student achievement focuses on how the school library can help students learn, through using an outcomes approach based on evidence, with links to current New Zealand and international research.
• School library futures looks ahead to future scenarios, as new learning environments evolve to meet the needs of 21st century learners. Content in this section explores how the school library will continue to develop and adapt, with links to educational theory and research.

The sub-sections within Managing your Library are broadly aligned to the four ‘enabling’ Guiding Principles in The school library and learning in the information landscape: guidelines for New Zealand schools. The two central principles, Reading and Information Literacy, are expanded further in two main sections of this website, Creating Readers and 21st Century Literacy and Inquiry .

The four ‘enabling’ principles of Service, Access, Information resources, and Place are reflected here under Purpose and Library Team (Service), Library online environment (Access), Your collection (Information resources) and Library physical environment (Place).