Children's & Schools Library Service
Headquarters
Unit 6A,
Ardcavan Business Park
Ardcavan,
Co. Wexford,
Republic of Ireland
Tel: +353 53 9124922
Fax: +353 53 9121097
Email: clare.kelly@wexfordcoco.ie
Contact
Clare Kelly (Prior appointment necessary)
Hours of Service
Monday – Friday, 9.30 am – 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm – 5.30 pm
Children’s Services
Wexford Public Libraries children’s services are directed mainly through our branch network. Junior library members are entitled to borrow up to six items for three weeks before incurring a 5c charge per week or part of for each overdue item.
Class visits to our Branch Libraries can be arranged by contacting your local branch librarian to make an appointment.
As well as our branch library presence, Wexford Public Libraries through the Mobile Library Service visit 40 schools throughout County Wexford. Every year numerous events are organised throughout our branch network and indeed in the primary schools of County Wexford. Annual events such as The Children’s Book Festival and The Storytelling Festival take place during October and November each year. Throughout the year various activities take place including story time, arts and crafts, and illustration workshops. (See forthcoming events for current activities).
Schools Services
In addition to the services provided by our branch and mobile libraries to young people in County Wexford, the County Council and the Department of Education and Science sponsor a library service to primary schools. The DES grant is based on pupil enrolment and is currently set at €4.52 per pupil. The funding is specifically to help develop collections in each primary school library.
The Schools Library Service provides a reference and advisory service to primary schools in County Wexford where at present there are 105 primary schools. Each school is invited to select material annually. Visits are by appointment only; in this way, each school can be given individual attention and can be advised on the best way to manage their school library.
Materials available for selection:
All subject areas are covered such as general fiction consisting of picture books, classic books for children and popular fiction, non-fiction and reference. A collection of children’s literacy books for learning support teachers is also available.
Lending Service:
Educational Resource Library
This is a specialised collection of materials dedicated to various aspects of childhood, special needs and education. The materials here although not on open display to the general public are available for general lending; you can access our catalogue either by browsing our WebCat available on-line, or our OPACS at our branch libraries.
National School and Pre-School teachers can avail of a block loan ticket, which will allow them to borrow up to thirty items for a period of three months.
Block Loan of Fiction Titles to Primary Schools
There are currently twenty - eight titles available for block loan. Thirty copies of each title will be made available for a strict lending period of 3 months.
All loans will have to be collected from and dropped back to Library HQ, Ardcavan, Co. Wexford, by schools that avail of this block loan facility.
Only one title reservation per school will operate until further notice in order to facilitate as many schools as possible benefiting from the scheme
Classroom novels available for block loan
(30 copies of each title available)
| The Angel of Nitshill Road (Anne Fine) | The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog (Jeremy Strong | ||
| Benny and Omar (Eoin Colfer) | The Legend of Spud Murphy (Eoin Colfer) | ||
The BFG (Roald Dahl) |
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) | ||
| Bill's New Frock (Anne Fine) | Mark Spark In The Dark (Jacqueline Wilson) | ||
| Charlotte’s web (E.B. White) | Roll of thunder, hear my cry (Mildred D. Taylor) | ||
| Daft Jack and the bean stack (Laurence Anholt) | Safe harbour (Marita Conlon-McKenna) | ||
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (Roald Dahl) | The Twits (Roald Dahl) | ||
| Faraway home (Marilyn Taylor) | Under the hawthorn tree (Marita Conlon-McKenna) | ||
| Fields of home (Marita Conlon-McKenna) | When Hitler stole pink rabbit (Judith Kerr) | ||
| George’s marvellous medicine (Roald Dahl) | Wildflower girl (Marita Conlon-McKenna) | ||
| The Giggler treatment (Roddy Doyle) | A winter of spies (Gerard Whelan) | ||
| Goodnight Mister Tom (Michelle Magorian) | The wish list (Eoin Colfer) | ||
| The guns of Easter (Gerard Whelan) | The witches (Roald Dahl) | ||
| Holes (Louis Sachar) |
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Advisory Service:
If you are thinking of setting up a library at your school, there are many useful publications available for reference e.g. books on children’s literature, school libraries and related topics.
Reference Service:
Children's literature review journals, resource material and publisher's catalogues are also available for reference.
Websites worth visiting:
www.gradu8.net/
www.storiesfromtheweb.org/sfwhomepage.htm
pppl.tblc.lib.fl.us/youth/kidspage.html
www.booktrusted.co.uk/
