Co-Chair: Jennifer Moore, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
- Marlene Asselin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Mihaela Banec Zorica, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Glória Bastos, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal
- Albert K. Boekhorst, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Bernadete Campello, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Virginia W. Dike, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
- Ramona N. Kerby (Mona), McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, USA
- Lyn Hay, Syba Academy & Leading Learning Institute, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Barbara Schultz-Jones, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
- Paulette Stewart, Library and Information Association of Jamaica (LIAJA), Kingston, Jamaica
- Suh, Jin-Won, Chonbuk National University, Chonbuk, Korea
- Ben Chadwick, Education Services Australia, Victoria, Australia
- Zakir Hossain, European International School Ho Chi Minh City
- Mary Ann Harlan, San Jose State School of Information
- Susan La Marca, School Library Association of Victoria, Footscray, VIC, Australia
- Kasey Garrison, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
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Karen Gavigan, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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Mary Moen, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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Courtney Lewis, St. Catherine’s School, Richmond, VA, USA
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Sevji Arioglu, Turkey FMV Erenköy Işık High School, İstanbul, Turkey
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Sherry Crow, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE, USA
- Jenna Spiering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
- Dianne Oberg, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Objectives
- to promote an understanding of the importance and value of research on school librarianship, its theory and practice;
- to promote and encourage research related to school librarianship, including action research, school-based research, and small-scale local projects;
- to encourage the sharing of research findings;
- to disseminate information about recently completed research and research in progress;
- 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.
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Potential Activities
- identify links to other educational listservs focusing on school-based research;
- provide abstracts of recently completed research;
- develop a list of national and international funding agencies
- identify key problems / dilemmas of practice that may be explored through research
- develop a list of web sites which specialise in specific research approaches eg action research;
- develop a list of active researchers in school librarianship.
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