Abstract

Collaboration in school libraries can be viewed as a supportive and respectful working relationship between participants involved in developing, planning and creating learning opportunities and experiences, as well as to ensure optimal use of the school library resource. While strong collaboration between school library staff and teachers and leadership beyond the school library is a key goal of school libraries, actual levels of collaboration may be lower than desired. There is a paucity of recent research that captures factors relevant to effective collaboration from current and diverse contexts, and limited consideration of how these factors can contribute to measures of effectiveness for school libraries. This article proposes possible measures of effectiveness and a pragmatic research plan that can build the evidence-base for the practice of collaboration both within and beyond the library.

摘要

学校图书馆中的合作可视为参与开发，计划和创造学习机会和经验的参与者之间的一种支持性和尊重性的工作关系，并确保对学校图书馆资源的最佳利用。虽然学校图书馆工作人员与教师之间的强有力的合作以及学校图书馆以外的领导层是学校图书馆的主要目标，但实际的合作水平可能会低于期望的水平。最近的研究很少，缺乏从当前和不同情况中进行有效合作的相关因素，并且对这些因素如何有助于学校图书馆有效性的衡量标准的考虑有限。