Special Interest Group - School Library Education

Chair:
Dr Jennifer Branch
Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, 551 Education Centre South, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5, Canada
Email: Dr Jennifer Branch

The Education Team:
Dr Marcia Mardis
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, College of Communication & Information, Florida State University, 230 Louis Shores Building, Tallahassee FL 32306-2100, USA.
Email: Dr Marcia Mardis

Dr Dianne Oberg
Professor, Department of Elementary Education, 551 Education South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5, Canada
Email: Dr Dianne Oberg

Barbara Stein Martin, Ph.D.
Hazel Harvey Peace Professor, Director, School Library Certification program, College of Information, Library Science, and Technologies, Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle 311068, Denton, Texas 76203-5017, USA
Email: Barbara Stein Martin

Sarah Elliott
Naudebroveien 12, 4824, Bjorbekk, Norway
Email: Sarah Elliott

Objectives:

  1. to discuss emerging trends in education for school librarianship;
  2. to identify and interpret emerging themes and approaches in instructional methods, curriculum, technologies;
  3. to disseminate information on major new national, regional, state, provincial and local documents;
  4. to examine trends and issues related to the provision of distance education for school librarianship;
  5. to examine trends and issues related to the provision of continuing professional development for school librarianship.

Potential activities:

  1. to provide an open forum for discussing all aspects of education for school librarianship, including issues, trends;
  2. to identify, and establish co-operative links with, educational institutions providing courses in school librarianship and educational associations;
  3. to disseminate information on professional development opportunities;
  4. to provide case studies of successful professional development initiatives.

See also
Using del.icio.us (a social bookmarking site) you can now share websites and information related to school library education. Please use the tag - schoollibraryeducation - to share information with the group. You can also search for school library education websites using this tag at del.icio.us

See also Study Visit - Italian LIS Students to the Netherlands
See also IASL's links to Resources for Professional Development
See also the School Library Education SIG's links to Internet resources

Last updated 27 October 2009 (KSB)