Global Action on School Library Guidelines

✍ Scribed by Barbara A. Schultz-Jones (editor); Dianne Oberg (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Series: IFLA Publications; 167
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book celebrates the new IFLA School Library Guidelines and shows how the Guidelines can be used in improving school library services. Each chapter describes innovative initiatives for developing, implementing and promoting school library guidelines. The book provides inspiration and guidance for the creation of national school library standards and for the development and use of standards and guidelines to change school library practice, to define the teaching role of school librarians, to guide the initial preparation of school librarians, and to advocate for school library services. Contributors to the book come from around the world: Australia, Canada, Ethiopia, France, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United States. Their work illustrates the shared commitment of school librarians around the world to "teaching and learning for all", as envisioned in the IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
About IFLA
Foreword. Messages from the Sponsoring Organizations
Preface
Part 1 Developing International School Library Guidelines
1 International School Library Guidelines. A Brief History
2 Development of the New International School Library Guidelines
Part 2 Developing and Using National and Regional Guidelines
3 Developing National Standards for School Libraries in Canada
4 Guidelines and Standards for School Libraries in Catalonia, Spain
5 Standards for School Libraries in Poland. Are They Working?
6 Norway’s School Library Development and School Reform 2001–2014. Guidelines by Grants and Lifts
Part 3 Using Guidelines to Change School Library Practice
7 The Learning Commons. From Planning to Practice in a School System in South Carolina, USA
8 School Library Learning Standards in Portugal. Leading the Way
Part 4 Using Guidelines for School Library Advocacy and Development
9 School Libraries for All. From Concept to Reality in Sweden
10 Teacher Librarians and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
11 Applying an Ecological Model and Standards for Library Development to Build Literacy in Rural Ethiopian Communities
Part 5 Developing Guidelines for the Teaching Role of the School Librarian
12 Developing a Curriculum in Information and Documentation for Secondary Schools in France
13 Developing a K-6 Note Taking Continuum in a School in Western Australia
Part 6 Guidelines for the Initial Preparation of School Librarians
14 Guiding the Preparation of School Librarians in the United States, 1984–2014
15 Preparing Next-generation School Librarians. School Library Education in Hawai?i
16 The Symbiotic Relationship between Standards and Programmes in School Library Education California’s Experience
Afterword
Appendix
IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto (1999)
Contributors
Index