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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

I was more of a periodical girl, with the magazines and the newspapers and an occasional novel or self-help book. If I'm reading a story to them, I also teach about parts of a book by way of creating citations, because when they go to high school and college, they're going to have to create a research paper that requires citations.

Library 111
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Behind the Data: Uncovering New Truths in School Librarian Employment

ED Surge

There were specific reading and writing standards related to information-seeking and research skills. Another outcome we didn't plan is that the SLIDE project has been written about in several popular magazines. We were able to peg correlations to topics that are much more specific to what librarians teach.

Library 139