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Advocacy, impact and evidence
Advocacy, impact and evidence-based practice are familiar terms in school librarianship. In this section, we look at these three different yet related terms or tools and see how they may be helpful for evaluation...
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Security system
Security systems have been associated with libraries for many years, especially in the higher education and public library sectors. Here, we focus on the issue of whether a security system is optimal...
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Communicating, marketing, promoting
What is your message or story? To whom do you communicate the story of the DP library/ian? Here, we focus on strategies and aspects of communication, marketing and promoting the library to the DP school...
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Librarian management role
In this section, we focus on foundational aspects of the librarian's management of the DP library. They are: IB Diploma librarian and library School librarians "are usually budget holders for collections...
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Moving
Moving the contents of a school library - collections, resources, equipment, furniture - is a complex operation. Moving a physical library doesn't happen every day, but occurs more often than we may think....
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Space for individual student use
Individual DP student use of the school library may be considered a feature of a student's DP experience. The purpose may be presumed to be for study or work but may be for other purposes. Nevertheless,...
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Presentation, guiding and display
Presentation, guiding and display in the DP library are integral in enabling library visitors to become users or 'readers', to use a traditional library term. Here we look at factors which can help make...
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Library space - Ideal Libraries
IB Diploma library Places "Since libraries aid and extend learning and teaching, they have to aid and extend to all learning spaces, classrooms, performance spaces, virtual platforms or other places where...
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What happens in the DP Library?
IB Diploma library Ideal Libraries: a guide for schools. International Baccalaureate Organization, 2018. One headteacher of a school that offers the IBDP was asked about their views on school libraries...
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One DP librarian's experiences
My approach: here is a personal account of one librarian reflecting on the role of periodicals, magazines and newspapers in a DP focussed library IB Diploma library Like many school librarians, I've...