Description
These volumes provide a series of informative interviews with school/teacher librarians practicing in different parts of the world. The 2-volume set showcases the resilience, creativity, and best practices from successful school librarians from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. The librarians interviewed come from all different schools and schools systems, from a tiny recently built school library in a rural village in Africa to an ultra-modern library in Sweden.
Featuring 37 interviews with successful school librarians from across the globe, the volumes let us hear the stories from countries around the world. They tell about their creative and innovative school library projects, their unconventional reading programs, and their best practices and experiences in addressing the challenges of supporting basic literacy. A wide selection of methodologies and approaches are discussed, offering a global “voyage” through topics important in school librarianship. The 2-volume set also addresses recent advancements in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the shift toward inquiry-based learning that impacts school libraries worldwide.
The books are packed with information that can be used by school librarians, teachers, school administrators and others in a variety of ways. Readers can borrow best practices from the experiences presented in the book, and the volumes can also serve as a strong voice for practicing school librarians and the profession, through expanding the opportunities for professional sharing in the international school library community.
Table of Contents
Volume 1: The Americas and Europe
Using Zombie Comics to Motivate Students to Read
Janet Kanady
The School Library: A Challenging Place to Work
Nicole Lewis
School Librarian: A 21st Century Vision for Teaching and Learning
Maura Madigan
School Librarianship: It Is All About Building Relationships
Judith Ashby
The Modern Bookworm! She’s Stranger Than Fiction!
Mona-Lynne Ayotte
Stories Told by a School Librarian from Land of the Maple Leaves
Aaron Mueller
A Resource Center in the Struggling Latin America
Carlos Diaz
JCSP School Libraries Creating a Learning Culture in Irish Schools
Hilary Cantwell
Job Satisfaction though Diverse Collaboration – I Slipped into the Best Career Ever
Christina Nord
Promoting Integration – What Can We School Librarians Do?
Matz Flodin
The School Library: Where Real Self-Directed Learning Takes Place
Slavica Jurić
School Librarian Stories from a City That Is Built on Two Continents
Melis Roberts
School Librarians as Roadmap for Guiding Children Who Will Shed Lights on Our Future
Sevgi Arıoğlu
Being a School Librarian Is Mission (Im)possible?
Arijana Alispahić
The School Library as the Heart of All Learning and Teaching for the Whole School
Ajdin Begic
School Librarianship: The Quest for a Narrative That Demonstrates the Process of Understanding
Vanja Jurilj
The School Library as a Gateway to the World
Joke Boonstra
From the Land of Fire, Ice and Books
Berglind Inga Guðmundsdóttir
Dragon Myths Told by an Icelandic School Librarian / Dragonologist
Vignir Ljósálfur Jónsson
Volume 2: Africa, Asia, and Australia
A School Library in a Place Where There Has Never Been One Before! Building a Reading Culture in DR Congo
Katherine Shaw
Our Passion to Provide School Libraries to the Children of Zimbabwe
Hosea Tokwe
It is a Long, Long Walk to Books and Very Far Away from Information Access and Delivery: Stories from School Librarians in Zimbabwe
Jerry Mathema
My Library, My Lifeline
Dumebi Ezar Ehigiator
Children Experiencing the Joy of Reading in Japan
Mami Kobayashi
Bringing the Concepts of US Public Librarianship to a School Library in Hong Kong
Jun Niu, Tammy Ng, and Joli Moore
Modelling Your School Library After Starbucks? Successful School Librarian Stories from Hong Kong
Gloria Chan
Zarah Gagatiga: The Filipino School Librarian in Action
Zarah Gagatiga
A Large School Library in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Is Run by a PhD Candidate
Apinun Seesun
Successful School Librarian Stories from the Land of Smiles
Wanpen Asakit
A School Library in the Wondrous Kingdom of Thailand
Wilasinee Thepwong
The Hidden Truth about the Undying Determination of a Successful School Librarian
Sharada Pandey Siwakoti
Helping Students in the Foothills of the Himalayas
Jeremiah O’Sullivan
A Teacher-Librarian with a Mission of Creating Information Literate Global Citizens!
Zakir Hossain
Libraries: A Flourishing Garden of Life
Andrew Downie
Making a Difference to Student Learning Through School Libraries
Madeleine Jane Viner
The Library Works at Being the Hub of the School
Kevin Whitney
Invitations Across Thresholds
Robyn Markus
