TY - JOUR
T1 - Building a Knowledge Bank of Critical Literature for Australian and New Zealand Teacher-librarians and School Libraries
AU - Carroll, Mary
AU - Garrison, Kasey
AU - O'Connell, Judy
AU - Wakeling, Simon
AU - Oddone, Kay
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper will provide an overview of Stage One in the development of a new resource which focusses on school libraries and teacher-librarians in Australia and New Zealand. In late 2020, academics from the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University (CSU) received funding from the Australian Teacher Librarian Network, supported by the Faculty of Arts and Education at CSU, to commence the first stage of what is intended to be a two-stage project to build knowledge and research capacity in teacher-librarianship and school libraries in Australia and to support practice and advocacy in this field. The research team defined teacher-librarians according to as those who operated within the school library environment and held dual qualification in education and librarianship. In Australia, qualified teacher librarians are also recognised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). The researchers have named this project the Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries (KBANZSL). The primary aim of this project is to address a ‘fundamental need to collate some hard data’ and a ‘commensurate need for additional resources for their [Teacher librarians] professional development’ in a 2011 parliamentary report School Libraries and Teacher-librarians in twenty-first Century Australia (House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Employment Parliament of Australia, , p. 118).
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© 2022 Mary Carroll, Kasey Garrison, Judy O’Connell, Simon Wakeling and Kay Oddone.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This paper provides an overview of Stage One in the development of a new resource about school libraries and teacher-librarianship in Australia and New Zealand. This new advocacy, research and information tool was produced by a team of academics from the School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University. This team have expertise in education, librarianship, and teacher-librarianship. Curating over 100 years of resources for, and about teacher-librarians and school libraries in Australia and New Zealand, Stage One of the Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries (KBANZSL) is a point-in-time guide and record of critical reports, books, papers, and other resources about Australian school libraries and teacher-librarianship. It is intended to support researchers, administrators, practitioners and advocates of school libraries and teacher-librarianship by recording literature in the field in a single location. Details of the project's scope, development and parameters are discussed, and examples of the intended final outputs are provided. The overall project addresses an identified gap in the research around teacher-librarianship in Australia and New Zealand. An opportunity to build on this current research exists, with the intention that Stage Two of the project will extend the resource into the online environment.
AB - This paper provides an overview of Stage One in the development of a new resource about school libraries and teacher-librarianship in Australia and New Zealand. This new advocacy, research and information tool was produced by a team of academics from the School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University. This team have expertise in education, librarianship, and teacher-librarianship. Curating over 100 years of resources for, and about teacher-librarians and school libraries in Australia and New Zealand, Stage One of the Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries (KBANZSL) is a point-in-time guide and record of critical reports, books, papers, and other resources about Australian school libraries and teacher-librarianship. It is intended to support researchers, administrators, practitioners and advocates of school libraries and teacher-librarianship by recording literature in the field in a single location. Details of the project's scope, development and parameters are discussed, and examples of the intended final outputs are provided. The overall project addresses an identified gap in the research around teacher-librarianship in Australia and New Zealand. An opportunity to build on this current research exists, with the intention that Stage Two of the project will extend the resource into the online environment.
KW - School libraries
KW - school libraries-Australia
KW - school libraries-New Zealand
KW - teacher-librarian-advocacy
KW - teacher-librarian-research
KW - teacher-librarianship
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U2 - 10.1080/24750158.2022.2115579
DO - 10.1080/24750158.2022.2115579
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138422415
JO - Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
JF - Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
SN - 2475-0158
ER -