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
If you’re participating in the Library 2.014 conference, don’t miss this session to be presented by David V. Loertscher and Carol Koechlin. The session description from the Library 2.0 website follows: For many years researchers like Keith Curry Lance and … Continue reading
The Colorado State Library is the lead sponsor of an exciting event coming up next summer: the Research Institute for Public Libraries (RIPL). Mark your calendar for July 27-30, 2015, and plan on several days of thought-provoking, skill-building, … Continue reading
It’s that time of year again: following the annual release of new national public library data by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), work has begun on the annual America’s Star Libraries/Library Journal Index of Public Library Service … Continue reading