SLS UK NATIONAL ENQUIRY
Select your geographic area from the list below
- Aberdeen City (Scotland)
- Anglesey (Wales)
- Angus (Scotland)Angus Educational Resources ServiceUnits 1-7 Arbroath Business Centre31 Dens Road Arbroath DD11 1RSTel: 01241 435187Email cularbers@angus.gov.uk
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
Service to parts of the county available from Hounslow SLS - Blaenau Gwent (Wales)
- Bolton
- Bridgend (Wales)
Service available from Neath Port Talbot - Buckinghamshire
- Calderdale
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- Coventry
- Cumbria
- Devon (Babcock SLS)
- Derbyshire
Service available from Nottinghamshire (Inspire ELS) - Doncaster
- Dudley
- Dundee (Scotland)
- Durham
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Eastern Region ASCEL (Library Services for Schools in Eastern Region)
- Essex
- Falkirk (Scotland)
- Flintshire (Wales)
- Gloucestershire
- Guernsey
- Halton (Service supplied by Cheshire)
- Hampshire
- Hull
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
Service available from East Sussex SLS or Tower Hamlets SLS - Kingston upon Hull
- Kirklees (Booksplus)
- Knowsley
- Lancashire
- Leeds
- Leicestershire
- Luton
Service available from Bedfordshire SLS - Milton Keynes
- Neath Port Talbot (Wales)
- Norfolk
- North Lincolnshire
- North Tyneside
- Northamptonshire
- Northern Ireland
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire (Inspire ELS)
- Orkney Islands (Scotland)
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Powys (Wales)
Services available from Neath Port Talbot - Rotherham
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sheffield
- Shetland Islands (Scotland)
- Shropshire & Telford Wrekin
- Somerset
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- St Helens
- Staffordshire
- Stockport – (Service supplied by Cheshire)
- Sunderland
- Swindon
- Tameside
- Torbay
- Wakefield
- Warrington (Service supplied by Cheshire)
- Warwickshire
- West Sussex
- Wigan
- Wiltshire
- Wirral
- Wolverhampton
INSIDE EDITION
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Ways to restock your library
Advice, ReadingLibrarian’s view: To buy 100 new books split evenly between fiction and non-fiction in today’s market could easily cost over £1,000. With the discount specialists like SLS receive from suppliers, the cost for the same number of book...
Books to stop the million word gap
Advice, ReadingLibrarian’s view: Who might say this? “We know that children who read for pleasure, and who are read to, gain all kinds of benefits.” The answer is as likely to be educators as librarians, but this time it was the current Waterston...
Closing the reading gap with the right book choice
Advice, ReadingLibrarian’s view: For confident early readers and reluctant or not yet got it readers, tackling a whole book together in class can be tricky. The speedy ones think they know the story. While the not yet got it group might be struggling...
Dental health matters: teaching kids better oral care with books
AdviceRachel JohnstonHarrow SLS Librarian’s view: Dental health matters: tackling the ‘national embarrassment’ of the crisis in children’s dental health through children’s books A hospital operation is one experience that no parent w...
Books Kids Love: Curated by Kids, Loved by All
ReadingZoe DavisAssistant ManagerLancashire SLS Librarian’s view: At the Lancashire School Library Service, we understand the dedication and effort it takes to find the perfect book for each child in your school. With over 20 years of experie...
What larks: a life with books
InterviewJane Walker from the publisher Barrington Stoke talks about books that empower reluctant readers to get to the end of a story are a big win for all readers. Interview by Nicola Baird Barrington Stoke is known for its super-readable, dysl...