Buying group news
- Leicestershire Library Services for Education (LLSE) has subscribed to three JCS resources and has purchased purchased the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive. Credo Reference, History Study Centre, and Science Reference Center will be available to LLSE members free of charge until August 2011. The Guardian and Observer Digital Archive will be available in perpetuity. For further information, please contact Deb Siviter, LLSE Manager. Schools in Leicestershire can also attend a free training event.
- Buying groups are in development in Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Coventry/Warwick/Rugby, Durham, Gloucestershire (and surrounding counties), London, Oxfordshire/Berkshire, Milton Keynes/Buckinghamshire/Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Worcestershire (via the Local Authority procurement process).
- Please contact Rozzi Triffonova at JISC Collections for Schools if you are interested in joining a buying group or setting one up.
Free support materials for teachers
- Mapping grids demonstrating how the Science Resource Centre and the Science Reference Center™ can support teachers of Triple Science are also available.
- Julie Blake (author of The Full English) has prepared a series of classroom activities for English at Key Stages 3-5 using the Education Image Gallery, the Times Digital Archive, and the Guardian and Observer Digital Archive.
- Specially-commissioned lesson plans (including ideas for extension work) at Key Stages 3-5 for English, Citizenship and History are also available.
Price lists and auto-quotation spreadsheet
Price lists for individual schools and buying groups are available here along with a quotation spreadsheet enabling pricing for schools and buying groups to be calculated with ease.
Publicity material
- Download our 2009-10 catalogue (6MB)
New monthly newsletter
The first edition of our new monthly newsletter (April 2010) is now available.
New online discussion forum for school librarians
- Share your thoughts about online resources with other school librarians in a new forum. Email Baldev Singh if you would like to take part.
Case studies and press releases
- Hertfordshire schools pool their purchasing power in JCS buying group - new case study and press release.
Events
- Find out more about free events in May and June for schools in Hertfordshire, Leicestershire and Gloucestershire.
- Visit our stand at the Independent Schools Association Conference from 13-15 May.
- Presentations from our seminar in Oxford can now be downloaded.
Recent articles
- Using JCS image resources in teaching - new article in Independent Education Today, March 2010
- Ofqual guidelines highlight the importance of using trusted online sources
- How JCS resources benefit science teaching - article in Education in Science, February 2010
- Using the Times Digital Archive in English teaching - article in Independent Education, December 2009
- Exciting new world - article in Independent Education, September 2009
- JISC Collections urges schools to join buying groups to afford online resources - article in Library & Information Update, September 2009
- What do prisoners have that school students don't? The statutory right to a library - article in IQ Education, July 2009
- Becta opens resources to independents - article in Education Executive, June 2009
