Literacy Through Collaboration

Ringwood, Jessica

Bishop, K. & Larimer, N. (1999). Collaboration: Literacy through collaboration. Teacher

Librarian: 27(1), 15-20.

Summary: This article provided multiple collaboration ideas appropriate for all levels of school-aged children.   The methods, activities and goals of most projects are explained briefly.  All the projects had the shared goal of increasing student information literacy, and all projects explained outlined the steps that teachers and librarians took to collaborate.

 

Evaluation: This article serves as a strong reminder that a librarian at the high school level must extend themselves and reach out to high school teachers if the goal is collaboration because many teachers at the high school level struggle to make time for collaboration (there is no time for collaboration structured into their day), or they do not know what the library has to offer.  The librarian may be surprised by the amount of time collaboration takes, but in cases shared in the article, collaboration resulted in faculty that were more willing to collaborate and use the library in the future.