Building a Knowledge Bank of Critical Literature for Australian and New Zealand Teacher-librarians and School Libraries

ABSTRACT

This paper provides an overview of Stage One in the development of a new resource about school libraries and teacher-librarianship in Australia and New Zealand. This new advocacy, research and information tool was produced by a team of academics from the School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University. This team have expertise in education, librarianship, and teacher-librarianship. Curating over 100 years of resources for, and about teacher-librarians and school libraries in Australia and New Zealand, Stage One of the Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries (KBANZSL) is a point-in-time guide and record of critical reports, books, papers, and other resources about Australian school libraries and teacher-librarianship. It is intended to support researchers, administrators, practitioners and advocates of school libraries and teacher-librarianship by recording literature in the field in a single location. Details of the project's scope, development and parameters are discussed, and examples of the intended final outputs are provided. The overall project addresses an identified gap in the research around teacher-librarianship in Australia and New Zealand. An opportunity to build on this current research exists, with the intention that Stage Two of the project will extend the resource into the online environment.

KEYWORDS:

• School libraries
• teacher-librarianship
• teacher-librarian-research
• teacher-librarian-advocacy
• school libraries-Australia
• school libraries-New Zealand

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University.

Notes on contributors

Mary Carroll

Mary Carroll is an Associate professor and Associate Head of School in the School of Information and Communication Studies at CSU. Mary’s research interests include library and information education and library history.

Kasey Garrison

Kasey Garrison is a Senior Lecturer teaching in the Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) at CSU. Kasey’s research focuses on diversity and social justice in youth literature.

Judy O’Connell

Judy O’Connell is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer teaching in the Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) at CSU. Judy’s research interests include digital scholarship, instructional design, and social media in practice.

Simon Wakeling

Simon Wakeling is a Lecturer and Course Director in the School of Information and Communication Studies at CSU. His research focuses on open access publishing and public libraries.

Kay Oddone

Kay Oddone is the Course Director of the Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) and Lecturer at CSU. Her research interests include personal learning networks, connected learning, and critical and digital literacies and pedagogies.