Thank You!

Another year is drawing to a close and another batch of amazing young people are heading off to pastures new. So it's time for me to say a massive thanks to the library monitors who give up their free time to help make JYHS Library almost as fabulous as Steven.

As our Head Monitor once said 

"Everyone's experience in this library is uniquely different. Each and everyone of us come in here not as pupils or as friends, but as a collective. An exclusive club to only those brave enough to pick up a pen and fill out the form."

Thanks for being brave enough!

JYHS Library Annual Sponsored Readathon

30 pupils joined Mrs.Wilson in the Library for the 2nd Annual Readathon. 

Over the course of 12 hours they read 114 books.

So far nearly £200 has been raised for the school library and that number is set to grow as sponsorship money is collected. 

 Many thanks to all the pupils for taking part and the Senior Leadership Team who supported the event and stayed on in school until after 8pm to allow us to run it.

Harry Potter Day

For one day only JYHS Library was taken over by Hogwarts for a magical Harry Potter themed day. 37 pupils joined Mrs.Wilson for the day which included a sorting ceremony, potions class, dueling, butterbeer, creating a patronus, divination and quidditch.

As usual cosplay was a big part of the fun with Ron, Harry, Hedwig, Newt and many more joining us for the day.

Thanks to the pupils and staff who helped make the day such a success - role on SciFi Con next year!

JYHS Library Annual Review

Thanks!

 A massive thanks to the library monitor team for all their hard work this year - you guys are awesome!

#BookFaceFriday

JYHS Library presents Comic Con II

How good was our Comic Con? See for yourself!

Library Zine Issue 1

JYHS Library presents Comic Con

Mrs. Wilson (our cool librarian)  also got in on the act, mild mannered librarian by term but Batgirl at Comic Con.

Have You Seen This Wizard?

It's Harry Potter Night on the 5th of February and JYHS Library is getting in the spirit

A Night at the Library #5

#bookweekscot Lending a hand

A Night at the Library #4a

#bookweekscot Lego Club having fun

A Night at the Library #4

#bookweekscot choosing some new books

A Night at the Library #3

#bookweekscot Darth Vader gets some career advice before speaking to the SDS career adviser at lunchtime drop-in

A Night at the Library #2

#bookweekscot Getting in some practise for Tabletop Tuesday fun in the Library

A Night at the Library #1

#bookweekscot Getting some reading done for the Comic Book Club

As part of Book Week Scotland we are sharing what happens in the library when the school closes.

4 days left to add to the kindness wall

#choosekind

Book Shelf + Selfie = Shelfie

Share your Shelfie! 

@JYHSLibrary

The English department are collecting shelfie pics for a display why not share yours!

Thanks!

 So another school year is over and I wanted to say a massive thanks to everyone who has made the library such an awesome place this year. Mrs. Lumsden did a outstanding job as acting Librarian and of course the monitors were, as always, brilliant. They racked up roughly 2000 hours of volunteering this year between them!

We also have to say goodbye to those leaving school - Jason, David, Declan, Zoe, Gabs, Richard and Amy-Louise (seen below holding the youngest library monitor). Massive thanks to you all and we wish you the very best for the future - DFTBA!

JYHS Library Survey - Comments

#Shoutabout

A few of you took the time to add your comments on how we could improve the library so here is the feeback to some of the more frequently asked for changes.

42 pupils requested the school unblock Facebook/Youtube/Games - alas this is outside the school library's control however why not raise it at year group pupil councils and see if you can't get this changed.

More books, new books - the annual budget is tight (only £1500 for everything including printer ink, photocopying and pens) I'm afraid and book stock selection has to be base on supporting subject needs against reading for pleasure. Last year I added 740 new titles to our stock. On the plus side we can get books in from the public libraries - just ask.

Tell us when you get new books - that I can do and I will try and keep the shelfari link on the left of the blog updated with the latest new books. Check out the display shelves on top of the adult and teen stock - often new books will be on display there.

More seats, tables and computers - alas folks this won't happen anytime soon we have some of the best computers in the school and 70 people can be seated in here at once. Though if you feel it is an issue raise it at pupil council meetings and see if you can convince school management to look into it (there is a space issue though - not sure we can physically fit more tables into the library).

A quiet study area - from August the lower library will be for quiet study at break and lunch.

Some of you wanted me to ease the rules about coming to the library to do something and instead let you just sit and chat. The reality is that with around 1000 pupils a week using the space and only enough to let 70 sit at once, there just isn't room for people to be in here just chatting. There is high demand for seats and other pupils want to play tables games, read, use a computer, do homework, study, pick a book or play games on their phone or console quietly. Sitting and chatting could be done in other parts of the school so I'm afraid you will just have to find somewhere else to hang out.