Remaining problems

Remaining problems from Mid crit.


1. Funding: how much can we spend?

Children are a worthwhile “investment”. Children’s libraries need a budget to maintain and improve the quality of materials and services offered to the public.

Standard budgets can be supplemented with outside sources of funding, such as:

government grants (for special programs and new initiatives) 

cultural organisations (for music, dance, drama, arts, historical and ethnic presentations) 

publishers (for visits by authors or illustrators and for other give-aways) 

sponsorship (local businesses and volunteer organisations to support specific events) 

non-governmental agencies 

matching funds. 

2. Architecture: can we really redesign the building itself?

Ideally, the library for pupils should be centrally located. it would be better to have designed space for reading area as well. However, according to teachers in our target school, we have a limitation of space and it might be impossible to expand the room or take a larger room for the library. So creativity of designing the reading space can go a long way. For example, furniture such as knock-down furniture that can be composed freely to make relatively closed space, as well as create novelty of the surroundings.

3. Changing just the library may not solve many problems, as it is the part of the whole educational ecosystem: maybe the whole system should be redesigned as well?