Staff Feedback on FOS Library

Here is a summary of staff feedback on the current library at Fendalton School. 

Plus:

• Shelving caters well.
  
• Heaps of resources for kids and teachers.
  
• More comfortable cushions, etc. now.
  
• System for issuing seems better (less stressful to use).
  
• Desna – knowledge, initiative, passion, how she spends time with individuals and shares this back with others. Thinking ahead all the time.
  
• Variety of seating beanbags, chairs.
  
• Personnel on hand, Desna helpful when asked for advise.
  
• People display.
  
• High quality and quantity of books.
  
• Vibrant colours.
  
• Open and well used at lunchtimes.
  
• Variety of things for students to do eg games.
  

Minus:

• Not enough natural lighting (eg. skylights). People to walk past and want to go in.
  
• Layout isn’t friendly.
  
• Library can be ‘booked up’ which can make it inflexible for impromptu visits.
  
• Heating.
  
• Resources going out without issue is an ongoing problem.
  
• Working area for Desna to process books.
  
• Not a very physically obvious part of the school (eg. location, front door).
  
• Very little room for displays.
  
• It is an old building (a ‘box’).
  
• Needs more light.
  
• Nowhere to put wet shoes on wet day.
  
• Hard for more than one class to use resources.
  
• Not user friendly.
  
• Shelves not moveable.
  
• Students need access to modern equipment eg laptops.
  
• It is a book place.
  

Delta (Change):

• At least 1:6 ratio of people: computers.
  
• More flexible space (eg. sunken area which can isolate kids reading from a class that visits, etc.).
  
• Specific teaching of research skills – freeing up staff to do this.
  
• Employing someone else to help Desna (eg. administration tasks, etc.).
  
• Putting different types of resources/learning into different types of spaces (eg. a ‘snugly place’, a podcasting place,
  
• Mezzanine floor for teacher resources.
  
• Café/coffee maker.
  
• Parent reading material/area.
  
• Little alcoves to sit and think.
  
• Pit or corner to sit with class.
  
• Juniors & middle book areas segregated to lesson the searching for different topics, ie. all the fiction and non-fiction for juniors in one area instead of all over the library intermixed with senior books.
  
• Classes rostered in to do displays.
  
• Big books and Big poem cards to be hung up and labelled for easy access.
  
• Magnetic stories.
  
• Whiteboard for questioning sessions.
  
• Puppets shows and books to share with class, month about, etc.
  
• Photocopier for teachers to use at time.
  
• Computers in library and accessible.
  
• Couches, shaped cushions.
  
• Child based displays, room for displays.
  
• Display new books on show but can’t be taken out yet – new releases.
  
• Needs to be an integration of books and other information technology.
  
• Needs more space, nooks and crannies to accommodate this.
  
• Needs to be more cosy, snuggly, an ambience.
  
• Would be nice to have different types of learning and resources eg books on tape, books on computers, other sources of info.
  
• First language books.
  
• We would like Desna more involved with students because of her wealth of knowledge.
  
• Would like active facilitation of multiple users doing different things.
  
• Computers shifted out of the back space and included in the main library
  
• More use at lunchtime.