School Library A Good

Language groups
Different learners
Learning strategies
Personnel groups
Pupils and staff
Cultures
Fact and Fiction
Ethics
A good school library
is a meeting point
The past and the future
Cross-curricular themes and subjects
Pre-primary education and school
Clubs and afternoon activities
School and library
Student association
Home and school
Guidance counselling
A school library has a special character that differs from that
of other libraries.
• The starting point for the activity is the curriculum – not
the general sophisticating service of the municipality.
• A school library is a part of the school – not an independent
unit.
• The location within the school building should be as central
as possible – not at a distance.
• The target groups are the pupils and the teachers – not
the whole population of the area.
• The library activity reaches tho whole age group – not only
the ones who voluntarily seek it.
• Working methods are pedagogically justified – not service
oriented.
• The library is used by the whole class, as a group,
independently – seldom optionally
• The material is specific and limited – not extensive and
aiming at high rate of borrowing.
• In developing the school library and the school’s information
and communications technology we receive fringe benefits
that all belong under the umbrella term shared information
strategy.
– The special nature of the school library needs to be
acknowledged as a part of the pedagogic development of the
school.
A Good School Library