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Some ideas on how to keep school libraries open during covid times. 

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Some ideas on how to keep school libraries open during covid times. 

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- The library remains open this year despite covid (SJI) - students sit singly, and table-tops are sanitized multiple times a day. The books are also sanitized. This can be done with a sanitizing spray gun using a disinfectant solution.

- not allowing overcrowding, more work for library staff but they feel better that students remain to have access to school libraries.

- multiple bottles of hand-sanitizers at multiple corners. Students should sanitize their hands before they touch the books.

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Weeding and collection curation - ongoing

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Weeding and collection curation - ongoing

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need programming to follow up and promote the titles to the students to ensure that the new titles are indeed borrowed out.

Provide dual track - have both print and digital books. Print and paste the QR codes to e-magazines at the magazine racks.

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Teacher influence and teacher recommendations

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Teacher influence and teacher recommendations

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Programming to get students into the library to borrow the books out. 

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Programming to get students into the library to borrow the books out. 

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booker prize recommendations in a library corner. Invite a teacher to pick a book he/she read to share on the book. Lights are switched off/ dimmed, and teacher will read from the book. Students allowed to bring their snacks, but these are usually the teacher's own lit student fans.

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Get EL teachers to bring the books out into the class library. 

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Get EL teachers to bring the books out into the class library. 

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Teachers will select and curate books and bring them out to the students. Especially relevant to Y1 to Y4 students in full schools.

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bring the books out into a school library mobile cart in the common areas? 

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bring the books out into a school library mobile cart in the common areas? 

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e.g. canteen, where students congregate

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restricted entry into school library, restricted hours. students have to book their timings to restrict inter-class mingling. How to manage this, or overcome this?

JC students - they need a space to study (air con). Students need to book the seats to come into the library to study.

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Reach out to MOE School Library generic email for support on curating print collections for 17 & 18 year olds, especially series. 

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Reach out to MOE School Library generic email for support on curating print collections for 17 & 18 year olds, especially series. 

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Collaborate with clubs & societies to host buzzworthy events.

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Collaborate with clubs & societies to host buzzworthy events.

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Move mindsets to not just look at libraries as a quiet space. There could be some parts of the library for quiet uninterrupted work, but other parts used for buzz worthy activities.

e.g. Character festivals, character parades

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Currently, the Library has put up a touch screen monitor to showcase & promote the NLB eBooks.

What the Library will be doing is to involve our Student Librarians to curate titles of their interest to increase further interest in borrowing the ebooks.

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Other than NLB tie-up, are there viable ways for E-books borrowing?

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Have a greater selection of manga series

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Have departments offer reading list based on titles available in the library. For dormant readers, it would be a challenge getting them to read. So maybe bite-sized intro pieces to draw them in?

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Are libraries becoming places for revision only? 

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Are libraries becoming places for revision only? 

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Libraries a place for revision but also a space for other purposes - a repository for books.

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Bring the library to the students. Go to the canteen or study areas. Have librarians to look after the books/magazines and perhaps students may be encouraged to read

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Bring the library to the students. Go to the canteen or study areas. Have librarians to look after the books/magazines and perhaps students may be encouraged to read

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Change the mindset that people have of the library as a solemn and quiet place for studying. Organise some reading-related events (subject to prevailing SMMs) to make the library a more 'exciting' place for the students to visit. Set up a cozy reading corner.

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more visually enticing book displays with newer books to attract students

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Re-look how the books is arranged for fiction collection
- currently arranges in running alphabetical order of Author Sir name
- Change to genres arrangement

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Maybe bring students to the library during lessons as part of a lesson activity. Bring the library to them? (e.g. create small community libraries around school or in classrooms)

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We have the MT units doing book reviews every term

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We have the MT units doing book reviews every term

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A manga or storybook section is a good idea to draw hesitant students into the Library. Just like how commercial bookstores can draw customers. The collection in the Library should not be all academic.

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The idea of having a separate shelf for award-winning titles/bestsellers is useful. Currently the library is experiencing (post-) covid stress, that the shelves had been brought to the sides to accommodate space for staff/students. May need to adjust that next year.

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To use other activities to entice students into the library. E.g. Mini workshops, STEM activities etc.

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All the suggestion given in the video can be done. But not sure if the students will still want to borrow books out to read. 

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All the suggestion given in the video can be done. But not sure if the students will still want to borrow books out to read. 

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Change the setting of the library once a year. Bring in some fresh ideas in spaces in the library

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Change the setting of the library once a year. Bring in some fresh ideas in spaces in the library