Schools Library Service

The Service Offer

Subscription Services  Buy as You Need Services

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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 children’s book is £8, but borrowing from us gives an average price in most cases of less than £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 literature to support your curriculum.
• Our service helps academies 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 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 learning books available that provide an alternative to the purchase of ever-more expensive books.  Our stock is carefully selected to provide materials of high quality, breadth and relevance to academies. We offer a variety of subscription packages providing access to books, artefacts, whiteboard resources and library advice and can also provide bespoke packages upon request that provide you with a completely tailored service to meet your individual academy needs.

The Effectiveness of our Service

• 98% of our training course receive wholly positive feedback
• 100% of our books and project boxes are delivered to you when we promise we will
• In 2013/14 we supplied 47,024 books in project boxes and a further 22,134 fiction books were exchanged.
• Over 1500 artefacts were delivered to schools from storysacks and photopacks to whiteboard resources and mediaeval chain mail!
• We save you money – for example, on a subscription costing £1796 you save £5890 on the purchase price of the equivalent number of books.

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 school.