scholarly journals Reaching for the Top

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara McNeil
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
School Library ◽  
Literature Circles ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Adolescent Boys ◽  
Literacy Engagement ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Literacy Research

This paper draws attention to the important role school libraries, teacher-librarians, and principals can and need to play in the lives of marginalized adolescent boys in order to advance the goals of social justice and equity, and to make school libraries more relevant to citizens and communities. As an illustration of how teacher-librarians can intervene in the lives of such students, the author presents preliminary insights from a recent literacy research project that involved a school principal, a professor/school library specialist, and a professor in school leadership. Using a modified, contextually tailored version of literature circles, the researchers explored ways of enhancing the critical literacy engagement of marginalized adolescent boys in an urban school in western Canada.

scholarly journals Impact Study of the Teacher Librarian Specific Training on Educational Achievement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Novo ◽  
José António Calixto
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
School Library ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Teacher Librarians

This paper presents the current situation of the school library teams’ specific training in the Portuguese Integrated Elementary Schools that in 2005 were already in the Portuguese School Libraries’ Network. Other countries’ studies, like the ones from the USA and UK, suggest that students achieve higher levels of literacy, learning and problem solving when teacher librarians have specific training to perform their duties. The analysis of data gathered from a questionnaire shows that 32% of the Portuguese school librarians do not have any kind of specific training. This scenario suggests that there hasn’t been any significant improvement since 10 years ago especially in what school librarians’ training is concerned.

scholarly journals Principals, School Library, SL Professionals, Learning Outcomes, Partnerships, and SL Web Advocacy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie José Vitorino
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Principal's Role ◽  
Professional Networking ◽  
Learning Success ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Hard Times

Even within many different school leadership styles, it seems to be an evidence to many SL professionals that Principal’s role is always a key factor for SL services, curriculum enhancement and learning outcomes, valuing or, in the contrary, giving hard times to SL professionals projects and SL teamwork. School Principal ́s role is particulary important concerning teachers-SL cooperation, the very heart of learning success. How could each SL professional and each SL professional team learn to act wisely, improving communication and advocacy skills, managing strategies according to different School Principal’s profiles and contexts? Which are School Principal’s “valued” information sources on SL issues – official, professional, networking, public librarians sources? And which, and how, could be reinforced, locally, nationally and internationally (IASL included)? Web 2.0 is making/could make/should make a difference for these purposes?

scholarly journals Evolution and Revolution in School Library Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Suzette Boyd
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
New Era ◽  
Implementing Change ◽  
Teacher Librarians

What future are we as teacher-librarians doing to respond to...or choose for ourselves? Will it be the safe, well-worn “evolutionary” highway on which the majority of school libraries are moving, or will it be the exciting and challenging “revolutionary” path with its associated risks? The revolutionary library signals a new era for schools and their students. Here roles are continually being redefined and services and programs are continually restructure. This paper outlines some strategies for implementing change and challenges and inspires our profession to reinvent itself.

scholarly journals Introduction of the Hungarian school library system

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Dömsödy ◽  
Marianna Edit Pataki
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Library Instruction ◽  
Library System ◽  
Trace Back ◽  
School Librarianship ◽  
Teacher Librarians

The today’s school libraries in Hungary trace back to the 18th century. After 1970 the school librarianship became an independent profession and library pedagogy was elaborated as well. Nowadays the Hungarian School Library Association provides the most support. In spite of difficulties Hungarian school librarianship has much strength but needs to be improved in many fields yet. There are well operating libraries, committed teacher librarians and a good legislation. Library instruction is built into curriculum. In 2012 has changed the education policy, which also affected school libraries badly. A way to save the profession is to elaborate the library pedagogy program and declare how libraries can support information literacy and independent learners.

scholarly journals Penerapan Fungsi Manajemen dalam Pengelolaan Perpustakaan Madrasah Aliyah (Studi Kasus di Perpustakaan MAN 2 Palembang)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Rhoni Rodin
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
School Library ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
New School ◽  
Library Management ◽  
School Year ◽  
Management Functions

The purpose of this study was to analyze how the application of management functions in the madrasa library, especially in the MAN 2 Palembang library. The research method uses a descriptive approach with qualitative analysis. Data collection techniques used were observation, interview and document study. The results showed that in general the MAN 2 Palembang Library had implemented a management function in library management. The management functions applied include planning, organizing, avtuating and supervising. In general, the management of the school library at the MAN 2 Palembang Library is good enough, but there are still some aspects that must be fixed. MAN 2 Palembang library management planning process is more cornered to user education which can be carried out in the new school year which is carried out simultaneously with the student orientation period. Organizing in the management of school libraries with school libraries in general. The organization includes the form of organizational structure and the division of work of each library staff. The mobilization process related to the leadership process is carried out by the school principal. Mobilization related to job description is carried out with instructions from the Head of Library. Although there are no binding supervision standards, as a form of responsibility the head of the library makes a report every 6 months and the end of the school year is addressed to the principal. However, there are still some obstacles that hamper the process of management in the library; 1) The availability of computers and internet services is still not available to support better management and library services 2) Knowledge of the classification of Islam that should have been determined in Islamic-based school libraries.

scholarly journals School library concepts developed by an inquiry-approach curriculum organization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Tilke
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
School Evaluation ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Inquiry Approach ◽  
Curriculum Organization ◽  
School Leadership Teams

Focusing on a recently-published pedagogical statement about the role of school libraries and librarians for specific inquiry-focused curricula, this paper looks at how school librarians used the documentation in individual situations. Experiences and perceptions of individual librarians resulted in analysis of specific uses of the document: informing school leadership teams, contribution to developing school library and librarian roles and documentation, including jobs descriptions, and aiding preparation for school evaluation by the curriculum organization concerned.

scholarly journals A Survey of Primary School Libraries to Determine the Availability and Adequacy of Services for Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Oyo State, Nigeria

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Belau Olatunde Gbadamosi
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Universal Basic Education ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Computer And Information Literacy

Objective -- As a first step in gathering evidence, this study surveyed school libraries and examined the services those libraries provide in relation to the Universal Basic Education (UBE) program at a primary level. The purpose of this paper is to explore these UBE factors in relation to school libraries in Oyo State, Nigeria. Methods -- A questionnaire was sent to the 33 schools which have a library and information centre staffed by a teacher-librarian, in order to examine library services and the views of those providing them. The questionnaire covers library space, categories of library resources, student activities during library visits, mobile library services, and the teacher-librarians’ perception of the adequacy of the collection and the challenges in the use of library. Results -- Questionnaires were returned by 30 teacher-librarians out of 33, a response rate of 91%. Although pupils across each local government area have the chance to visit school libraries, the system of one short visit per week is inadequate for developing a universal interest in reading and in study skills. Staff responsible for the libraries consider many of the resources to be inadequate or outdated and stock is depleted as pupils borrow books, leaving fewer for those who follow. Conclusions -- As a first step to implementing evidence based practice, this paper describes the primary school library system in Nigeria and provides evidence on how it operates in Oyo State. Teacher-librarians who staff the libraries confirm the inadequacies in the system. They perceive collections to be inadequate and confirm that some pupils in the state have only limited access to library resources. Respondents also believe that they need further training, particularly in computer and information literacy.

scholarly journals Challenges and Issues That Are Faced by the Sri Lankan School Library Staff (2000-2016 period)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasanna Ranaweera
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Staff Training ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Information Science ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
The Government ◽  
Teacher Librarians

This study focuses on challenges and issues faced by the Sri Lankan School Library staff recruited under the General Education Project 2 (GEP 2). The study was conducted in order to identify the pros and cons of the GEP 2 Library staff training project. 4000 teacher librarians were recruited to the school libraries under the GEP 2 Project. The National Institute of Library and Information Science (NILIS), University of Colombo, was established under this project. In 2003 NILIS introduced Masters, Post-graduate Diplomas, Diploma and Certificate courses in Library Sciences, in order to train the newly recruited teacher librarians and support staff. This study proposes to reveal the main factors which contributed towards the inadequate number of students for the NILIS courses, which were mainly due to the policies of the government regarding staff training, and the school libraries in Sri Lanka. This study was carried out with the available written documents, communications, and face to face interviews, with the relevant parties. NILIS is struggling to improve the training of school library staff throughout the island in numerous ways, in spite of the red notice by the authorities to close down the Institute. Subsequently due to the best practice of NILIS it was possible to convince the officials of the Ministry of Education regarding the importance of School libraries, and staff training, which resulted in the increase of the number of students from 26 in 2013, to 250 in 2016.

scholarly journals Promotion of reading habit among school children in Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeepa Wijetunge
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
School Children ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
English Language ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Library Development ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Reading Promotion

School Library Development in Sri Lanka is a large scale project which covers 4000 schools and includes building construction, distribution of books, furniture and equipment and training of human resources funded by the World Bank. BOBLEP (Book Based Language Enrichment Programme) developed from the concept of reading promotion within the library project. The project not only promotes reading using the purchased books, but it also promotes production of books by school children as well as teachers. It was decided as a result of the success of the project, to expand similar reading promotion activities in general. Teacher and Teacher Librarian education programmes of Sri Lanka incorporated a variety of such activities to train reading promotion among school children. The full paper will present the history and the structure of the project and activities carried out by the teacher librarians to expand it from an English language project to a reading promotion project conducted by the school libraries. It is expected that by sharing the information of this project, other developing countries which face similar constraints in providing suitable reading material can gain useful ideas.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES IN THE PROVISION OF SCHOOL LIBRARY SERVICES IN KATLEHONG SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindiwe Shandu ◽  
Neil Evans ◽  
Janneke Mostert
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
School Library ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Gauteng Province ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Qualified Teacher ◽  
Information Collections ◽  
Teacher Librarians

This article reports on a study that investigated the issues and challenges in the provision of school libraries in secondary schools in Katlehong, Gauteng province, South Africa. A qualitative research method was used to conduct the study among 14 secondary schools in Katlehong. The target population included 14 teacher-librarians, 14 principals and one Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) official, who were interviewed. Additionally, 102 teachers participated in focus group discussions (FGDs). Convenience sampling was used to select the teachers, while purposive sampling was used to select all the other participants in the study. The study revealed that teachers are not using school libraries in Katlehong because they are unable to provide relevant information services due to a lack of space; out-dated and inadequate information collections; uncatalogued and poorly organised books; inaccessible opening hours; and a lack of funds and networked computers. Only 29 per cent of the schools had qualified teacher-librarians in their employ, while the 71 per cent unqualified ‘teacher-librarians’ indicated that they were managing the school libraries without the professional skills required to guide both teachers and learners in the use of library resources. The teacher-librarians were also burdened with additional teaching loads, which negatively affected the opening hours of the libraries. It was recommended, firstly, that a specific library period be allocated to each class to allow for library orientation; secondly, that sufficient funding be allocated to each school library to enable it to function optimally; and, thirdly, that library hours be regulated and qualified library staff be employed.

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