# School Libraries Uncovered: Aligning with Guidelines and Enhancing Non-Fiction Collections Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/fosil-education-and-school-libraries-7032975/school-libraries-uncovered-aligning-with-guidelines-and-enhancing-non-fiction-collections Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/fosil-education-and-school-libraries-7032975/school-libraries-uncovered-aligning-with-guidelines-and-enhancing-non-fiction-collections.md Podcast: [FOSIL, Education and School Libraries](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fosil-education-and-school-libraries-7032975) Published: 2024-02-03T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://elizabethhutchinson.substack.com/p/school-libraries-uncovered-aligning Audio file: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/145687463/b7559169bed3be37cff2a95dd02bf6ca.mp3 Processing state: processed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fosil-education-and-school-libraries-7032975/episodes/school-libraries-uncovered-aligning-with-guidelines-and-enhancing-non-fiction-collections Duration seconds: 2451 ## Resource In our last podcast, Darryl and I talked about Douglas Knight’s two major and unique functions of a library and ended up having a great discussion about the purpose and function of our non-fiction collections. In this episode, we chat about:- * The similarities with the SLA guidelines, including their bookstock guidance. Stott (1947, 1955), School Libraries: A Short Manual (CUP for SLA) and SLA (1972) | Libraries in Secondary Schools * Understand the role of the school librarian via the IFLA School Library Guidelines * Staffing in school libraries * Collection development and in particular non-fiction. Making School Libraries Integral to the Educational Process https://www.sla.org.uk/Services/ItemDetail?iProductCode=8340&Category=GUIDELINES Membership information - https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/aboutmembership Last month's podcast https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/podcast/episode/adf7b60a/fosil-education-and-school-libraries-7 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit elizabethhutchinson.substack.com ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fosil-education-and-school-libraries-7032975/episodes/school-libraries-uncovered-aligning-with-guidelines-and-enhancing-non-fiction-collections/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/fosil-education-and-school-libraries-7032975/school-libraries-uncovered-aligning-with-guidelines-and-enhancing-non-fiction-collections.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.