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
On March 29, 2017, The Chicago Tribune published a commentary by Sam Weller entitled Without School Librarians, We’re On a Dystopian Path. On March 31, 2017, Stephen Krashen responded with a letter to the editor entitled Libraries and Librarians: What … Continue reading
In response to President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget, cutting all funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and other cultural organizations (Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities), Margaret Willison presented an impassioned … Continue reading