School Library Advocacy

Picked from the Delicious Booklady_Scrapper blog:

23 Studies Find Positive Link Between Library Spending and Student Learning
Released:5/2/2011 10:00 AM EDT
Source:Dick Jones Communications

“Newswise — It is an article of faith among many critics of public schools that there is no correlation between spending and learning outcomes. But it’s not so—at least where library spending is concerned.

When support for school libraries rises, reading scores go up and learning by other measures increases also. That’s what researchers at Mansfield University in Mansfield, PA found when they examined and summarized the results of 23 studies done around the United States and Canada.”

“School Library Research Summarized” is now a booklet and a website. Both can be found here: http://library.mansfield.edu/impact.asp.

School Library Research Summarized:
A Graduate Class Project
By Debra E. Kachel, Instructor,
and the Graduate Students of LSC 5530 School Library Advocacy, Spring 2011
School Library & Information Technologies Department
Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA
(16 page PDF)

Good work!

Stephen