School Library Group Scotland.
Joined November 2015
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6 May 2025
🚨New blog post alert 🚨
Rights Respecting Reads:
SLGS chair Graham Fairweather shares how his school library project has put a reading focus on human rights education.
cilips.org.uk/slgs-rights-re…
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6 May 2025
He also includes free Canva templates for his booklists & posters - ready to be adapted to other settings.
What books would you add to these lists?
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Have you signed up for our author event with @WHusseyAuthor this week? A free event for school and youth librarians. Having just finished his fantastic new book The Boy I Love, we have to say it's not to missed! eventbrite.co.uk/e/slg-scotl…...
ALT A promo poster for an online librarian event with William Hussey on Thursday 27th Feb 2025 at 4pm. Sign up link in the post.
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SLG Scotland retweeted
17 Dec 2024
CILIPS are thrilled to be speaking out for school libraries @ScotParl this week, setting out our stall of ABCs (plus Ds and Es) on why school librarians deserve support, recognition and protection. Engage with the evidence here and please say hello, MSPs! cilips.org.uk/school-library…
ALT A poster on why school libraries are essential to attainment.
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2 Dec 2024
Such a brilliant project!
2 Dec 2024
Have a look and find out all about our community reading project: on the CILIP Scotland website for
@SLGScotland.
cilips.org.uk/slgs-intergene…
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28 Nov 2024
Have you signed up for our fun and friendly Christmas quiz yet? tinyurl.com/2njza887
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SLG Scotland retweeted
6 Nov 2024
This has been reshared a lot recently. Many #schoollibrarians are sharing stats which show that reading in their schools is not in decline-quite the reverse. The evidence is clear: having a librarian in school can build and embed a reading culture. Follow us to find out more.
5 Nov 2024
⚠️Reading enjoyment has fallen across all ages.⚠️
The sharpest decline is among pupils aged 11-14 - from 40.4% in 2023 to 30.7% in 2024. As children transition to secondary school, their reading engagement dips - a trend that is worsening.
Learn more: literacytrust.org.uk/researc…
ALT Reading enjoyment has declined across all age groups. Ages 11 - 14 have seen the steepest drop - from 40.3% in 2023 to 30.7% in 2024.
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SLG Scotland retweeted
5 Nov 2024
As @frankcottrell_b says in the article, the solution is in our hands. Stop closing libraries. Retain school librarians and employ many more. Fund author visits to schools. Publishers, stop throwing cash at celebrities and focus instead on engaging young readers. We can fix this.
5 Nov 2024
Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
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5 Nov 2024
You can’t have reading for pleasure without easy access to books. All primary schools need a school library and librarian
800 libraries have been closed due to spending cuts since 2010 — a fifth of the UK's total.
And many of those that remain have seen their opening hours cuts.
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SLG Scotland retweeted
23 Oct 2024
Recent research confirms that the public see digital services as no substitute for physical library spaces, with school libraries and school librarians likewise vital for creating inclusive and sustainable safe spaces. Midlothian friends, please RT and complete the consultation:
23 Oct 2024
Hi hope you are both well? @SeanJMcNamara1 and @GGallerina Midlothian are proposing cutting the School Libraries and some of the services for the public ones could you please retweet the consultation thank you on this link midlothiancouncil.citizenspa… thank you
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SLG Scotland retweeted
23 Oct 2024
“We're looking at a kind of happiness recession among our children.”
The decline in parents reading and playing with their children is “catastrophic”, Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce tells #TimesRadio.
@FrankCottrell_B | @RosieWright99
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24 Sep 2024
Said by no school librarian, ever.
Not loving behaviour during wet intervals and lunchtimes? Check out our latest #AskAlex post for some advice.
cilips.org.uk/ask-alex-raine…
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20 Sep 2024
This is good timing ahead of our Vent Event on behaviour.
In the latest @uksla The School Librarian Magazine: Behaviour in the School Library @Sue_Cowley .
#TSL.
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17 Sep 2024
RT @jeremieSNP: 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Earlier today, I spoke to the P&J about the importance of inclusive books in Moray school libraries, in the face o…
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SLG Scotland retweeted
13 Sep 2024
Nominations are now open for the 2025 @CarnegieMedals!
CILIP members can nominate one title per Medal that meets the Awards criteria. Learn more and submit your nominations by 27th September. 📚🏅
carnegies.co.uk/nominations/
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SLG Scotland retweeted
16 Sep 2024
Join us on 8th Oct for a free online webinar on practices to support teenage reading for pleasure - what do teens say is important? This webinar for teachers, librarians, and anyone else interested in supporting teenage reading! Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-…
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SLG Scotland retweeted
16 Sep 2024
Our first Advocacy Newsletter for our sector partners, friends and advocates is out today! 🗞️
Sharing all of our advocacy outputs, projects and tools we've used or created to become the best library advocates! 🥳💪
Anyone is welcome to subscribe here: cilips.org.uk/about/cilips-n…
ALT Blue background with white text contained in a white circle. The text reads, "CILIPS Advocacy Newsletter." with the white CILIPS logo and a hand in the middle holding books and a library card.
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16 Sep 2024
Whether you're struggling with behaviour management in your school library, or have it nailed, sign-up for our informal networking event next week and share with colleagues who fully understand where you're coming from. Let the hive mind help!
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