Presentation at ARA South West seminar Oct 2019 providing case study on LSE Library heritage learning and engagement developments. LSE Library has built its edcuation materials for schools and engagement activities for its external audiences through online resources, public event programming. schools activties and partnerships utilising its heritage collections.

1. • Library
Case study: LSE Library
making connections
OCTOBER 2019 ARA SW
Maria Bell, Learning and Engagement
@bellmari
• lse.ac.uk/library
• @LSELibrary

2. LSE Library making connections
• @LSELibrary
• Library
Today
Developing a schools and public
programme
 Why
 How
 Achieving with others
 What we are learning

3. LSE Library making connections
• @LSELibrary
• Library
Looking back
LSE Library amazing collections in social sciences
Supporting 10,000+ students
External researchers
School visits – responsive, ad hoc
Long relationship with LSE Widening Participation
No exhibition space
No strategic programme for external school / public
programme

4. LSE Library making connections
• @LSELibrary
• Library
What changed?
Getting started
Goals?
Audience?
Priorities

5. LSE Library making connections
• @LSELibrary
• Library
momentum,
opportunity,
experimenting

6. Another Brick in the Wall
LSE Festival
https://vimeo.com/328149520

7. I came here to see the big wall and it was much more than I
expected. 10/10, I’d love to come back’. (child), Colindale
Primary School
Enjoyed the experience so much and enlightened to see the
creativity from the kids. Job well done. Colindale Primary
School Parent.
I like it because we got to sing and see the wall of our bricks.
(child)
I didn’t like it, I loved it. (child)
I loved it here and I love the weaving. (child)
LSE Library making connections
• Library

8. Who visits? • 821 school students, librarians and visitors
• 338 of them visiting the Library
• Sessions given in the schools were mainly
years 7 to 11.
• Majority of visitors to the library were for
Year 12 EPQ sessions or to use archive
material in their History A Levels.
• The Walls Project for the LSE Festival enabled
engagement with primary schools, and
feeder secondary schools for LSE Widening
Participation.
• 77% from state schools
• 23 % from the independent sector.
76
30
3
32 10
84
180
30
57
40
14
253
28
School Year Groups - All Collections
School Teachers
Yr 2
Yr 3
Yr 4
5
6
7
8
Yr 9
Yr 10
Yr 11
Yr 12
Yr 13

9. Breakdown of collection / topic interest
76
30
3
32
10
84
180
30
57
40
14
253
28
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
School Year Groups
All collections Women's Library
40%
20%
8%
16%
4%
4%
8%
School Sessions by Popularity
EPQ Suffrage Brexit LSE Festival Greenham Common Women in 1920s Intro to library

10. LSE Library making connections
• @LSELibrary
• Library
2019 Schools
programme
Documenting
change in British
society and politics
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whats-
on/learning-programme-for-schools

11. Schools programme
• Key Stage 1 - Famous People
• Key Stage 2 –Why we see a doctor,
The Children’s Charter, activists for
change
• Key stage 3 and 4 – women’s rights,
Boer War, welfare, protest and
change, equality
• Sixth form /FE – electoral systems
and elections, changing role of
women, protest, welfare

12. Secondary
Schools
Offer includes:
Women’s Rights /
Changing Role of
Women
The Peoples’ Health:
Welfare from the
Workhouse to the
NHS
Abroad and Home:
The Second Boer War
Protest and Change
such as Social
Reform, Nuclear
Disarmament
Equality, Diversity and
Rights
KS 3 & 4

13. Sixth Form /
FE topics
Offer includes:
Changing Role and Status of Women
in the Twentieth Century
Rise of Labour Party and Fabianism
The Beveridge Report: Social
Welfare and Public Health
Change and Protest: The Contagious
Diseases Act and Campaign for
Repeal 1862 – 1886
Electoral Systems: General Elections
and Referendums

14. School programme
EPQ, Extended Essay / Project
Support:
2 hour introduction sessions
• Introduction to LSE Library and resources
• Topic searches and evaluation of material
• Referencing and academic writing
Plus
Access to LSE Library for 16-18 students
Online Resources
https://www.tes.com/teaching-
resources/shop/d_challis

15. LSE Library making connections
• @LSELibrary
• Library
What are we learning?
• Topics
• Schools
• Students
• Staff development needs
• Organisation and logistics

16. LSE Library making connections
• @LSELibrary
• Library
Going forward
•Audience!
•Know our purpose
•Managing relationships
•Staff development

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• @LSELibrary
• Library
LSE Library
• What’s on http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on
• Schools programme http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on/learning-programme-for-schools
Maria Bell m.bell@lse.ac.uk Debbie Challis d.challis@lse.ac.uk

18. LSE Library making connections
• @LSELibrary
• Library
Resources and links
• LSE Festival Walls film https://vimeo.com/328149520
• Endell Street Deeds not Words https://www.digitaldrama.org/project/deeds-not-
words/?portfolioCats=179 & 100 Banners https://www.digitaldrama.org/project/100-
banners/?portfolioCats=179 – Digital Drama
• The Fight for Equality - Scarabeus Aerial Theatre https://vimeo.com/263330391
• School resources online https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/d_challis
• LSE Library Flickr incl. The Women’s Library https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/
• LSE Digital Library https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/
• Google Arts and Culture LSE Library https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/lse-library