Building Your Program

  1. Human Resources
  2. Budget
  3. Facilities Management
  4. Collaborative Planning and Teaching
  5. Evaluating the School Library Program
  6. Advocacy

 
  1. Human Resources

Volunteer’s Handbook
This pdf file contains details from a high school’s handbook that is used to recruit and orient new volunteers. It could be useful as you plan your own use of volunteers in the school library.

Article
Porche, M.V. & Ross, S.J. (1999). Parent involvement in the early grades. A paper presented at the American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, April 1999.
The results of this research study show parent volunteers play many roles and have many positive influences in elementary programs.

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  1. Budget

Managing the School Library Budget
This page gives a brief description of the role the teacher-librarian plays in managing the school library budget. It is from the UPEI Administrator’s Guide to the School Library.

Hamilton, Don. Buying a School Library
This opinion piece by Don Hamilton outlines many of the issues that face teacher-librarians trying to run school library programs with limited or no budgets.

Wakefield, J. On the books: Declining budgets for school libraries
A good summary piece advocating for larger school library budgets.

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  1. Facilities Management

National Clearing House of Educational Facilities
NCEF's resource list of links, books, and journal articles on the design of K-12 school libraries, including sample city and state guidelines, and resources on technology requirements.

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  1. Collaborative Planning and Teaching

Integrating Technology using CPPT – A Canadian Example
This elementary school in Newfoundland used the CPPT model to develop units where technology was integrated into the curriculum. The school library learning resources teacher and classroom teachers collaborated to develop resource-based learning activities for several grade levels.

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  1. Evaluating the School Library Program

Rubrics for Evaluating School Libraries
This site in Massachusetts has several useful rubrics available in PDF that you could use to assess your school library in a variety of areas. Quite helpful.

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  1. Advocacy

Visit SLiP (School Library Information Portal) for a full set of links related to School Library Advocacy.

Advocacy for School Libraries: Let’s Get Going
This is a slide show of a presentation given by Pat Cavill at the Alberta Library Association Conference in 2003 which gives a good review of what advocacy is and how we should frame issues in today’s political climate. A good summary and overview.

School Libraries and Teacher-Librarians: Connecting student achievement,literacy and culture.
This is a lside show of a presentation made by Dr, Ken Haycock for the Texas Library Association in 2003 in which he outlines the evidence supporting school libraries, as well as strategies for advocating strong school libraries.

School Libraries: Making a Difference
A group of organizations in the United Kingdom have collaborated to create this site with various resources for supporting school library advocacy initiatives. Some good resources here.

AASL Advocacy Toolkit
The American Association of School Librarians has developed this useful set of resources to help teacher-librarians develop a school-based advocacy program. You will find useful facts to back up your advocacy efforts, sample letters and brochures plus other tools that can easily be adapted to the Canadian context.

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