Razzle dazzle

Creating interactive library spaces

Abstract

Creating an interactive and engaging school library environment for your school community is an important prerequisite to establishing a creditable identity with teaching staff, which in turn, leads to opportunities to develop collaborative curriculum programs. The library and its personnel must be perceived as a hub for learning and part of the core business of the school by the whole community, including senior administration, teachers, students and parents. Such an environment demonstrates the value adding to the curriculum, literacy, information literacy and student learning outcomes that occur when professional library staff are part of the staffing equation in a school.