Emma Wallace, Senior Librarian at St Benedict’s School in Ealing, London, has written a very thoughtful article – The School Library as Sanctuary: Supporting Students’ Social and Emotional Wellbeing – in The School Librarian, the quarterly journal of the School Library Association.

Emma makes an excellent case for inquiry-based learning, framed by a model of the inquiry process such as FOSIL, as a practical strategy for satisfying the IFLA School Library Guidelines (2015) requirement for the school library to be a “safe space where individual curiosity, creativity, and an orientation toward learning are encouraged and supported and where students can explore diverse topics, even controversial topics, in privacy and safety” (p. 17).