SLA Support for School Libraries

•  SLA Standards for Secondary School Libraries
  These standards are a statement of the right level of provision for school libraries. It is intended that they can be used to advocate for improved services in secondary schools to Senior Management Teams, Governors, Inspectors, Politicians and Civil Servants.

• The SLA Primary School Library Charter
  The Charter is a 12-page booklet intended to help you set up and run a primary school library, to point your school towards inspirational and flexible, innovative and exciting library spaces and the development, maintenance and management of the resources held within them.

• Effective School Libraries
  A special offprint of the article "Effective School Libraries: Evidence of Impact on Student Achievement" by Lynn Barrett, from The School Librarian, Volume 58 Number 3 Autumn 2010. The article presents research evidence on the effectiveness of school libraries and is a useful resource and advocacy tool for your library.

    This special offprint is a free PDF download - Download Effective  School Libraries

UK Advocacy Campaign

IASL International School Library Day

• International Schol Library Month
  IASL web pages about International School Library Month. Contains ideas and activities for celebrating your school library and what it means for your community.
• Video: We Love our Library
  Online video produced for International School Library Day 2007 - sorry currently not available due to technical problems - try again soon.

Advocacy Toolkits

• School Libraries – A Right
  
  One of Cilip’s policy statements on school libraries.
• Cilip: School librarians and advocacy
  Lots of advice and information to help school librarians advocate their value
• International Federation of Library Associations advocacy toolkit
• International Association of School Librarianship
  
• American Association of School Librarianship advocacy toolkit
  

UK Research into school libraries

• School Libraries in 2012 - the SLA Survey
  Our report outlines the key entitlements that a school library can fulfil for children and young people.
• Children’s and Young People’s Reading Today
  Findings from the 2011 National Literacy Trust’s annual survey
• Report of the Inquiry into Overcoming the Barriers to Literacy
  All-Party Parliamentary Group for Education, July 2011
• School Libraries a plan for improvement School Library Commission, Sept 2010
• School Libraries in the UK: a worthwhile past, a difficult present - and a transformed future?  Cilip School Libraries Group, July 2010
• Recommended levels of spending for primary and secondary school libraries 
  Booktrust 2007
• Good School Libraries: making a difference to learning
  Ofsted, 2006
• Impact of School Library Services on achievement and learning in primary schools
  Resource, 2002
  
• Impact of School Library Services on achievement and learning: a critical literature review
  Resource, 2001

International research into school libraries

• School Libraries Count
  A longitudinal survey to provide data on the health of the USA's school library programs. Showing the latest results for 2012.

• New PA Study Shows Full-time School Librarian Boosts
  Student Achievement - October 2012
  Having access to a full-time, certified school librarian means better outcomes for Pennsylvania’s public school students, according to new research from the Colorado-based RSL Research Group.
  

• EU High Level Group Of Experts On Literacy - Final Report 2012
  Interesting new report where school and public libraries are recognised as contributors in developing literacy levels

• Is the Library important? Multivariate studies at the national and international level.
  Krashen,S., Lee,S and McQuillan,J., Journal of Language and Literacy Education (online) 6/2012

• School libraries and teacher librarians in 21st century Australia  May 2011

• Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report
  Megan Oakleaf for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) September 2010
• School Libraries Work!
  US National Committee on Libraries and Information Science, Updated 2008, 3rd edition
  
• Libraries are Critical to High Schoolers
  Debra Lau Whelan, School Library Journal 4/7/2006
  
• Canada Links Libraries with Achievement
  Laura B. Weiss, School Library Journal, 5/1/2006
  
• Findings of the Ohio Research Study
  Ohio Education Library Media Association, 2004
  
• Proof of the Power of School Libraries
  Keith Curry Lance, in ERIC, 2002
  
• Irrefutable Evidence: How to prove you boost student achievement
  Ross J Todd, School Library Journal 4/1/2003
  
• School Library Impact Studies
  Keith Curry Lance, Library Research Service, 2006