Despite the raging epidemic in the past two years, Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School (hereinafter referred to as Ming Ma) has just received the School Award and the Librarian Award of the Quality Library Network (QLN) "Quality Library Recognition Scheme 2021: Libraries under the Epidemic" School Award and the Librarian Award , cherish every opportunity for students to get close to books and knowledge, and continue to promote reading in multiple directions.
In order to make reading promotion more effective, and also to train students' leadership skills, Mingma Library deliberately let the student administrators take the lead in promoting reading this school year. It is hoped that the library's services will be more in line with the tastes and needs of students, and further increase attractiveness to students.
(Content provided by Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School)
The library of Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School has been handed over to the student administrators to promote reading this school year (provided by Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School)
Student Curator's Helper
Mingma's team of librarians has a history of many years, serving teachers and students on campus for a long time.
Since 2018, the library has established the important position of student curator, appointing students with a sense of responsibility and enthusiasm for reading as student librarians, participating in the daily management of the library, and assisting in coordinating the cataloging and post-production of new books. This is a great responsibility for the teachers of the library group. helper.
In addition to the curator, there are also several team leaders, who also shoulder the heavy responsibility of providing quality services to readers.
Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School attaches great importance to leadership training, and the library has several student curators and team leaders (provided by Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School)
With great power comes great responsibility
The administrator training is fully coordinated by the student curator and team leader, and the teacher is still very relieved (provided by Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School)
In order to strengthen leadership training and better suit the tastes of students, this year the library has further let go, allowing student curators and team leaders to take on more responsibilities and lead a number of reading promotion programs and activities.
For example, the library's main program in September every year: the librarian training course, is handed over to the student librarian and team leader as mentors to train newcomers to the library.
Li Ziqian, director of the library, said: "The curators and team leaders are very familiar with the operation of the library. They have been working in the front line for a long time and are also students. Therefore, they are very aware of the difficulties and tips when facing the library work. They come to train the freshmen, and we are very reassured.”
In addition, the curators and team leaders are also responsible for the planning, implementation and publicity of various activities throughout the year, such as the "Digital Reading Joy Reading" co-organized with the Mathematics Department, the e-Reading Program to promote e-book reading, and the joint The school promotion programs "Happy Reading Cross-Dimensional", "Doctoral Disciple Garden" and "Cross-School Book Tour" invite great writers to the school "Great Writers in Mingma".
Every one or two weeks, you will see the librarian promoting the image on the stage of the morning meeting.
Dr. Li said with a smile, "When I was invited to give a seminar at the MICE Learning and Teaching Expo earlier, I also specifically thanked our good administrators on stage. Without their contributions, our school library would not have been recognized by the industry."
Mingma's "Library Newsletter" is a carefully produced academic journal, and the three curators participated in the editing work for the first time this year (Courtesy of Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School)
This year's three student curators, Chen Hong'an, Ye Xinglin and Cheng Yilin, tried to become co-editors of the school's "Library Newsletter" for the first time this year, and worked with teachers to formulate the editorial direction of the publication and participate in proofreading.
Chen Hongan, who is studying in Form 4, said frankly: "The library attaches great importance to the publication of the "Library Newsletter". Our "Newsletter" is like a literary magazine. We write articles. The teacher would not hand over the editorial power to us before, so when the teacher let us take the editorial job this year, we are really overjoyed and feel that the teacher trusts us a lot.”
Go to the bookstore to learn to buy collections for the school by yourself
A number of student curators and team leaders who have been vaccinated, accompanied by teachers earlier, visited large chain bookstores, and learned skills such as bookstore operation, book display, and bibliographic classification from bookstore staff.
Curator Chen said, "I have visited stores in other industries before, and this is the first time for a bookstore. I never imagined that there is so much knowledge in running a bookstore. I am very enlightened and look forward to visiting again next time."
In addition, a number of student curators and team leaders also learned on the spot the concepts and guidelines for purchasing books for the school, and also purchased a large number of new books for the school on the spot.
Curator Cheng Yilin, also from Form 4, said: "Although we usually recommend what books to buy for schools, this is the first time to consider what books the school needs from the administrator's point of view. I feel very special. I believe that we have chosen The book must suit the tastes of the classmates.”
The librarian and team leaders, accompanied by the librarian, went to the bookstore to learn how to operate a bookstore, and purchased collections for the school on the spot (provided by Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School)
Mingma Library also plans to hold a book fair design competition in the style of the TV show "The Apprentice".
Book selection, layout, publicity, and cultural design are all handled by them. Let's see which group of book fairs are the most popular and absorbing. With their abilities, I believe that there will be a lot of competition.
(Content provided by Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School)
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