Special Interest Group - School Library Research

Chair:
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.

The Research Team:
Dr Marlene Asselin, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, 2034 Lower Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada

Anne Perrault, Assistant Professor and Director of School Library Program, University of Buffalo

Edward Lomax, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University

Ellen Hoffman, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii-Manoa

IASL Research Abstracts
IASL RESEARCH ABSTRACTS
A project of the Research SIG

Objectives:

  1. to promote an understanding of the importance and value of research on school librarianship, its theory and practice;
  2. to promote and encourage research related to school librarianship, including action research, school-based research, and small-scale local projects;
  3. to encourage the sharing of research findings;
  4. to disseminate information about recently completed research and research in progress;
  5. to provide practical guidance to people wishing to undertake research in the field of school librarianship by providing access to expertise, information about possible sources of funding, and information about methodology.

Potential activities:

  1. identify links to other educational listservs focusing on school-based research;
  2. provide abstracts of recently completed research;
  3. develop a list of national and international funding agencies
  4. identify key problems / dilemmas of practice that may be explored through research
  5. develop a list of web sites which specialise in specific research approaches eg action research;
  6. develop a list of active researchers in school librarianship.

See also Internet Resources to Support Research in School Librarianship
See also Research Awards and Grants
See also Research in School Librarianship: The Role of IASL by Maureen Nimon
See also American Educational Research Association SIG: Research, Education, Information and School Libraries
See also Research on the Principal's Role in Developing Information Literacy: An International Study by Dianne Oberg, James Henri, and Lyn Hay

Last updated 27 February 2010 (KSB)