Schools Library Service (SLS)
The Service Offer
Subscription Services
Buy as You Need Services
Subscription services
This subscription offered to all schools provides you with:
- 12 learning resource boxes per year.
- A one hour advisory visit
- Telephone advice and assistance
- Discounts on book awards and book purchases.
We also run a series of training courses provided at a discount to subscribers for library practitioners and termly network meetings for secondary school librarians.
This subscription offered to all schools provides you with:
- 250 reading books per year.
- A one hour advisory visit
- Telephone advice and assistance
- Discounts on book awards and book purchases.
We also run a series of training courses provided at a discount to subscribers for library practitioners and termly network meetings for secondary school librarians.
This subscription for nursery, primary and special schools provides you with:
- 9 learning resource boxes per year
- 150 reading books per year
- A one hour advisory visit
- Telephone advice and assistance
- Discounts on book awards and book purchases.
We also run a series of training courses provided at a discount to subscribers for library practitioners and termly network meetings for secondary school librarians.
This subscription for nursery, primary and special schools provides you with:
- 21 learning resource boxes per year
- 350 reading books per year
- A one hour advisory visit
- Telephone advice and assistance
- Discounts on book awards and book purchases.
We also run a series of training courses provided at a discount to subscribers for library practitioners and termly network meetings for secondary school librarians.
This subscription for nursery, primary and special schools provides you with:
- 27 learning resource boxes per year
- 450 reading books per year
- A one hour advisory visit
- Telephone advice and assistance
- Discounts on book awards and book purchases.
We also run a series of training courses provided at a discount to subscribers for library practitioners and termly network meetings for secondary school librarians.
This subscription for nursery, primary and special schools provides you with:
- 42 learning resource boxes per year
- 600 reading books per year
- A one hour advisory visit
- Telephone advice and assistance
- Discounts on book awards and book purchases.
We also run a series of training courses provided at a discount to subscribers for library practitioners and termly network meetings for secondary school librarians.
This subscription for nursery, primary and special schools provides you with:
- 51 learning resource boxes per year
- 800 reading books per year
- A one hour advisory visit
- Telephone advice and assistance
- Discounts on book awards and book purchases.
We also run a series of training courses provided at a discount to subscribers for library practitioners and termly network meetings for secondary school librarians.
This subscription for secondary schools provides you with:
- 10 learning resource boxes per year
- 650 reading books per year
- A one hour advisory visit
- Telephone advice and assistance
- Discounts on book awards and book purchases.
We also run a series of training courses provided at a discount to subscribers for library practitioners and termly network meetings for secondary school librarians.
This subscription for secondary schools provides you with:
- 12 learning resource boxes per year
- 800 reading books per year
- A one hour advisory visit
- Telephone advice and assistance
- Discounts on book awards and book purchases.
We also run a series of training courses provided at a discount to subscribers for library practitioners and termly network meetings for secondary school librarians..
You can add additional learning resource boxes to your subscription to enable you to tailor your purchase to your school's individual needs.
You can add additional blocks of 100 reading books to your subscription to enable you to tailor your purchase to your school's individual needs.
We can tailor our service to meet your individual requirements in school. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
The Schools Library Service offers academies the easiest way to support curriculum and reading for pleasure needs. By borrowing resources from our vast range of up-to-date and stimulating books and artefacts, we believe we can bring you the greatest return on investment possible. The average cost of a new book with a jacket is £8, but borrowing from us gives an average price of £2. We therefore believe our service offers you unparalleled value for money in delivering high quality resources to every learner.
Benefits
- We save you money – it is cheaper to borrow books from us than purchase them directly.
- We save you time – our professionals research and assess the books we provide ensuring the books are up to date, relevant and of the highest quality. This gives you more time to focus on lessons and to plan how to use books and artefacts to support your curriculum.
- Our resources last longer because paperbacks have sturdy jackets.
- Our service helps schools to improve learning resources and respond quickly to curriculum demands.
Why Buy our Service
Sourcing, selecting and buying books and then arranging for delivery and collection is a time-consuming process and buying high-quality books for your academy can be costly. Our service offers the most cost-effective way for you to access a rich supply of titles. Borrowing books and resources in bulk ensures you always have up to date fiction and class topic books available to supplement and enhance your purchased books. Our stock is carefully selected afresh for each box to provide materials of high quality and breadth that support the national curriculum. We also add an artefact into most curriculum boxes at no extra charge.
Our newly designed subscriptions provide you with greater choice over access to books, artefacts, whiteboard resources and library advice so that you can choose what is right for you. If you don’t find the bands suit your requirements, let us know and we can provide a completely tailored service to meet your individual school needs.
The Effectiveness of our Service
- We save you money –a typical subscription could save you around £5000 on the purchase price of the equivalent number of books
- 100% of our books and project boxes are delivered to you when we promise we will
- 100% of our training courses this year have received wholly positive feedback
Our Specialisms
- Curriculum learning resources
- Reading for pleasure resources
- Library management
- Library stock maintenance and refurbishment advice
- Training
Tailored Services
Our services are flexible and can be tailored to meet your individual needs – please contact us if you would like to discuss arranging a tailored package for your academy.
