To raise awareness of the range of e-resources available and how students can access them, Reading School’s Learning Resource Centre (LRC) ran an e-resources Festival on 21 June.
10 stallholders (pupil librarians), in charge of
To raise awareness of the range of e-resources available and how students can access them, Reading School’s Learning Resource Centre (LRC) ran an e-resources Festival on 21 June.
10 stallholders (pupil librarians), in charge of promoting their resource, wowed passing students with information about the amazing e-resources the LRC has to offer. Unfortunately, due to the brilliant weather and the subsequent glare, laptops could not be used but the pupil librarians used posters, and information they had previously prepared to advocate for their resource. Plus music, sweets and freebies added to the enjoyment of the Festival.
Pupils could collect a stamp for a prize draw once they had spoken to a stallholder about the resource, 60 pupils did this – though probably double that number visited the Festival. On top of that, pupils went off and spoke to friends about the resources and staff came to chat too, so the LRC are sure there will be an after effect.
The Festival was just phase one of a larger plan to get everyone in the school to make more use of the e-resources available to them. The aim is to g