Our students have borrowed over 3,000 #eBooks #Audiobooks #DigitalMagazines from our Digital Library so far this summer. To support this demand we continue to add new titles to our library - incl. these great new #Fiction titles which have just been added. #LoveReading

JCSP Libraries SNAP Photography Challenge Winners 2025 With over 150 entries for our SNAP Photography Challenge this year, our judges had a hard job selecting winners. But they have managed to do so and below are the winning entries in all three competition categories. Junior Category:

Our Give-a-Book Get-a-Book book swap at our end-of-year meeting in Galway #SchoolLibrariansRock @laibluesky.bsky.social @slglai.bsky.social

That time of the year sorting our magazines - our super fans clipping their favourite teams & players before recycling! @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Enjoying our day #MSDreamSpace Ambassador's Graduation 🎓 @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Lego-based wellbeing activities in @enniscorthyvlib this morning #Wellbeing #SchoolLibraries #HowMightWe

Don't miss our May 15th conference on the power of play. Speakers include psychotherapist Dr Joanna Fortune, Lego Serious Play facilitators How Might We, & inputs from practicing school librarians. Don't miss it! Check out Eventbrite for tickets. www.eventbrite.com/e/fun-dament...

Congratulations to our JCSP Graduates for 2022-2025! We enjoyed our time! @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

🤩📚Thanks to all the students, staff and family members, who took part in, & who helped promote, the national ‘Drop Everything and Read’ event, taking place this week in schools around the country. @jcsplibraries.bsky.social #DropEverythingAndRead #DEARIrl #jcsplibraries

Time flies when you read!! We didn't get to celebrate in their first year here in 2020! But from 2021 - 2025 we marked & will mark the day together!! Looking forward to DEAR this Friday! @jcsplibraries.bsky.social 📚📖

It’s @dear_ireland Day! Schools, libraries, writers & everyone else across the country are taking time out to read this morning - incl all attendees from our Great Reads Award earlier this week. Register your support at dropeverythingandread.ie #LetsGetIrelandReading

Our annual DEAR Challenge, with DEAR Ambassador @pforde123.bsky.social takes place at 12noon on Friday April 10 2025. Open to all. Get involved! Read all about it on our website dropeverythingandread.ie Register your support at bit.ly/DEAR25 #DEARIrl #LetsGetIrelandReading @pforde123.bsky.social

🎉🧁🎶We were delighted to host Grandparents’ Day celebrations in our JCSP Library today. It was a really enjoyable morning and more visitors than ever, attended this year. The JCSP classes were fantastic hosts & welcomed the visitors to our library.

Fab talk from Joseph Peelo about his work with the JCSP LIbrary project and School Completion Project in creating a Comic book club. I love hearing about programmes centring Reading for Enjoyment #LAICILIPIRE25 @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Big Thank You to IrishGuideDogs - Waterford Viking Branch for their visit this morning. Imogen has signed up for #DEARIrl this Friday! @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

DEAR 2025 Ambassador Patricia Forde reminds everyone to Drop Everything and Read at 12 noon on Friday April 11th. Full details on dropeverythingandread.ie Register your support at t.co/KVTts9HPfH youtu.be/ett92v2XNnk

Check out our Digital Library circulation stats below. 930 checkouts so far today. Our library is open 24/7 - so no doubt there will be more checkouts - #eBooks, #Audiobooks & #DigitalMagazines - before midnight. Demand is ever increasing for this valuable service

Our South East Super Spellers final about to kick off in the Riverside Hotel #Enniscorthy - with #JCSP schools from across Waterford & Wexford. Exciting!

Chess in JCSP Libraries Another reason why every school should have a library is that they are the ideal venues for chess clubs! The cognitive and social benefits of chess are well known, and the ancient game is becoming ever more popular in the age of apps and social media. A lot of students have…