Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services

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  • Dolls from around the world

    Dolls from around the world

    The Schools Library Service has been lucky enough to receive as a donation a collection of folk and national costume dolls from around the world.

    You  can now borrow collections of dolls (between 8 and 20 dolls in a box) from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas!

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  • Search our catalogue

    Search our catalogue

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    Follow this link to search our library catalogue

    • Your reader account requires a PIN to access it. Please contact the library to set up a PIN.

    Reserving items

    • You may reserve up to 5 items at any one time
    • If you wish to book more items then you should use our Request for Resourses service
    • If the resources you reserve are available then we will deliver them to your school.
    • Remember, resources are loaned for a whole term, so if you reserve items that are on loan, they may not become available for some time as we only recall overdue items.

    Hints for searching

    Keywords

    Use curriculum-based keywords such as:

    Science

    Forces, Sound, Space, Planets, Plants, Flowers, Recycling

    Literacy

    Familiar settings, Explanation, Report, Recount, Biographies, Fantasy, Poetry

    Religion

    Holy books, Christianity, Festivals, Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam, Creation

    Other

    Play, Sustainability, Education, Schools, Tudors, Phonics, Cubism

    As you can see, keywords are based on curriculum and literacy strategy terms that you will already be familiar with.

    Limiting your search to a particular area

    Use the drop-down list to search only for big books or artefacts. Otherwise if you’re looking for Roman costumes, just typing in Romans will also return all of our book records.

    You can also use search terms such as KS2, Historical Fiction, Science, Geography, etc along with keywords, for example:

    • Typing ‘Roman costumes’ will return no hits. Use Romans AND costumes, or use keyword ‘Romans’ and select ‘costume collection’ from the media drop-down list.
    • Historical Fiction AND Tudors would just return stories set in Tudor times.
    • Science AND Rivers would ignore most geographical resources on rivers.

    Narrowing your search will return a more manageable set of results.

    Combine terms by either using the Advanced Search OR by using boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT)

    When searching for specific books:
    • Know the author! Many childrens books have the same or similar titles.
    • Know the title! “That green book about bullying with wolves in it” will not help you (although you could search for Bullying AND Wolves and, besides, that book has a blue cover.)
    • If the title is complex (such as Understanding childrens’ errors in primary anarchic activity : a guide for newly qualified teachers by Durden, T) make your life easier by searching for the key words in the title and the author. So Childrens errors Durden will find this book with less risk of spelling errors returning no results.
    Avoid typing…
    •  Long strings such as “Books about issues for the primary and early years”
    • Spelling mistakes – there is no auto correct or prediction.

    This catalogue is not an internet search engine. It cannot perform full-text searches of our books or interpret written questions.