Doncaster Libraries

Services to schools

Doncaster Schools Library Service offers a comprehensive loan and advisory service to all LEA schools in the area.

Loan Service
Subscribing schools are entitled to the following loan services:

• Loan Collection
  Schools are allocated 50 books per class.  This collection is lent for one year and is delivered and collected by the Schools Mobile Library.

• Project Loans
  Project loans consist of 25 items, which are lent for one term. They are delivered at the start of term and collected at the end of term.

As well as providing resources to schools via the school mobile or in project loan collections, the Schools Library Service also offer the following.

Advisory Service

• General advice on your library
• Producing a library policy
• Computerizing your library
• Identifying priorities and gaps in your stock
• Preparing your school library for OFSTED

Book Promotion

• Book Days- storytelling and activities

• Book Promotion Boxes

• Literacy Workshops including looking at different fiction genres and authors

• What's in the book -(Character, plot, settings, authors etc)

• Book Groups

• Pupil Librarians

• Boy's Into Books

• Working with children who have special needs

• Working with teachers on the type of books available and familiarising then with new or different authors

• Talking to parent groups about books and libraries

• Advice on books

Add-on Services
Transform your library

• Weeding out old and damaged stock
• Classify non-fiction
• Re-organise
• Computerise your library
• Get ready for OFSTED
• We do the work so you are free to teach

Location and Opening Hours

The Schools Library Service is located at:

Top Road
Barnby Dun
Doncaster DN3 1DB

Tel/Fax 01302 881787 
E-Mail: schools.libraryservice@doncaster.gov.uk 

Teaching staff of subscribing schools are entitled to use the Schools Library Service and requests for material can be made by phone, in writing or by visiting the Schools Library Service.
 

Christmas and New Year holiday closures

Opening Hours are:

Monday
8.30am - 5.00pm
Tuesday
8.30am - 5.00pm
Wednesday
8.30am - 5.00pm
Thursday
8.30am - 5.00pm
Friday
8.30am - 5.00pm