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1. ASLA NSW State Library Day
An Enabling Adult: The role of
the Teacher-librarian in creating
a Reading Environment
Susan La Marca
February 2004
2. Children learn about literature
from what the adults around
them do about it.
(Zahnleiter, 1985, p. 187)
3. The SELECTION Aidan Chambers
The Reading
(Book stock, availability, Environment: How
adults help children
Reading accessibility,
presentation)
enjoy books. PETA,
Thimble Press, 1991
Circle
ENABLING
ADULT
READING RESPONSE
(Time to read. (“I want to enjoy
Hearing it done. it again”
Doing it for Formal talk.
yourself.) Book gossip.)
4. Attitude
I have a book that I write down everything I read in.
The kids ask for it they seem to like it. I've started up
a stand of good books to read and they know that
that is a constant reference point for them for books
that I have liked.
School One – Teacher-librarian
5. Attitude
I think we have a role to play in promoting it and
promoting the idea that reading is, is something that
is worthwhile and why don’t we listen to one another,
why don’t we talk.
School Six – Teacher-librarian
6. Attitude
I was told by the then Head of Library that the girls
were all really good readers and that English looked
after sort of the reading scheme stuff, and that the
library really was just for recreation, and that you
really had to do nothing to promote reading because
the girls read.
School Six – Teacher-librarian
7. Attitude
We have to move down that technology road here
and ultimately I think reading will suffer.
School Two - Library Technician
8. Attitude
I think it really comes back to what you think the
function of a school library actually is. I do not
believe that it is a primary function of a school library
to provide extensive pleasure reading for kids. I think
that actually that function is taken up quite well by
community libraries.
School Two – Vice Principal
9. Attitude
Frankly they didn’t read before and they don’t now.
Well they do a bit.
School Three – Teacher-librarian
10. Attitude
What I am doing is what I am trying to do most of the
time. Information literacy is what I am on about.
Promoting reading is for me a secondary thing.
School Three – Teacher-librarian
11. Relationships
Teacher-librarians must work on building
relationships as consciously as they
work on building collections.
(Hartzell, 1999).
12. Relationships - Teachers
Well the relationships you have with teachers is very
crucial to whatever you do. So if I had to give priority
to any one thing that I do it would have to be my
support for teachers and what they do. It could be
literature it could be research but I will work with
them. So that’s where my priority is because I find
that in the long run that pays the greatest dividend.
School Six – Teacher-librarian
13. Relationships - Teachers
I trust or know that she [the Teacher-librarian] has
got training that I haven’t got – I respect and trust
that and I want her to be able to express that. ….I’m
happy to come with questions and bounce ideas off
her.
School One – Teacher
14. Relationships - Teachers
…it (the library) can do its best to promote reading
but if the English department isn’t there then it’s a
lesser program, and it works the other way, I’m not
saying there wouldn’t be something but without the
other but it would be a lesser program.
School Six – Teacher
15. Relationships - Students
Give the kids confidence, help them, talk to them and
help. She's really kind. She'll talk to you and ask you
what you like. That's important.
School One - Student
16. Relationships - Students
We don’t really see the library staff much, we just
pick up the book and they stamp it out. Maybe in
year seven you might see them more.
School Six - Student
17. Access
There is a great deal of evidence
showing that children with more access
to books read more.
(Krashen, 2002, p 2)
18. Access
We have a problem that things will get pinched or
bits ripped out. If we’ve got the stuff that’s hot
enough to read we have to lock it away and handle it
carefully.
School Three – Teacher-librarian
19. Access
What I am doing is what I am trying to do most of the
time. Information literacy is what I am on about.
Promoting reading is for me a secondary thing.
School Three – Teacher-librarian
20. Advisory role of the TL
The teacher-librarian has the specialised
knowledge of reading material which
classroom teachers may lack and can
offer the guidance that teachers often do
not.
(Moloney, 2000, p. 102)
21. Advisory role of the TL
She can aim books at different students and tends to
informally discuss books with students. I think that
that is important for another reason as well - it
creates that atmosphere, its got to be a comfortable
place.
School One - Teacher
22. Advisory role of the TL
We don’t have a regular program of talking to the
classes, we don’t unless we are asked. Perhaps it’s
something we should do, but perhaps with time
constraints we would be biting off more than we
could chew. …We do wander over and talk to the
kids when the classes are here.
‘Do you talk to classes?’
I don’t want to be seen as the one responsible.
School Four – Teacher-librarian
23. Advisory role of the TL
Matching the kid with the book. I would see that as
the best promotional thing that you can do.
School Five – Teacher-librarian
24. Knowledge base of the TL
Readers are made by readers.
(Chambers, 1991, p. 87)
25. Knowledge base of the TL
What Bernadette has been providing though, the
boys are reading - because boys are asking her for
books and she gets them in for them. She seems to
know what the boys like.
School One - Library Assistant
26. Knowledge base of the TL
She (the teacher-librarian) knows more about the
books than anyone else. I think the boys look up to
her to give them advice.
School One – Library Assistant
27. Policy
Um, you need vision, goals, long-term action plan, to
understand responsibilities. In order to make any
program work. We have a problem here in
thinking - throwing money is enough.
School Three - Teacher
28. Collection management
Adolescents, like the rest of us,
read what is available.
(Carter, 1987, p 187)
29. Content management
.. in the past there has been a little bit of tension
between myself and the teacher-librarian about what
sort of texts should go on the shelves.
School Five - Teacher
31. Library Reading Programs
Reading classes are seen as the domain of the
English teacher working with a whole class for
reading is not really seen as part of their role. There
are introductory lectures about the use of technology
but that’s it. Guidance should come from the
teachers, as teachers themselves are supposed to be
the readers.
School Two - Teacher
32. Library Reading Programs
There is no structure, not all of the teachers use that
(timetabled English period) some of them come and
use it for other things. I’m free as a staff member to
go over and help them and recommend books, it isn’t
part of my job though as there is no time allocation
so I don’t always do it. There is no time to develop a
plan or strategy…
School Two - Library Technician
34. Library Reading Programs
Reading classes are seen as the domain of the
English teacher working with a whole class for
reading is not really seen as part of their role. There
are introductory lectures about the use of technology
but that’s it. Guidance should come from the
teachers, as teachers themselves are supposed to be
the readers.
School Two - Teacher
35. Ambience
Reading is not a duty, and has
consequently no business to be made
disagreeable.
Augustine Birrell
36. Ambience
‘Provide the ambience and they will do it’ I don’t
think it would work here. I think. I haven’t tried.
School Three – Teacher-librarian
37. Ambience
Sometimes I think a lot of librarians, it’s the old
fashioned thing, you know like Sir Humphrey - the
best libraries don’t have any students in them.
School Six - Teacher
38. Ambience
….it’s got to be an environment that’s exciting,
interesting and challenging…So if she can break
down the barriers, which she has done, I think it then
opens up so many more avenues for the students.
School One – Vice Principal
39. Layout
There is then some evidence to indicate that
children also seek to define and defend a
territory for themselves.
(Doll, 1992, p 226)
40. Layout
..there aren’t any areas for casual reading and that is
what I don’t like, but we are required by the behavior
of the students to have the tables set up that way
(evenly spaced rows), that is the only way. We have
got to have places where some boys can be
separated.
School One – Teacher-librarian
41. Layout
They have the reading area but that is too small,
cramped, noisy.
School Two - Teacher
42. Layout
We don’t have that nice little lounge room bit – we
can’t put it in and the bit we have is disappearing as
we put more computers.
School Three – Teacher-librarian
43. Display
I was told by previous staff that doing display was
wasting my time.
School One – Teacher-librarian
45. Display
We are limited by time and uh, I suppose it comes
fairly low on my priorities. I know that it would be
good but some things you are not good at and where
time is short you put the time where you think you
will get more of a result.
School Three – Teacher-librarian
46. Layout
They have the reading area but that is too small,
cramped, noisy.
School Two - Teacher
47. External Factors
Schools are bureaucracies –
and no one in a bureaucracy can be
successful alone.
(Hartzell, 1999)
48. External Factors
The identified external factors are:
Budget
Staffing
Support from School Administration
Curriculum needs and demands
Architectural Limitations
49. Professional Context/Debate
There is no properly functioning individual
whose mode of existence is not moderated
or mediated (if not determined) by the social.
(Misson, 1997, p 5)
50. Professional Context/Debate
The problem with library roles, as I see it. is that we
are not really dropping any roles we are just adding
to it.
School Two – Teacher-librarian
51. Professional Context/Debate
Well, um, I think we are torn between the two areas
of information literacy and literacy or literature and
its difficult to do as much as you would like in both
areas at the same time.
School Four – Teacher-librarian