Scholastic Library Publishing has just released the 2016 edition of School Libraries Work! A Compendium of Research Supporting the Effectiveness of School Libraries. Sign up here to receive a download of this new report. The first update of this valuable … Continue reading →

Karen Gavigan of the University of South Carolina and I are pleased to be the co-authors of the cover article in the October issue of Teacher Librarian magazine.  The title of the article is Everybody’s Teacher:  Administrators’ and Teachers’ Perceptions … Continue reading →

In June 2015, the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) School Libraries Section Standing Committee released a new edition of the IFLA School Library Guidelines. It is gratifying to see the work on which I’ve collaborated with my Library Research … Continue reading →

The last week of July, I was privileged to be part of a special, first-time event, the Research Institute for Public Libraries.  RIPL (pronounced <ripple>) was a partnership effort of the Library Research Service (LRS), the Colorado State Library (CSL), … Continue reading →

On May 21, 2015, Jim Duncan and David H. Rothman published an article in Education Week entitled We Need a National Digital Library Endowment.  They cited the fourth Colorado school library impact study, which is titled Change in School Librarian Staffing Linked … Continue reading →

On May 12, 2015, there was a press conference in Columbia to release the results of the South Carolina school library impact study conducted by the RSL Research Group–Marcia Rodney, Bill Schwarz, and me–over the past school year.  Professor Karen … Continue reading →

In the January/February 2015 issue of PRINCIPAL magazine–the official journal of the National Association of Elementary School Principals–Ann M. Martin and Kathleen R. Roberts published an article entitled Digital Native Does Not Equal Digital Literacy. Here is a quote from … Continue reading →

Yesterday (January 2, 2015), on the Huffington Post Education blog, Yohuru Williams posted an excellent article, Sense and Sensibility: Why Librarians Remain Essential to Our Schools.  This article cites findings from our latest Pennsylvania school library study, How Pennsylvania School Libraries … Continue reading →

Ray Lyons and I are pleased to announce that the 7th edition of the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service–known as the LJ Index, for short–has been released.  This year’s article focuses attention on the relationship between output measurement … Continue reading →

Kudos to Capstone who debuted their new school library advocacy video, School Libraries Matter: The Changing Role of the School Librarian, at the 2014 SLJ Summit a few days ago.  If you watch and listen carefully from 2:10 to 2:28, you … Continue reading →