Owing to the Community Project achievement of a group of Grade 8 students, our middle library went through some milestone changes last semester, which made it much closer to an IB’s Ideal library. According to IB’s official document Ideal Libraries: A guide for schools: “Libraries are combinations of people, place, collections and services that aid and extend learning and teaching.”

This semester, we extend the achievement to make improvements and walk steadily towards the ideal libraries.

A student-centered reading guide policy: as Jean Bryant wrote in The Right Word: Roger and his Thesaurus, we encourage our students to find the right books to read, especially English ones. To help our students find the right English books to read, we display them according to genres and tape colour labels on the book spines according to their reading level. Moreover, our English teachers will arrange occasional language assessment quizes to help students locate their own reading levels. Thus, our students can know more clearly what the right English books for them are to read.

To further enrich our students’ reading both in content and format, we subscribed to the online library myON, which has almost 7,000 English books. Our students can establish their unique book lists in their own accounts, and choose their favourite books to read according to their own reading levels. Moreover, they can select their preferable way to read the book, not only to read the pages, but also to listen to the audio and video versions.