On September 20, 2018, Stephen Krashen (professor emeritus at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California) wrote a letter to the editors of the New York Times, titled Libraries Help Alleviate Poverty and Rural Isolation, in which he … Continue reading
On August 14, 2018, Rob Carter of Wicked Local Concord (The Concord Journal online) published an interview with Concord-Carlisle High School librarian and researcher Robin Cicchetti about her collaboration with then-Rutgers University professor Carol Gordon, The Massachusetts School Library Study: … Continue reading
On May 21, 2018, FORBES magazine published an article titled U.S. Public Schools Have Lost Nearly 20% Of Their Librarians Since 2000. This article cites my main article in School Library Journal in March 2018 and Debra E. Kachel’s and … Continue reading
On May 16, 2018, EDWEEK published an article titled Schools See Steep Drop in Librarians, New Analysis Finds. The Phi Delta Kappan article by Debra E. Kachel and me is cited in this article, along with other analyses replicating and … Continue reading
In the April 2018 issue of Teacher Librarian magazine, Debra E. Kachel and I published Changing Times: School Librarian Staffing Status, an article discussing the many factors contributing to the decline in the number of school librarians in U.S. public … Continue reading
In the March 26, 2018, issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Debra E. Kachel and I published a meta-analysis of the past 3 decades of school library impact studies titled Why school librarians matter: What years of research tell us. We … Continue reading
On March 16, 2018, School Library Journal published a group of articles under the banner “School Librarian State of the Union.” My second article in that group is There’s Little National Data About School Librarians. What Happened? This article describes … Continue reading
On March 16, 2018, School Library Journal published a group of articles under the banner “School Librarian State of the Union.” My main article in that group is School Librarian, Where Art Thou? Drawing on the Common Core of Data … Continue reading
The tenth edition of the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service and its Star Library ratings appears in the December 2017 issue of Library Journal. This is the first edition of America’s Star Libraries since the untimely passing last … Continue reading
The RSL Research Group has completed a three-year study of the contributions of community college libraries and librarians to student success in North Carolina. The project web page is http://www.edgecombe.edu/librarians-and-student-success. It includes links to the full study report, a four-page … Continue reading