Library Services for Education

Library Services for Education is a team of professional library and information specialists, dedicated to developing and supporting teaching and learning, empowering the school and college community, promoting equality of opportunity, and enhancing the educational experience for all, through the provision of a quality service.

Our opening times are:

Rothley Crossroads, 929/931 Loughborough Road, Rothley, Leicester LE7 7NH

After consultation with all schools, we have devised the following service offers:

Primary schools (pdf)                   Order form 08/09 (pdf)

Secondary schools (pdf)              Order form 08/09 (pdf)

Special schools (pdf)                    Order form 08/09 (pdf)

Primary schools (pdf)                    Order form 08/09 (pdf)

Secondary schools (pdf)               Order form 08/09 (pdf)

Special schools (pdf)                    Order form 08/09 (pdf)

Primary schools: library skills training (pdf)

Secondary schools: help with reading promotion(pdf)

All schools: Multicultural RE and Curriculum Resource Centre (Quorn Hall)(pdf)

Library Services for Education have undertaken their own research using DfES figures for 2005/6 to compare primary school users of LSE loan services with non-users of loan services, showing an increase in SATs scores amongst users of the service:

Reading level 3+ 3.3% higher for users of LSE

Writing 3+ 2.7% higher

Maths 3+ 3.0% higher.

English level 4+3.3% higher

Maths level 4+ 1% higher, level 5+ by 0.3%.

Science level 4+ 1.4% higher, and the same for level 5+