Good Keen Librarian

  As part of our activities for Aotearoa New Zealand School Library Week I decided to survey our students to find out "what do you like...

On Friday at 11am, I was standing in front of our staffroom looking out over our entire teaching staff and wondering why I suggested that I ...

The sorting process begins Two years ago, we introduced a partial rearrangement of our picture book shelves .  This has been highly successf...

  I think we can all agree it was a challenging year, so I thought I would share five positive things that happened in 2021. 1.  We got a sc...

In Term 3, I'm excited to be trialling a new initiative aimed at motivating some of our reluctant readers.   I'd been thinking about...

Milo after a hard morning's work greeting teachers This week was the first week that I brought Milo into school every day that I work (I...

Last year, my husband wanted a puppy and I was not so sure.  Then I remembered therapy/support dogs, which are dogs that work in schools (an...

Last year, we started to have overcrowding problems in our picture book area, making it harder for our students to browse easily. ...

In 2018, I did a post listing each of the top 15 books I'd read that year.  This time, I decided to do something different.  I wanted t...

This year, one of the options our student librarians had to get their Gold Library Award was to make a book review zine.  I brought ...