Helping Teachers Teach: A School Library Media Specialists Role

Editorial Reviews. From School Library Journal. An organized and comprehensive treatment of one of the roles of a school library media specialist-- instructional.
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This is NOT a government sponsored or government sanctioned site. Within the body of literature on the school library media specialist as curriculum consultant, two major issues become apparent: The literature regularly underscores the difference between library media specialists' potential as curriculum consultants and the actual extent of their involvement. While the reasons for the disparity between theory and practice are unclear, there are some possible explanations: In many situations, library media specialists are considered supplementary participants, if they are consulted at all, when curriculum concerns are addressed by teachers, administrators, and boards of education.

Barron approaches instructional involvement of library media specialists from a traditional perspective, with curriculum consultation, the ultimate service and responsibility, described as information consultation. In writing on the instructional design role of library media specialists, Ely Gerlach and Ely, ; Chisholm and Ely, , calls for involvement within the teaching-learning process. The potential of library media specialists in a curriculum design role is directly related to their confidence and effectiveness in applying the skills associated with the use of instructional media for stated objectives.

Pretlow makes the point that many school library media specialists began as classroom teachers and therefore are qualified as curriculum colleagues. Eisenberg notes increased interest on the part of school library media specialists in integrated curriculum planning. All of these sources, and others, point to the disparity between theory and practice.

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In addition, they validate the role of library media specialist as curriculum consultant. As noted above, three recent works offer new insights into curriculum responsibilities and suggestions for moving library media programs to "center stage" in the educational process. While sharing a common understanding of the active curriculum role of library media programs, each work presents unique ideas.

Throughout the body of well-accepted literature in the field of school library media, authors call for various levels of involvement by library media specialists in curriculum and instruction and decry the disparity between the profession's ability to be increasingly active and its actual level of participation. Although many library media specialists remain uninvolved in curriculum matters, their need to become intimately involved in curriculum related decision-making and activities is apparent.