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Fuqua School

Fuqua school library

Fuqua School

As a small independent school in rural Virginia, librarians SJ Drummond and Laney Kortas were looking for a dependable, affordable system for Fuqua School that was powerful enough to be a gateway for their students in several ways.
Type  Independent School
Sector Education
Campus 2
Install Hosted
Initially I polled other librarians online, then researched their top three. Accessit looked amazing and, when I followed up, your rep Bonnie was brilliant and very helpful – demo-ing, explaining, and willing to really work with us on our budget. Additionally, her can-do attitude was such a refreshing change.
SJ Drummond

Librarian, Fuqua School, US

With two libraries across two separate campuses catering to students K through 12, librarians SJ Drummond and Laney Kortas wanted a library system that would be a portal for their students – reaching a world beyond the four walls of the library and their town of Farmville, Virginia.

“Two years ago we switched from a massive system that was not user-friendly (and did not have an attractive interface) to an internal system that was included within our new campus management platform. Nine months into it, they announced that they were dropping the library option. After trying to reconnect to our previous system, we found that all of our data had been deleted (despite accessing it the week before) and that we would have to start from the beginning. Cost and unwillingness to work with us (after over 25 years of previous subscription) motivated our school to look elsewhere,” says SJ.

A big change

Dissatisfied and weary, SJ and Laney started the search for a new system.

“Initially I polled other librarians online, then researched their top three. Accessit looked amazing and, when I followed up, your rep Bonnie was brilliant and very helpful – demo-ing, explaining, and willing to really work with us on our budget. Additionally, her can-do attitude was such a refreshing change,” says SJ.

Knowing it would be a time consuming process to re-enter all the inventory manually after the disastrous previous transition, SJ and Laney worried about a repeat experience and loss of inventory, but “the actual process of cataloguing the books to add to the system went flawlessly. Once we did one or two we had the hang of it and it was smooth sailing” says Laney “and because we also worked with SCIS, barcode scanning to add titles was a dream,” added SJ.

For SJ and Laney, the training topped off the experience. “The training sessions, the tutorials, and the almost 24 hour support has been incredible. Plenty of time was taken to explain the system, and excessive patience given as we learned and questioned,” says SJ.

Engaging Web App

Having patrons engage with their library system was something brand new for Fuqua School. “Our Accessit home page can really showcase the best of what we have now – and the options to add news, reviews, and other pertinent info is just a really cool thing,” says SJ. She can see that over time the students will use the library catalogue to its full potential, “I am encouraged that the younger students are being trained to utilize Accessit more completely and efficiently and are therefore learning better habits,” says SJ.

A better way to search

After years of uninspiring library systems, and the endless deluge of new information via the internet, SJ and Laney noticed that the students had become very quick to resort to Google or social media for up-to-date information. As SJ notes, “While this is not necessarily a bad thing, it can lead to mis-information and fake news. The challenge our staff has is to channel them towards true research – impartial, relatable and current.”

Accessit’s One Search tool opens patrons up to curated scholarly material and reliable up-to-date information, doing away with the temptation to draw facts from Google and social media. “One Search inspires my students (and faculty) to browse more (both virtually AND physically),” says SJ. “Our school has just signed up for a subscription to World Book Online (which in itself is brilliant across the K-12 board). To be able to seamlessly tap into that resource using Accessit’s One Search is going to be AMAZING this next school year!”

Fuqua school library

International gateway

A surprising bonus was Accessit’s international reach, “The international appeal is also very important to me. I can share with the kids that through our new library system, we are working with others around the globe – that you are based in New Zealand and that Mrs. Kortas and I were trained by someone in London, England. In our tiny corner of the world, to show that there are no boundaries here is very exciting.”

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    When Alex Wallace, Manager of Digital Fluency, was looking to update the library system at Kamo High School, he wanted two things: a modern, cloud-based system that would take care of itself; and a system that would keep in tune with the digital fluency values of the school.

    Type  School library
    Sector Education
    Campus One large campus
    Staff 97
    Install Hosted
    We wanted to move to a cloud-based system to replace our old unsupported software that required local network backups and so on.
    Alex Wallace

    Manager of Digital Fluency, Kamo High School, NZ

    A modern, cloud-based solution

    Alex Wallace, Manager of Digital Fluency for Kamo High School describes their school library as a “multimedia hub housing a variety of formats to access, use and gain information. The purpose of the library is for open access to the community of users it serves and to work alongside students to develop a love of reading and life-long learning.”

    When researching new library management systems, Alex looked for a modern, reliable system wouldn’t be a drain on IT time, “We wanted to move to a cloud-based system to replace our old unsupported software that required local network backups and so on,” says Alex.

    Digitally fluent learners

    As well as a cloud-based solution, Alex looked for a system that could keep up with a modern learning environment. The teachers at Kamo High School encourage their students to become digitally fluent learners. According to Alex, a digitally fluent student, “knows where and how to find information quickly, and can critique the relevancy and accuracy of information being accessed.”

    Alex explains, “Today, students are computer literate but do not know how to research effectively to gain the specific, reliable, credible information they require for school subjects. A large majority have no idea about keyword searching away from Google and Wikipedia. Students want what is readily available to them, and the up-to-the-minute trends; otherwise, they do not seem interested.”

    Alex notes that with more and more distractions, attention spans are reducing and the media/software/technologies that interest students are those that are immediately engaging and entertaining. “Keeping up with this is an ongoing issue and process to keep them interested and learning,” says Alex.

    Accessit Library directly supports these digital goals, providing students with an engaging, interactive Web App that houses all Kamo High School’s resources, whether digital or physical. Students can access credible, curated content related to any topic through Accessit’s One Search, and can generate citations at the drop of a hat, making referencing so much easier.

    Students at Kamo High School Library

    Responsive support

    From an IT perspective, a smooth system transition, stability of software and superb support were all major drawcards. “The tech support from Accessit and our local IT provider made the transition seamless and problem free. They worked very together well,” says Alex.

    “Accessit is amazingly easy to use. The boxes with different menus in the Management App enhance the accessibility of the functions. I enjoy using the system and we have reduced the Kamo High School helpdesk technical time for system maintenance, updates and backups. The fast response when using phone contact to resolve any issues or queries has been a big plus. The screen-sharing approach has saved the librarian many hours when trying to search and read manuals for small queries,” says Alex.

    “We have found Accessit to be a reliable and robust cloud-based software system that’s user-friendly and well supported from a technical perspective. We highly recommend Accessit to other school libraries. We love Accessit and think the support is fabulous.”

    Kamo High School Library

    In addition to praising the Accessit Library Customer Support team, Jenny is also a self-proclaimed ‘big advocate of Accessit Library’, hoping to have all schools within their trust using Accessit Library.

    There are two schools who have just come into our academy trust, and one has already been persuaded to change their existing Library Management System. I’m also hoping to visit one of the other schools in the next couple of months too.

    I think being on the same library management system will be really helpful in terms of consistency between students who come in from feeder schools and are already familiar with how to search the WebApp. The Librarian in one of our feeder schools is also really excited about using the WebApp to promote resources, reading schemes and other literacy based activities.

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      A limited budget didn’t stop the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand getting the system they wanted for their specialist library collection. It was smooth sailing from there. Information Resource Specialist Kim Higginson shares their story.
      Type  Specialist Library
      Sector Not for Profit
      Campus Single
      Staff 2.3 FTE
      Install Hosted
      I asked on the NZ-Libs for advice on affordable options and several specialist libraries suggested Accessit, as an affordable system with great customer support. Budget constraints were still an issue for us, but we were so impressed by Accessit that we applied for a grant to enable us to go ahead.
      Kim Higginson

      Information Resource Specialist, Mental Health Foundation, NZ

      Where there’s a will there’s a way

      The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand is a charity that works towards creating a society free from discrimination, where all people enjoy positive mental health & wellbeing. They provide free information, training, and advocate for policies and services that support people with experience of mental illness, and also their families/whānau and friends. The Foundation’s Information Resource Specialist Kim Higginson says, “Information plays an important role in their work.”

      The Foundation has a physical library to support staff research and projects, and they use their library interloan service to lend to professionals and others. Their collection is primarily focused on best practice in the areas of mental wellbeing, inclusion, diversity and mental health promotion.

      The other side to the Foundation’s work is providing a free public information service on all aspects of mental health. They act as navigators, pointing people to, or finding them resources or support. They also produce and publish resources that include a popular current awareness bulletin.

      Kim says, “The Foundation has had three library management systems in the sixteen years I’ve been here – Inmagic, Liberty and now Accessit.”

      Several factors motivated their recent move to Accessit. The Liberty software they had been using was out of date and it couldn’t be renewed with the budget they had available. As a result, their catalogue was removed from their website. With an internal server on its last legs, they also wanted to move to a cloud hosted option if they could.

      “I asked on the NZ-Libs for advice on affordable options and several specialist libraries suggested Accessit, as an affordable system with great customer support. Budget constraints were still an issue for us, but we were so impressed by Accessit that we applied for a grant to enable us to go ahead,” says Kim.

      Affordable, easy to use and modern

      Kim says they wanted three things, “It had to be affordable, easy to use and it had to look modern.”

      They could see the potential for the catalogue to become an information portal, housing their web-based information as well as the physical books in the library collection. “The ability to catalogue not just books, but a whole range of things, was a big draw card.”

      They liked that it was intuitive and easy to search. Accessit’s special search features – Visual Search and One Search – really stood out as smart and innovative search tools.

      The home dashboard (Web Opac) was also a real highlight. “We could see how we could easily customise and regularly update it, make it welcoming and chatty, and how we could also introduce some user education and support around evaluating information and resources. We loved the Accessit App, where users could view reviews and popular books, and manage their accounts.

      “The affordable cost and great customer support sealed the deal,” says Kim.

      No such thing as a stupid question

      Switching to a new IT system is often a scary proposition. But the Mental Health Foundation found the whole process smooth sailing. “The Accessit staff were so helpful and patient,” says Kim. “We never felt pressured or in any rush to get everything perfect, and after the initial training we knew the support team were there to support us and always happy to help with anything that we needed. Their ‘no question is a stupid question’ approach really helped reduce the stress levels during the transition to Accessit.”

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        When you exist to simply but emphatically make it easy for teachers to teach, you need a system that will fulfil that promise in every way. Accessit Library was that system. Brian Kennedy, Manager of Creative Learning Services at the Leicestershire County Council, couldn’t be happier with the results.
        Type  Secondary School
        Roll 2,140
        Campus Single campus
        Install Cloud Hosted
        Accessit gives us the flexibility to show the catalogue in an attractive and engaging manner across the range of schools. It has extremely good search functionality, and its ‘quick list’ functionality allows easy profiling of things like the latest award-winning books effortlessly. We also like the ability to tailor the look of the catalogue pages to mirror the branding of Creative Learning Services and to integrate the catalogue into our own website.
        Brian Kennedy

        Manager of Creative Learning Services, Leicestershire County Council, UK

        Making it easy for teachers to teach

        Leicestershire County Council had a goal to fulfil their customer service promise of making it easy for teachers to teach. Their Manager of Creative Learning Services, Brian Kennedy says Accessit Library made this possible in every way. Since choosing Accessit six years ago, they haven’t looked back, going from strength to strength in every way.

        Creative Learning Services is a specialist school library service located at the Leicestershire County Council in the United Kingdom. The service uses Accessit to manage the learning resources and professional development needs of 160 schools across Leicestershire City and Leicestershire County, by providing an extensive range of school library services and curriculum solutions for teachers.

        The changing library environment

        In recent years, the traditional model in England of local authorities funding and managing schools in their area has undergone a transformation. Today many schools are independent academies funded directly through central government. These new academies have greater freedom to set their own policies, follow their own curricula and manage their own budgets.

        At the same time, in many instances, funding for school libraries has come under increased pressures, especially when set against other school priorities. In response, some schools are choosing to no longer employ a librarian or choosing to reduce their investment in book stocks.

        Brian Kennedy says, “We have adapted to this changing environment by maintaining close relationships with the new academies alongside our traditional base of local authority schools. And in both cases we have responded to the individual needs of our customer schools. Part of the continuing success of Creative Learning Services has been to recognize the very real challenges that schools and teachers face and to develop innovative service solutions focused on great customer care and value for money.”

        Creative Learning Services provides three distinct services to primary, secondary and specialist schools.

        1) Loan services (resources that include books, original artworks and artefacts).

        2) In-classroom services (delivery of a range of workshop sessions tailored to the needs of a school and the ability level of its students).

        3) Professional services (professional development, advice, librarian support etc.). These services are offered as bundled packages that enable schools to buy what best fits their particular requirements and budget, thereby avoiding paying for services they don’t need.

        At their core, Creative Learning Services wants ‘to make it easy for teachers to teach’ by enabling them to quickly and easily obtain the curriculum-based materials they need for their students.

        The service delivery challenge

        Six years ago, Creative Learning Services were faced with a challenge. How to deliver a service for teachers from around 160 individual schools to easily, quickly and efficiently get the things they needed for their school?

        “Up until that point, we relied heavily on a centrally based showroom that teachers visited to select their books and projects. This required the showroom to be stocked and staffed to manage those visits from schools. For the staff, this meant a lot of time spent advising and assisting customers in their choices and issuing and returning books within the narrow time slot within which teachers could visit – usually after school had finished for the day. In terms of the visiting teachers and school librarians, the customer experience was time consuming and laborious,” says Brian.

        Creative Learning Services’ vision was to transform the service. They wanted teachers to have the flexibility to choose and book their resources online remotely without having to leave the classroom.

        Accessit helped us fulfil the promise

        After an extensive search, Accessit Library was identified as one of a very small group of software systems that could meet their requirements. Accessit was chosen over more traditional library management systems on the basis of best fit against requirements. Specifically, the strength of the software to deal with schools combined with its flexibility were key elements in choosing Accessit.

        Today, the service strongly delivers on its promise of making it easy for teachers to teach.

        Accessit Library provides teachers with a user interface that is very easy to use and a positive customer experience. Brian says, “We very rarely get any difficulties from our customers, who on the whole find Accessit very easy to use.”

        “Accessit gives us the flexibility to show the catalogue in an attractive and engaging manner across the range of schools. It has extremely good search functionality, and its ‘quick list’ functionality allows easy profiling of things like the latest award-winning books effortlessly. We also like the ability to tailor the look of the catalogue pages to mirror the branding of Creative Learning Services and to integrate the catalogue into our own website,” says Brian.

        A strong partnership

        Over the six years Creative Learning Services have been with Accessit, they have come to appreciate the partnership and support that has been provided.

        “As with any new software contract, we were keen to ensure we received prompt, high-quality technical assistance and advice. This is where the relationship with Accessit has proved very strong. The software itself was only part of the solution we were seeking. Even more important to us was how well the Accessit team responded to our problems and queries. Essentially what we needed was a company we could trust to help us deliver our promise to our customers, and we got that with Accessit,” says Brian.

        Creative Learning Services is one of the few school library services increasing its income significantly from year to year. They attribute this to good business decisions made regarding their operating model, coupled with their strong service delivery made possible with Accessit Library.

        Overall, Creative Learning Services at the Leicestershire County Council have been very satisfied with the value and support they’ve received from Accessit. Brian says, “Accessit Library has served us incredibly well over the past six years and helped us expand both our services and our customer base.”

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          Web App of the Week – Sarah Bonnell School

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          Librarian Talk – Claire Bavister – Woodland Middle School Academy 

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          Librarian Talk – Mary McGavin – Fulham Prep School

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          Librarian Talk – Poonampal Kaur – Sarah Bonnell School

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          How to promote your school library catalogue

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          Librarian Talk – Jason Saikaly – Barker College

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          Librarian Talk – Wendy Wright – Avonside Girls’ High & Shirley Boys’ High

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          Web App of the Week – Ashburton College

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          Librarian Talk – Leisa Westerhof – Norwood Morialta High School

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          Librarian Talk – Delia Achten – Ashburton College

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          Librarian Talk – Frances Currie – Prendergast Vale School

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          Web App of the Week – Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School

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          Librarian Talk – Sasha Roth – Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School

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          Web App of the Week – Wanaka Primary School

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          Librarian Talk – Jill Marriott – Corinna School

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          Web App of the Week – Great Baddow High School

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          Web App of the Week – Broadland High Ormiston Academy

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          Librarian Talk – Gemma Sosnowsky – Queen Elizabeth School

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          Librarian Talk – Donna Harris – Great Baddow High School

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          Web App of the Week – Abington Friends School

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          Librarian Talk – Kay Morfett – Rolleston School

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          Web App of the Week – Burgundy Farm Country Day School

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          Librarian Talk – Gabrielle Wales – Broadland High Ormiston Academy

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          Web App of the Week – Rolleston School

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          Librarian Talk – Sally Baker – High School Librarian

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          Web App of the Week: Harmony ISD

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          Tsukuba International School

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          Otago Boys’ High School

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          Wesley Intermediate School

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          Mental Health Foundation of NZ

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          Leicestershire County Council

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          Cambridge High School

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          Saint Kentigern College

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          Reynella East College

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          Tyndale Christian School

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          Shepparton High School

          Cambridge High School

          Cambridge High School

          A Cambridge High School blazer and tie worn by a high achieving student with his many honours pinned to his jacket

          Cambridge High School

          Accessit is more than a repository for information. It quickly becomes an integral part of the learning journey, supporting teachers and students to achieve beyond their expectations. Cambridge High School students have the results to prove it.
          Type  Secondary school
          Roll 1530
          Campus One campus
          Teachers 99
          Staff 35
          Install Cloud hosted
          Accessit is a gateway to knowledge that allows me to extend my students. Initially, it seemed like something more for librarians – I was wrong! It has really helped my teaching, and my students’ grades are the proof that it’s making a real difference.
          Amy Featonby

          Assistant Head of English, Cambridge High School, NZ

          The proof is in the numbers

          Cambridge High School Assistant Head of English, Amy Featonby, believes that Accessit has had a very real and positive effect on her teaching and her students’ results. Her students achieved 83% excellence in one standard against a national average of 28%.

          Cambridge High School is a co-educational state secondary school located 15 minutes by car from Hamilton, New Zealand’s fourth-largest city. Established in 1883, the school combines modern facilities and a progressive education programme, with traditional core values and high expectations for student achievement. Cambridge High School has been using Accessit Library since 2015. And Assistant Head of English, Amy Featonby, says the library management system has really had a big impact on the results her students have achieved. Amy has found Accessit to be a great classroom and teaching resource.

          “We used Accessit to support the level 3 literature resource standard. The standard requires students to find and use reliable and appropriate sources to develop a hypothesis, much like a first-year university paper. My class received 83% excellence (with the remainder of students attaining merit). The national average for excellence in that standard is just 28.4%. When I asked the students how we aced it, they replied with two things – our focus and learning in class and One Search.”

          The Accessit One Search feature

          Amy identified that getting students set up and using Accessit is easy. They quickly learn where to go and what to do. Accessit’s One Search tool also enables students to quickly and reliably access academic articles and information on a topic using search terms with just a few simple clicks. One Search puts an end to long, laborious searching for hours.

          “Accessit is a safe ‘go-to’ place where students can get reliable, relevant resources. I can trust that my students who use Accessit’s One Search to support their learning are accessing quality materials that will help them achieve the outcomes and results they’re aiming for,” says Amy.

          Students liked using One Search because they had confidence that what they found would be useful and reliable, Amy believes. “In this increasingly digital age, information is more ubiquitous. Students can access information any time from anywhere. What’s available to them is also now of a much higher standard yet students need to be able to evaluate the material for reliability and relevance.

          “Accessit is a gateway to knowledge that allows me to extend my students. Initially, it seemed like something more for librarians – I was wrong! It has really helped my teaching, and my students’ grades are the proof that it’s making a real difference,” says Amy.

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