Subscriptions

A subscription with Lancashire School Library Service provides a cost effective solution to resourcing your school curriculum, library and reading collections, with access to over 200,000 resources.

We offer a choice of annual subscriptions:

  • Comprehensive or Basic for primary and special schools.
  • Small school offer for schools with less than 100 pupils.
  • Early Years settings
  • Book Awards – subscriptions may be purchased separately.

Thinking of purchasing a subscription?

Book a free one hour visit to your school to discuss your requirements.

Subscriptions for primary and special schools

  • Core collection for your library/classroom, 2 books for every pupil selected at either Book Bus visit or box exchange.
  • Curriculum boxes to support teaching topics. The allocation is based on pupil numbers.
  • Half day visit to your school for library advice or pupil workshop.

*For a single form entry school with 210 pupils this costs 5p per pupil per school day.

  • Core collection of 200 books for your library/classroom selected at either Book Bus visit or box exchange.
  • Curriculum boxes to support teaching topics, an allocation of 6 boxes per year (approximately 180 titles)

*For a single form entry school with 210 pupils this costs 3p per pupil per school day.

  • Curriculum boxes supporting teaching topics, an allocation of 6 boxes per year (approximately 180 titles)

Please note smaller schools can subscribe to any of the 3 subscription levels.

Subscriptions for early years settings

Comprehensive

  • Core collection of 200 books for your library/classroom selected at either Book Bus visit or box exchange.
  • Curriculum boxes to support teaching topics, an allocation of 6 boxes (approximately 180 titles) delivered and collected by courier.
  • Half day interactive story and rhyme session.

Basic

  • Core collection of 100 books for your library/classroom selected at either Book Bus visit or Box exchange.
  • Curriculum boxes to support teaching topics, an allocation of 3 boxes (approximately 90 titles) delivered and collected by courier.
  • Half day interactive story and rhyme session.

Pre-school, playgroup and nursery

  • 3 boxes of seasonal books per year. Each box delivered once a term to a Lancashire Library of your choice for collection and return by the setting.

Early Years Settings can also subscribe to the Small School Offer.

About us

Find out about the School Library Service, and what we offer.

Find out more about library services in Lancashire.