Knowledge Quest Spotlight on School Library Research (SLR)

School Library Research (ISSN: 2165-1019) is an official journal of the American Association of School Librarians. It is the successor to School Library Media Research (ISSN: 1523-4320) and School Library Media Quarterly Online. The purpose of School Library Media Research is to promote and publish high quality original research concerning the management, implementation, and evaluation of school library programs. The journal will also emphasize research on instructional theory, teaching methods, and critical issues relevant to school libraries and school librarians.

Current KQ Issue

If you liked the May/June 2013 Knowledge Quest articles on “Rising to the Challenge” you may be interested in this research study published in School Library Research (SLR):

kq pubs iconSchool Librarians as Technology Integration Leaders: Enablers and Barriers to Leadership Enactment by Melissa P. Johnston

Abstract: The highly technological environment of 21st-century schools has significantly redefined the role of school librarians by presenting the opportunity to assume leadership through technology integration. Despite the abundance of literature that has suggested the need for and the importance of school librarians to be a proactive leaders in technology integration, this role is one that has been ignored in the research arena and left undefined for school administrators, teachers, and the school librarians themselves, leading to uncertainty concerning how school librarians enact this role in practice. This research, based on distributed-leadership theory, investigates current practice of accomplished school librarians to identify what factors are enabling some to thrive as technology integration leaders and what factors are hindering others. This report of the results includes the initial identification and categorization of the enablers and barriers experienced by school librarians in enacting a leadership role in technology integration, a discussion of implications for the profession, and areas of future research.

Visit the SLR website to view other research articles by volume and author.

Past KQ Issues

Volume 41

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Mar/Apr2013 - Mentoring Through Partnerships

Reaching All Learners: Understanding and Leveraging Points of Intersection for School Librarians and Special Education Teachers  by Anne Marie Perrault

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Jan/Feb 2013 - Getting to Know Graphic Novels

Exploring Graphic Novels for Elementary Science and Mathematics by Sandi Cooper, Suzanne Nesmith, and Gretchen Schwarz

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Nov/Dec 2012 - Personal Learning Networks

The Relationship Between School Culture and the School Library Program: Four Case Studies by Jody K. Howard email icon

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Sep/Oct 2012 - Participatory Culture and Learning

Empirical Support for the Integration of Dispositions in Action and Multiple Literacies into AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner by Marilyn P. Arnone email icon and Rebecca Reynolds email icon

Volume 40

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May/Jun 2012 - Caring is Essential

What We Want: Boys and Girls Talk about Reading by Robin H. Boltz, email icon Library Media Specialist at South Granville High School, Creedmoor, North Carolina; and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Mar/Apr 2012 - Coteaching

The Relationship between School Culture and the School Library Program: Four Case Studies by Jody K. Howard, email icon Associate Professor, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University

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Jan/Feb 2012 - Futurecasting

Exploration to Identify Professional Dispositions of School Librarians: A Delphi Study by Gail Bush, email icon Professor, National-Louis University National College of Education and Jami L. Jones, email icon Assistant Professor, Eastern Carolina University Department of Library Science

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Nov/Dec 2011 - The Solo Librarian

A Case Study of a Rural Iowa School Preparing to Meet New State Guidelines for School Libraries by Karla Steege Krueger, email icon EdD, Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction Department, School Library Studies Division, University of Northern Iowa

Values-Oriented Factors Leading to Retention of School Librarian Positions: A School District Case Study by Ann Dutton Ewbank, email icon Education Subject Librarian, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona

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Sept/Oct 2011 - Educational Gaming

Examining Information Problem-Solving, Knowledge, and Application Gains within Two Instructional Methods: Problem-Based and Computer-Mediated Participatory Simulation by Terrance S. Newell, email icon PhD, Assistant Professor, Schools of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

 Visit the SLR website to view other research articles by volume and author.