Schools' Library Service Charges 2011 - 2012

Using the Schools' Library Service is a cost effective way of providing a wider selection of up to date high quality resources in your school. With the average price of a children's book at £7.66, the SLS offers you access to a wider range of stock than one school can afford to purchase alone.

FULL SERVICE - available to Primary, Middle and Special Schools
The full package includes:-

• A mobile library visit twice a year
• Unlimited projects to resource classroom topics
• Group reading sets for literacy 
• Big books for literacy
• Fiction genre and author packs
• Unlimited telephone support
• Professional Support and Development for the school library (up to 3 hours) or Talks to pupils and teachers (up to 3 hours)

TOTAL CHARGE FOR FULL SERVICE

£1385.00  Lump Sum + £5.75 per pupil

• Primaries, middles and special schools sign up  (172KB)
• Secondary middles and secondary schools sign up (103KB)
• Academies sign up (170KB)
• Sign up sheet for Birmingham and Solihull schools  173KB)

Individual services can be purchased at any time during the year

• Online application form

Borrowing from SLS offers the most cost effective way of acquiring resources for your school. A typical 7 class school could borrow £15,014 of resources at a cost of £2,488 to themselves. This statement on value for money explains how.   (168KB)

Extended Services and Children's Centres are also able to take advantage of our bulk loans

Please see charges for Extended Schools  (191KB) and Children's Centres   (157KB).