Education Library Services Video Transcript

The following is a transcript of the Education Library Service (ELS) video.

Glossary of Abbreviated Terms

GV – pictures that illustrate what is being discussed/ explained
IV – Interview
VO – Voice over
GFX - Graphics

Written Storyboard Transcipt

GFX - Title slide
GV's – Winsford ELS base, children and teachers engaging with ELS materials.
VO
The Cheshire County Council Education Library Service serves subscribing schools in Cheshire, Warrington and Halton and provides, books, learning materials, mobile libraries, advice and support to help schools and teachers deliver the curriculum effectively to all of their pupils and a dedicated delivery and collection service. .In addition to purchased audio visual material educational broadcasts are recorded and copied, under license, on site. 

GV's – Librarian at ELS consulting with a teacher (Corynne). And then GV's to illustrate the wide range of resources available (DVD's, videos etc)
VO
With a staff of qualified librarians on hand that understand the individual needs of schools, ELS can give the regions schools tailored professional advice to ensure that they have the materials, including books, DVD's, videos, audio tapes, story sacks, artifacts and much more, to meet their needs in the classroom.

GV's – Pupils at Cledford
IV – Head Teacher (Cledford)
How the knowledge of the staff at ELS is one of the major benefits. The range of materials available.

GFX – Map of area – Winsford highlighted.
GV's – Winsford and the resources showroom.
VO
At it's central location in Winsford, teachers can come and browse through the materials on offer and discuss their requirements with our staff.

GV's Corynne searching through the resources available at ELS.
IV – Corynne
How she is hoping to use the expert knowledge of the ELS team to help her in the classroom. Her first impressions of ELS on her visit.

GFX – Books piling up to illustrate the facts and figures in the VO – numbers and text appearing on the book spines.
VO
The ELS in Cheshire has materials for all ages from nursery to secondary and all abilities including special educational needs. There are over 246,000 items on site in Winsford and over 68,000 new primary fiction and non fiction books are added to the service every year. Furthermore over 93% of Cheshire primary and special schools that already subscribe to the ELS buy back the service year on year because the level of service, the educational benefits and the financial savings of using a one stop service for their materials is valued by them.

IV – Head Teacher (Cledford)
The advantages of having access to quality reading (and other) materials that the school doesn't have to buy. How the librarians knowledge of the curriculum and schemes of work is a major benefit.

GV's – Students at Greenbank using resources to study Hinduism.
IV – Carole Chia (or Head if available) Greenbank
How they use the service. How useful it being able to visit the Winsford base (with pupils and on their own).

GV's – Website
IV – Chris Trevor
How the catalogue – note this only non book material and prepacked project boxes – not the book titles -  is available online and it is useful to have a number of means to see what is available.

GV's – Reading Sets at Greenbank
IV – Carole Chia
The advantage of being able to order and use reading sets tailored to her students’ specific needs. How she identifies what those needs are and works with ELS to meet them.

GV's – Mobile Library
VO
The ELS also have 2 mobile libraries that visit schools twice a year to update and refresh their stock. For some children it might be the only experience of visiting a library other than their own school library..

GV's – Children using the mobile library.
IV- Teacher (NQT at Cledford or Head again)
Novelty of the mobile library. The experience it gives their students. How it adds extra value to the overall service from ELS.

GFX – Using the book motif from earlier and using piles of coins mixed with text to illustrate the facts and figures in the voice over below. A total figure would constantly be updating as each new item is mentioned.
VO
The service offered by the ELS is flexible and designed to meet schools individual need. Subscription rates vary and are based on pupil numbers. The cost benefits can be easily illustrated though by taking a look at an average school subscription based on what a school with 350 pupils borrowed from ELS over a year. If the school were to purchase the resources themselves then the costs would be as follows.

300 non fiction books at an average cost of £10.50 to support project work, £3,150.

15 Big books for literacy based on an average price of £22, £330

10 Guided reading sets with an average price of £39.50, £395

20 fiction titles with an average paperback price of £5.99, £119.80

A deposit collection of 700 titles at an average book price of £7.50, £5,250

350 new or different titles exchanged on mobile library visits (and up to 200 books can be changed per visit) with an average price of £7.50 per book, £2,625

2 Objects or artifacts to aid learning with an average of £45 per item, £90

15 Videos or DVD's, £299.25

and 2 Audio books with an average price of £7.99 each, £15.98

If a school were to actually purchase these resources then it would cost £12,275.03.

However a school with 350 pupils that borrowed the resources listed from ELS could do so with an annual subscription of £3,195.

That's a potential saving of £9080.03.

GV's – resources being used by students over the next interviews and voice over.
IV – Mike Whittaker
The financial benefits of the service to schools.

IV – Head Teacher (Cledford)
The financial considerations.

VO
In fact the more schools that make use of Cheshire's Educational Library Service, the more cost effective it will become and the more resources it will have available for loan to it's subscribers.

IV – best example from all interviews
What it would mean to not have the service.

IV - best example from all interviews
How they would struggle to work without it

IV - best example from all interviews
How now they have subscribed to the service they wouldn't consider not doing so again and again into the future.

Statement from Joan Fennan – Driector

GFX – End slide with contact information etc.

For more information on how ELS can help you why not check out the ELS website…

Credits to pupils and staff of schools and advocates.