School Libraries and Increased Student Achievemnt: What's the Big Idea?

Tami Sickels
IL-Research About Information Literacy


Scott, K. Poulder, L.  (2007).   School Libraries and Increased Student Achievement:  What's the Big Idea?  Education., 127(3), 419-439

This article, which was written as a paper, shows the research being done to move school libraries from the reputation of being a place of quiet place of order where the librarian sat behind a desk and offered very little assistant to students to a place where collaboration and activity are encouraged. 
The purpose of this research was to answer several questions about library learning and informational skills in students.   There is a brief history of the history of the public school library program and also the impact that No Child Left Behind (NCLB)  has had on the school library.  The writers tell the process of developing the curriculum for the library and boost student achievement.  This is an ongoing process.  This paper and study were very interesting to me because there are so many libraries that are not trying to boost development of student information literacy and the library program in these schools do not cover topics across the curriculum and cover standards in other curriculum areas besides the library.  This was a great study to introduce what's being done in some of these libraries to make things better.