Professional Roles

The Changing Role of the Teacher-Librarian in the Twenty-first Century. Graduate thesis by Bev Scheirer, University of Saskatchewan, 2000.
A scholarly study of the magnitude of the role of teacher-librarians as catalysts for change. Useful for evaluating personnel.
http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/802papers/scheirer/scheirer.htm

Principal Support for the School Information Literacy Program - Rick Mulholland
http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/tl-dl/info/Mulholland.pdf

Research on the Principal's Role in Developing Informational Literacy: an international study. Dr. Dianne Oberg (University of Alberta) and colleagues from Australia share their findings on the role of the Principal in the success of the school library program. International Association of School Librarianship Newsletter, March 1998.
http://www.iasl-slo.org/principals.html

The Role of the Principal in an Information Literate School Community: Cross-Country Comparisons from an International Research Project
Dr. Dianne Oberg colleagues' comprehensive research paper in School Library Media Research, 2000.
http://www.ala.org/aasl/SLMR/vol3/principal2/principal2.html

University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies
Dr. Dianne Oberg's home page with links to her research on school libraries.
http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/faculty_doberg.htm

What Works: Research You Can Use
Ken Haycock's columns from Teaching Librarian are available here.
http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/40_tool_what_works.html

Grants

Canadian Library Association: annual grants totaling $1000. See site for criteria.
http://www.clatoolbox.ca/awards/grants.htm

Teacher Librarian journal funds grants to subscribing teacher-librarians in the field
As well as supporting attendance at Conferences, the grant can be used to provide planning time in your school or district.
http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/55_tool_grants.html

Student Achievement

School Library Media Impact Studies conducted by Keith Curry Lance for Library Research Service, Colorado Department of Education in Alaska, Colorado and Pennsylvania in 2000 show that school media librarians and libraries help kids perform better on standardized tests.
http://www.lrs.org/html/about/school_studies.html

The Role of the Principal in an Information Literate School Community:
Cross-Country Comparisons from an International Research Project by Dianne Oberg & others in School Library Media Research 2000.
http://www.ala.org/aasl/SLMR/vol3/principal2/principal2.html

Schools We Need Report 2003
"School library and information services professionals need to study this report with close attention.The kind of programs offered in schools to respond to this Report will be the ones that get government and public attention in the next decade. You are invited to check out this website, and consider the implications." (J. Branch, Teacher-Librarianship by Distance Learning, Univ. of Alberta)
http://schoolsweneed.oise.utoronto.ca

Empowering learners: Strategies for Fostering Self-Directed Learning and Implications for Online Learning - Barb Klopfenstein
http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/tl-dl/info/Klopfenstein.pdf

The Crisis in Canada's School Libraries: the Case for Reform and Re-Investment. June, 2003. Dr. Ken Haycock.
"... if Canadian politicians demand hard evidence ot the utility of school libraries and teacher-librarians, they can refer to the studies cited in this report."
final_haycock_report.pdf

Literacy

Canadian Children's Illustrated Books in English: a research project from the School of Library and Information Science at University of British Columbia. The research examines the historical context as well as the contemporary state of illustrated Canadian children's books.
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/saltman/ccib/Index.html

The Internet in teaching and learning in Canadian schools: a study in educational change.
Drs. Susan Gibson and Dianne Oberg, Univ. of Alberta, funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, on-going.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~segibson/gibson_oberg/canadian.htm