standards

The application of standards to delivering excellence to the profession

Barbara Schultz-Jones, PhD

Toby Faber

Jan Reed

IASL & SLAQ, Brisbane QLD Australia

� Background

� Method

� Results

� Discussion

� Implications

� Questions

IASL & SLAQ, Brisbane QLD Australia 2

� School library certification program online

� Students from Texas, other states, other countries

� Program focuses on practitioner skills and � Program focuses on practitioner skills and orientation to standards (AASL, state, etc.)

� Examining the perceptions of graduating professionals

� Perceptions of professional priorities as they consider the application of professional standards to the role of school librarian


� Electronic copies of 2 written assessments

� 39 graduating school librarians

� Summer and fall semesters of 2009

� 1st assessment1 assessment

� Research paper discussing the top 3 trends or issues, from their perspective, facing school librarians today as they apply school library standards

� 2nd assessment

� Track the postings of LM_Net listserv and identify the top 3 issues of concern posted by contributing school librarians.


� Student identification removed from the papers

� Assignments were coded according to the semester and the assignment

� LM01-LM23

� TRSUM01 – TRSUM16� TRSUM01 – TRSUM16

� TRFAL01 - TRFAL14

� 3 coders examined each, individually

� Unit of analysis: issue

� Coding an iterative process among the coders

� Nvivo content analysis software

� Final list of 16 issues


1. Advocacy

2. Classification (organizing by genre)

3. Collaboration (with teachers & administrators)

4. Copyright

5. Diversity of multicultural literature collection

6. International Baccalaureate (IB) program

7. Inquiry based learning

Intellectual freedom (censorship/filtering)

(alphabetically)

8. Intellectual freedom (censorship/filtering)

9. Information literacy

10. Funding or budget

11. Library management

12. Reading recommendations

13. Role of the school librarian

14. Scheduling (fixed or flexible)

15. Space usage in the library

16. Technology, including web 2.0



2. Funding

3. Copyright



6. Advocacy

7. Collaboration

(Ranked, all sources)

Collaboration


9. Classification of resources


11. Multicultural literature collection

12. Scheduling

13. Space usage



16. International Baccalaureate (IB) program



2. Funding


4. Collaboration

5. Advocacy

(Ranked, summer 2009)



8. Multicultural literature collection

9. Copyright



12. Scheduling



2. Funding

3. Advocacy


5. Scheduling


(Ranked, fall 2009)




9. Multicultural literature

10. Space

11. Copyright

12. International Baccalaureate program



2. Copyright

3. Classification of resources




(Ranked, listserv)


7. Collaboration

8. Funding

9. Space

10. Multicultural literature


12. Scheduling


Advocacy Classifying fiction

Collaboration Copyright Diverse

collection IB program Inquiry Intellectual freedom

Information literacyInformation literacyFunding Library managementReading Role

Scheduling Space TechnologyIASL & SLAQ, Brisbane QLD Australia

Dominant themes:

� Meeting the challenges of a rapidly

changing information landscape

� Sense of urgency

� Leadership role inherent in the shifting dynamics of the � Leadership role inherent in the shifting dynamics of the school environment

� Student learning

� Implications for learning using inquiry process

� Meeting the needs of students and teachers

� Where are the standards??!!

� Issues were discussed in relation to standards (AASL)


� Technology dominates

� Web 2.0

� Expanding instructional skills

� Need to stay up-to-dateNeed to stay up-to-date

� Familiarity and comfort level

� Which ones to purchase

� Availability to students

� Assisting teachers with tools

� Recognition that a technology rich environment is conducive to learning


“What library services will suffer because money is spent on technology?”


Funding:

� “there are two factors that influence how school library programs are run – budgets and standards”

� “when librarians are filling a fundraising role it takes away time to devote to students”away time to devote to students”


Information Literacy:

� Recurring issue: Acquiring and using the skills to access and evaluate resources

� Missing: the ways to do so� Missing: the ways to do so

� Issue identified for students

� Not a skill issue for librarians


Inquiry based learning:

� “Todd Effect”

Ross Todd fall 2009� Ross Todd fall 2009

� Stirring call to action

� Impact: significant


� “the advent of new technologies

has made the job of librarians

more relevant and essential

than ever”than ever”

� Multiplicity of responsibilities

� Creativity challenge

� LIS education challenge


� Listserv

� Encourage conversations

� Practitioner focus

� Research infrequent� Research infrequent

� Lacking as a vehicle for

research interaction

� Ongoing professional

development


Future FocusIASL & SLAQ, Brisbane QLD Australia

??Questions??


Barbara A. Schultz-Jones, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Director, School Library ProgramDepartment of Library and Information SciencesCollege of Information, University of North Texas1155 Union Circle 311068, Denton, Texas 76203-5017Office: 940-369-8081Office: 940-369-8081Fax: [email protected]

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