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Living Library® - RM's quality secondary reference website

Whether you need science resources, history videos, pictures by famous artists, or English project support, Living Library is the place to be.

Living Library puts over 4 million secondary resources at your fingertips. It's got pictures, quotes, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, news feeds, maps, handpicked weblinks, videos, and much more, all from leading educational publishers. It supports all subjects and ages from lesson plan to revision guide.

Instead of endlessly trawling the web for free online resources, use Living Library's own search engine to save you time. It's safe, friendly, and easy to use. Students can use it for homework, projects, or to revise for tests.

There are new spotlights on curriculum topics every month. Students can read the blog written just for them to catch up on the news and play educational games.

Living and growing - Collins First Time Spanish and First Time French dictionaries are now live - so learners can now look up words and their translations. Perfect for building language skills.

Plus we've got 200 new pictures from Corbis - find out what life is like in a French- or Spanish- speaking country!

If you haven't got Living Library yet, take a tour to see what you're missing!

'RM has managed to make a reference tool addictive! This is one product that would be used by the majority of staff on a daily basis....9/10'

Independent review in the ICT for Education magazine. Read the whole review

'Living Library can lay claim to being the UK's first dedicated online educational service, and with material drawn from a wide selection of sources it has always been popular with teachers and students'

Review, Times Educational Supplement - (TES)

Educational Benefits

Living Library can support learning in your secondary school in many ways. Living Library.

Saves time. Access millions of relevant resources in one easy search.
Develops students' independent research skills and critical thinking.
Is a safer way of searching the web.
Helps bring lessons to life, with dynamic multimedia and high quality pictures.
Supports differentiation. Its unique ability-reference guides students to suitable resources.

Description	List Price ex VAT	Online Price ex VAT
Living Library Reference Suite - Secondary - 1 year
Living Library Secondary 0-600 pupils 1yr Part No. 0JR-617 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£495.00	£470.25
Living Library Secondary 600-899 pupils 1yr Part No. 0JR-620 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£595.00	£565.25
Living Library Secondary 900-1199 pupils 1yr Part No. 0JR-621 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£695.00	£660.25
Living Library Secondary 1200+ pupils 1yr Part No. 0JR-622 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£795.00	£755.25
Living Library Reference Suite - Secondary - 2 years
Living Library Secondary 0-600 pupils 2yr Part No. 0LD-534 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£891.00	£846.45
Living Library Secondary 600-899 pupils 2yr Part No. 0LD-535 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£1,071.00	£1,017.45
Living Library Secondary 900-1199 pupils 2yr Part No. 0LD-536 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£1,251.00	£1,188.45
Living Library Secondary 1200+ pupils 2yr Part No. 0LD-539 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£1,431.00	£1,359.45
Living Library Reference Suite - Secondary - 3 years
Living Library Secondary 0-600 pupils 3yr Part No. 0KT-604 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£1,188.00	£1,128.60
Living Library Secondary 600-899 pupils 3yr Part No. 0JZ-165 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£1,428.00	£1,356.60
Living Library Secondary 900-1199 pupils 3yr Part No. 0KT-614 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£1,668.00	£1,584.60
Living Library Secondary 1200+ pupils 3yr Part No. 0KT-617 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£1,908.00	£1,812.60
Living Library home user
Living Library home user subscription 1yr Part No. 0G1-333 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£42.54	£40.41
Living Library - Secondary - Multimedia Module
Living Library Secondary Multimedia Module 1yr Part No. 17H-772 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£175.00	£166.25
Living Library Secondary Multimedia Module 2yr Part No. 17X-461 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£316.00	£300.20
Living Library Secondary Multimedia Module 3yr Part No. 17X-462 Usually despatched within 5 working days	£420.00	£399.00

Please Note:

Please Note: All options (excluding 0G1-333) include unlimited teacher access at home to support preparation - wherever and whenever you are working, Living Library can be there at your side.

Two and three year pricing options are now available, offering discounts of 10% and 20% respectively on standard list prices.

Multimedia Module

You will need to be a member of Living Library to subscribe to the Media Module. You can order both of these at the same time by using the relevant part numbers above.

If you are already a Living Library member, please call our customer membership team on 0845 121 3347, who will arrange for your membership to be upgraded to include the Multimedia Module. Your subscription will be brought in line with your Living Library contract and you will only pay for the equivalent of the remainder of your contract period.

Product Features

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Living Library has millions of secondary resources. As a member, you can use them all in your lessons:

illustrated encyclopaedias
multimedia from BBC Worldwide/British Pathe
daily news feed and archive (dating back to 1992) from six national newspapers
online dictionary and thesaurus
language dictionaries from Collins
high quality pictures on all topics
animations and audio clips
revision guides
weekly blog
monthly spotlights on curriculum topics
thousands of hand-picked, educationally relevant web links
'This Day in History' - find out interesting facts about any day in the year
topic-o-lator - get students thinking about connections between topics

Living and growing! New resources are added regularly, making it the website for your secondary school!

Additional Information

Supporting Teaching and Learning

A Living Library secondary school site licence lets you use Living Library in school whenever you want. It also comes with an unlimited home use licence for all teachers.

With your subscription you can also use the primary website. It works in a similar way to the secondary one, and you can find even more resources to help with lesson plans, class projects, or homework tasks.

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'Living Library gives students access to a vast range of resources at their fingertips. Its helps to improve confidence in using ICT and is an excellent tool for encouraging and sharing ideas for project work' Stephanie Gilbert, ICT Curriculum Manager - Bishop Milner Catholic Secondary School, Dudley

Multimedia Module - even more choice and flexibility

Zoom in on plant cells or fly over castles with the Multimedia Module. With over 2000 extra videos and animations it's a fantastic secondary school resource. The videos range from less than a minute to a few minutes and cover all curriculum topics. See the Multimedia Module in the RM.com shop.

Link to Living Library on your school website!

Simply right-click the logo on this page, and select Save Picture as, to save a copy of the logo. You can use the logo on your homepage to link to www.livinglibrary.co.uk, so that pupils can start using Living Library as soon as they're next to a computer!

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get access to Living Library's secondary reference resources?

Living Library is a subscription service with an annual charge. Purchasing a subscription gives your school access to all the content in Living Library. We will send you a username and password. The first time you use Living Library and want to see an individual article, you will be asked for your login details.

Can I or my pupils access Living Library from home?

Yes, there's a home subscription to Living Library so pupils and parents can use it too. If you are a teacher, home use is included as standard to support lesson plans using Living Library.

Can I print out pictures and articles from Living Library?

Yes. You can use Living Library resources as long as you have a current subscription. You can print out or copy and paste any material within Living Library, as long as you use it within an educational context.

Is Living Library safer to use than an internet search engine?

Yes. Educational experts have checked all the material in Living Library to ensure it is suitable for use in schools. Also all the material comes from trusted educational publishers and the web links are continuously reviewed.

Can't I get access to all of this information on the internet for free?

No! The resources in Living Library are produced by the UK's leading educational publishers and media providers. They are not available in one place anywhere else, and most of them are not available through any internet service. They are also specially written for a school-age audience, unlike the majority of the content on the internet, and have been specially selected for their curriculum relevance, to save you time.

How do I set up a link to Living Library on my school homepage?

Simply right-click the logo on this page, and select Save target as, to save a copy of the logo. You can use the logo on your homepage to link to www.livinglibrary.co.uk, so that pupils can start using Living Library as soon as they're next to a computer!

My school is a middle school - which subscription should I choose?

When you subscribe to Living Library, you get access to both primary and secondary sites. Pricing is dependant on the size of your school. Therefore, if your school has over 600 pupils, you will need to refer to the Living Library for secondary schools page.

"RM has managed to make a reference tool addictive! This is one product that would be used by the majority of staff on a daily basis....9/10"

Independent review, in the - ICT for Education magazine

"Living Library can lay claim to being the UK's first dedicated online educational service, and with material drawn from a wide selection of sources it has always been popular with teachers and students"

Review, Times Educational Supplement - (TES)

"Living Library gives students access to a vast range of resources at their fingertips. Its helps to improve confidence in using ICT and is an excellent tool for encouraging and sharing ideas for project work"

Stephanie Gilbert, ICT Curriculum Manager - Bishop Milner Catholic Secondary School, Dudley

System Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Living Library are:

Internet Explorer version 5.5
Netscape version 7
AOL version 4
Firefox version 1
Flash Player version 7
Browser that supports frames, JavaScript and cookies
800 x 600 display
24 bit colour monitor
28k modem (56k modem recommended)
Media Player 6 or above (to play audio and video clips)

Technical Information

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Your school can access Living Library through any ISP.

Caching

The performance of all Web delivered content including Living Library can be improved by installing a cache server such as RM SmartCache 2.

Caching reduces the demand placed on your Internet connection by storing locally frequently accessed content. This means that content is delivered instantly from the cache server instead of the Internet.

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