Are your students ready for university?
25 November 2017
All universities have extensive catalogues of electronic databases, and once students arrive, they are expected to have the skill to...
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Managing change…
24 July 2017
How does the school librarian respond and adapt to the needs of students in a world dominated and driven by...
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Reading School eResources Festival
23 June 2017
To raise awareness of the range of e-resources available and how students can access them, Reading School’s Learning Resource Centre...
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5 tips for getting your secondary students to search smarter
22 June 2017
Fed up with seeing work based on ‘one-click’ research? Nicholas Harris has some suggestions for developing your secondary students’ online...
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Customer Survey Results 2017
23 April 2017
Our recent customer survey was was an important activity for JCS, the first survey we’ve undertaken, and we appreciate all...
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Part 2: Hints and tips for public libraries – promoting your e-resources by social media
21 April 2017
Welcome to the second blog post in our public libraries series on promoting your e-resources. With the current financial climate,...
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Understanding the context of a novel using historical newspapers
20 April 2017
There is so much that students can learn from historical newspapers. From how novels were received at the time, eyewitness...
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Case study: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
20 April 2017
In this blog, To Kill a Mockingbird and Gale Historical Newspapers for Secondary Schools show how historical newspapers can support the teaching and learning...
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