News - Meet A School Librarian

Monday, December 1, 2025

Julie Broadbent, school librarian at Northampton International Academy, has been awarded the School Librarian of the Year 2025, with judges praising her for her work in promoting reading engagement, enriching her students' experience of school, and maximising the opportunities provided...

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Verity Robinson is an experienced primary librarian. Led by Verity, Mangotsfield C of E Primary School Library recently won the Peter Usborne Primary School Library of the Year 2025, awarded by the School Library Association. Here, Verity tells ReadingZone about her library and what ma...

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

The School Library Association's 2024 Awards aims to recognise the efforts of three schools and their librarians in encouraging reading for pleasure with innovative approaches to reading and library development.  Award-winning author Robin Stevens presented the awards at a ceremony in...

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Thursday, May 23, 2024

School libraries and librarians are celebrated for helping ignite children's love of reading in the School Library Association's shortlist for the Peter Usborne Primary School Library of the Year Award and the Honour List for the 2024 Secondary School Librarian of the Year Award.</stro...

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The School Library Association announced the winners of the Primary and Secondary School Librarian of the Year, Community Award and Enterprise of the Year at its annual award ceremony in Swindon.  The winner of the 2023 Primary School Librarian of the Year is Sa...

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Friday, June 16, 2023

The School Library Association has announced the shortlist for their 2023 School Librarian of the Year Primary, and the Honour List for the 2023 School Librarian of the Year Secondary. In schools all over the UK, dedicated staff are working hard to bring reading and lea...

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Friday, October 14, 2022

School librarian Laura Richards won a free place to the Reading the Planet YLG Conference 2022 in September and she tells us about making new connections, 'bookish joy' and meeting authors at this year's event - and why she also hopes to attend future events.

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Friday, June 11, 2021

Kristabelle Williams of Addey &amp; Stanhope School, a voluntary aided state secondary in inner South East London, has been awarded the honour of School Lib...

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