Class visits to libraries

Practical training for public library staff on class visits.

Anne’s courses explore the role of class visits and identify strategies for achieving an effective class visits policy and programme.

She delivers class visit training to regional library bodies and individual library services.

Anne always tailors her courses to local requirements. Training can focus on strategic and policy issues, for librarians and managers, or practical applications, for frontline library staff, or can cover all these aspects, for a mix of staff.

Likely topics for consideration include:

  • the benefits of visits to schools, children and the library service
  • the educational framework for class visits
  • supporting children’s learning or developing library skills in class visits
  • reader development in class visits or using books effectively in visits
  • promoting class visits to schools
  • monitoring and evaluation

Delegates on all Anne’s class visit courses receive comprehensive back-up materials.

What people say about these courses

Wonderful day. Very inspired to get on and get the children into the library.

Very entertaining, and lively - feel very enthusiastic now - and have found lots of new ideas.

A very useful day spent brainstorming the issues and aims around class visits and the practicalities of the various models discussed.

I feel really inspired. It was great to have so much practical advice and so much focus on actual books.

The information on learning styles and the school curriculum was very, very welcome.

Will be invaluable in planning a programme.

Excellent approach. Practical and strategic issues considered. Very good supporting documentation. Very thorough. Altogether very helpful.

Fantastic. I leant loads. I will try and create fun filled class visits, with many hands on tasks and activities. I would recommend to others.

Lots of ways to interact with children and engage their interest. I feel a lot more confident about doing visits.

Has galvanised me into action. Will abandon worksheets and do more interactive activities on class visits.

Very professional delivery and content. Thought it might be quite prescriptive, but this wasn’t the case at all - lots of thoughts to take away and build on.

Useful to be reminded to think outside the box about the way different books could be used to engage children visting the library.

Very well-presented way to consolidate all the ideas about giving class visits. It really did make us think about planning in more depth.

I feel enthusiasm about putting what I have learnt into practice. Up to now, class visits have been a daunting necessity to get over.