Library+Effectiveness

Pat’s Lit. Review findings – 9/21/2010

1. Relevant Research Sources - Impacts on Academic Achievement (DPI)
 2. **School libraries are essential to the development of learning skills.** School libraries provide equitable physical and intellectual access to the resources and tools required for learning in a warm, stimulating, and safe environment. School librarians collaborate with others to provide instruction, learning strategies, and practice in using the essential learning skills needed in the 21st century.

 3. **__Information Literacy: A Review of the Research__**  "The last major review of research on information literacy for school library media specialists was done by Christina Doyle in her 1994 monograph from ERIC titled Information Literacy in an Information Society. Now, the two authors have updated this critical area updating the Doyle work through 1997. Studies published in research journals, research retreats, both in the school library media field and in the larger field of education are included. The volume also includes studies done not only in th U.S. but in Canada, Australia, and in Great Britain. The authors not only review the research but offer numerous suggestions for translating that research into practice as school library media specialists educating young people. Designed for the serious practitioner and the researcher who wants to stay current. David V. Loertscher and Blanche Woolls Hi Willow Research and Publishing; 2002 " **$30.00** []

 4. DPI - Standard H - State Statute Re: Library Staffing

**Wisconsin Statute 121.02(1)(h):** [each school board shall] Provide adequate instructional materials, texts and library services which reflect the cultural diversity and pluralistic nature of American society. > Last updated on 8/4/2009 7:37:36 AM
 * Administrative Rule PI 8.01(2)(h)** currently in place operationalizing the above Statute:
 * 1) Have on file a written, long-range plan for library services development which has been formulated by teachers, library and audiovisual personnel and administrators, and approved by the school district board.
 * 2) Designate a licensed library media person to direct and coordinate the district's library media program.
 * 3) Provide library facilities within the school building and make available to all pupils a current, balanced collection of books, basic reference materials, texts, periodicals, and audiovisual materials which depicts in an accurate and unbiased way the cultural diversity and pluralistic nature of American society.
 * 4) Provide library media services to all pupils as follows: to pupils in grades kindergarten through 6, library media services which are performed by or under the direction of licensed library and audiovisual personnel; and to pupils in grades 7 through 12, library media services which are performed by licensed library and audiovisual personnel.

5. **Link to DPI website: []**

 * ===Planning Resources for School Library Media Programs (Includes long-range plan checklist)===
 * ===Library Media Programs and Connecting the Curriculum===

6. **Link to DPI website: School Library Media**: []
Key Findings in this report
 * ===Draft report on Library Media Summit (April, 2010) []===
 * ===2006 School Library Media Study []===
 * **//Schools with full-time certified library media specialists and full-time library aides have higher performance on the WKCE.//**
 * **//Schools where the library media specialist spends more time on instructionally-related student and teacher activities have higher WKCE scores.//**
 * **//Schools with greater library media program resources for collections and technology have higher performance on the WKCE.//**
 * **//Teachers who aligned WMAS for Information and Technology Literacy to their lessons found school library media programs more helpful to student performance.//**
 * **// Library media specialists help students acquire unique skills not taught in the classroom and information and technology skills essential for students in the 21st century. //**


 * //DPI Report (Executive Summary): []//**
 * At the middle/junior high school level they explained 9.2% of the variance in WKCE reading performance. At the high school level, they explained 7.9% of the WKCE reading variance and an even higher percentage—19%--of the WKCE language arts variance.
 * At the high school level, the impact of a quality library media program was almost 7 percentage points greater than the impact of the socioeconomic variables.
 * Programs that were well staffed, especially programs that had full-time professional and support staff, exhibited a greater impact on student academic performance.
 * ==According to the study, library media program variables explained 3.4 % of the variance in WKCE reading and 3.2% in WKCE language arts performance at the elementary level.==