Global action on school library guidelines / edited on behalf of IFLA by Barbara A. Schultz-Jones and Dianne Oberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schultz-Jones, Barbara, editor.

Oberg, Dianne, editor.

Series:

IFLA publications ; 167.

IFLA publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School libraries--Standards.

School libraries.

School libraries--Aims and objectives.

Physical Description:

xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Saur, [2015]

Summary:

A good school library is core to teaching children to enjoy reading and to appreciate and assess diverse kinds and sources of information. This book celebrates the new IFLA School Library Guidelines and how they can be put to use around the world. Each chapter describes innovative initiatives for improving school library services, including mission and policy; educational and cultural programmes and services; human resources; digital and print resources; uses of technology; promotion and advocacy; evaluation and assessment. Book jacket.

Contents:

International school library guidelines : a brief history / Dianne Oberg

Development of the new international school library guidelines / Barbara A. Schultz-Jones

Developing national standards for school libraries in Canada / Carol Koechlin and Judith Sykes

Guidelines and standards for school libraries in Catalonia, Spain / Mònica Baró, Teresa Mañà and Àlex Cosials

National standards for school libraries in Poland : are they working? / Bogumila Staniów

Norway's school library development and school reform 2001-2014 : guidelines by grants and lifts / Johan Koren

The learning commons : from planning to practice in a school system in South Carolina, USA / Jessica Kohout and Karen W. Gavigan

School library learning standards in Portugal : leading the way / Elsa Conde, Isabel Mendinhos and Paula Correia

School libraries for all : from concept to reality in Sweden / Karin Ahlstedt, Inga Andersson, Jenny Lindmark, Sofia Hög and Bo Westas

Teacher librarians and the Australian professional standards for teachers / Margo Pickworth and Jenny Uther

Applying an ecological model for library development to build literacy in rural Ethiopian communities / Marlene Asselin, Alemu Abebe and Ray Doiron

Developing a curriculum in information and documentation for secondary schools in France / Florian Reynaud, Martine Ernoult, Danielle Martinod, Magali Bon and Valérie Glass

Developing a K-6 note taking continuum in a school in Western Australia / Alison Mackenzie and Marilyn Hand

Guiding the preparation of school librarians in the United States, 1984-2014 / Gail K. Dickinson and Audrey P. Church

Preparing next-generation school librarians : school library education in Hawaii / Rae-Anne Montague

The symbiotic relationship between standards and programmes in school library education : California's experience / Lesley S.J. Farmer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110362435

3110362430

OCLC:

908311074