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**Purpose of this site **
====Current federal initiatives aim to support quality teaching in schools and universities, a national curriculum, national professional teacher standards and national partnerships to address disadvantage, improve school leadership and literacy. It is the purpose of this site to highlight the role of the qualified teacher librarian in relation to these initiatives in schools. A qualified teacher librarian is dually qualified in teaching and in librarianship (See the [|Standards for Professional Excellence in Teacher Librarians]). ====

==== As American school administration academic, Gary Hartzell (1997), has stated "one of the major reasons why librarians are often overlooked by teachers is the lack of exposure during their teacher training programs to the types of value-added services librarians can provide. Collaboration cannot be fully realized without creating a collaborative culture in which all partners see the importance and understand the benefits of collaboration to themselves, each other and their students." ( Small, Ruth V., Collaboration: Where Does It Begin? //Teacher Librarian//, 14811782, 20020601, Vol. 29, Issue 5). ====

====Many principals, also, have not been exposed to the standards of excellence for qualified teacher librarians and the body of research linking their role to literacy and learning. In these times of school based global management and without systemic guidelines, how do principals develop teacher librarian performance? develop 21st century school information services? How do they ensure that literacy and academic achievement are the primary outcomes focus of their school library programmes? ====

TO TEACHER EDUCATORS
Would you like to help pre-service teachers get the best out of their school library service?

TO TEACHERS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
Would you like to give your students the advantage of collaborative and effective school library use and improve quality teaching and student learning?

TO TEACHER LIBRARIANS
Would you like to help mentor pre-service teachers? This site provides a list of education faculties near you and resources you can use as guest lecturer or for in-school mentoring.

This site aims to provide practical "how-to" ideas for education academics, teachers and teacher librarians to collaborate effectively to improve student learning, literacy and information literacy. National Curriculum outcomes and constructivist, authentic learning through guided inquiry underpin these ideas. Secondly, for principals and school administrators to evaluate and improve their school library services, and to evaluate performance of their teacher librarians, we aim to provide access to specialized research, standards, and guidelines.

To begin, here are some descriptions of what teacher librarians can do for teachers:
What a teacher librarian can do for you (School Library Association of Victoria) [|Top ten things [pre-service teachers should know about school libraries]] (Doug Johnson) All hands on deck: Enlisting your librarian to save your day, everyday (Toni Buzzeo) You and your teacher librarian (Lynn Turner) Ten reasons to hug your school librarian (Joyce Valenza)

It is time for all of us to contribute to teacher education in:


 * how to collaborate and team teach with teacher librarians,


 * how a school library service supports quality teaching,


 * how teacher librarians can collaborate using ICT and Web 2.0


 * how teacher librarians promote literacy and reading,


 * how to work with teacher librarians in teaching information literacy, and


 * how teacher librarians improve student academic achievement: the research.

Further information for academics on pre-service teacher education programs and TLs. Further information for principals on teacher librarian and school library service evaluation.