LIBRARY NEWS

Senior School Library Refurbishment

The ‘Conceptual Design’ was recently shared with staff and students - thank you to all those who provided such excellent, thoughtful and detailed feedback, all of which will be shared with our architect. The NLCS Jeju Library is at the heart of our community - a safe environment for you to create, enrich, and grow. We are very excited about the plans and will update you along the way.

For now, here are the first concept plans which will be revised following feedback. There will be further opportunities for feedback in the future.

Meet The Library Team

The three on campus libraries and the virtual library system are looked after by a team of experienced and qualified staff. The team ensures that students have access to all the required resources for study, a plentiful stock of books for leisure reading and they provide a welcoming space for our students, with a number of fun activities arranged throughout the year.

Name Occupation Experience

Kym Prichard Head of Libraries and Scholarship, and, Head of Biology

This is my first year as Head of Libraries and Scholarship at NLCS Jeju, previous to this I held an additional responsibility as Lead Practitioner focussing on scholarship and the practice of which in NLCS Jeju. My MA explored the practice of scholarship within secondary education and I am still very much interested in what is “scholarly” in universities compared to that practised in schools such as ours.

Favourite part of your job

Exploring ways to support our NLCS Jeju bibliophiles through our collection, space and services as we have so many of them! This is truly fun. I am also fascinated in ways to best present information in its various forms and shapes. But it needs to be in such a way young people reconsider how to communicate their passion for their favourite subject, idea or context.

Favourite book

It is really very difficult for me to list only one book. Books are everything to me. At a push, I continue to enjoy the skill of John Le Carre, in particular in ‘Smiley’s People’.

Then there is the clarity of the opening few pages of ‘Cider with Rosie’ which I will always cherish.

And, then recalling the prose within this recent book, ‘Entangled Life’ by Merlin Sheldrake is now up there with Le Carre as one my favourite favourite books.

There are a few books I am currently reading, as it depends on whether I read to slow down and relax or whether to be energised to learn and absorb ideas.

For slowing down and relaxing it is currently any short story written by Phillip K Dick, or any story in the Sherlock Holmes collection by Arthur Conan Doyle.

In contrast, I am rereading this book as I am learning so much from Mr Sheldrake!