Going the Extra Mile: What Makes School Librarians Proactive?

Autor: David Streatfield, Bart Rienties, Sharon Markless, Simon Rae-Scott
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: School Libraries Worldwide. :129-144
ISSN: 2816-3788
1023-9391
DOI: 10.29173/slw6873
Popis: This paper reports on a second round of analysis (conducted in 2012-13) of the results of the national surveys of UK school libraries completed in 2010, involving self-eported activities and priorities of 803 school librarians. This further analysis highlighted four aspects of proactive school library manager behaviour relating to their approaches to: promoting reading for pleasure, information literacy development, collaborating with teachers , and actively exploiting ICT within the school. Various levers or drivers that are associated with proactive library managers were then identified from the survey findings. These are: supervision by senior managers and ready access to them; active development planning; the library manager's academic and professional qualifications. The relative strengths of each of these drivers were assessed from the data.
Databáze: OpenAIRE