Reading for pleasure is an undervalued but highly beneficial practice conferring a range of educative and socio-emotional advantages. School librarians may play a key role in supporting reading for pleasure and associated literature advocacy; however, relatively little is known about how reading for pleasure may be valued within the job description of contemporary school librarians. It cannot be assumed that reading for pleasure is positioned as a valued aspect of the school librarians’ educative role in the United States and Australia, given factors such as evolving demands placed on the profession. Through hybrid content analysis of job description documents, this article explores which aspects of the current school librarian role are related to supporting reading for pleasure, comparing expectations between nations. While there are some similarities in the nature of the reading for pleasure role in the United States and Australia, Australian school librarians are far more likely to be expected to foster reading for pleasure.

休闲阅读是一种被低估但非常有益的做法，它赋予了一系列教育和社会情感优势。学校图书馆员可能在支持阅读娱乐和相关文学倡导方面发挥关键作用；然而，关于如何在现代学校图书馆员的工作描述中重视娱乐性阅读的知识知之甚少。考虑到诸如对职业的需求不断变化之类的因素，不能认为休闲阅读被视为美国和澳大利亚学校图书馆员教育角色的重要方面。通过对工作描述文档的混合内容分析，本文探索了当前学校图书馆员角色的哪些方面与支持阅读乐趣，比较国家之间的期望有关。