This book explores the role that librarians play within schools as literacy leaders. Building on recent research from Australia, the USA and the UK, the author examines the role that librarians may play as literacy educators in schools in order to make visible their contributions to the school community.
Margaret Merga is Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University, Australia. Her research interests include social influences on literacy acquisition across the life span and the position of reading and books in the contemporary world.
Chapter 1. School librarians are educators too.- Chapter 2. Do teacher librarians feel that their profession is valued?.- Chapter 3. Do schools with libraries use them?.- Chapter 4. 40 practices and strategies: What teacher librarians do to support children's literature and literacy learning.- Chapter 5. Competing demands and barriers.- Chapter 6. Collaboration with teachers.- Chapter 7. Supporting the nation's literary voice: Teacher librarians as advocates of national literature in schools.- Chapter 8. The future of teacher librarians and school libraries: some closing comments.