2.+Information+Resources

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==[|Toward a Theory of Collaboration for Teachers and Librarians] == A paper on the AASL website, this is important to me because it begins with a definition of collaboration and moves to impediments of collaboration and recommendations for improving the situation.

==[|Why Isn't Information Literacy Catching On? SLJ's national survey identifies the obstacles - and what you can do to overcome them] == This was written in 2003 but I still think it's a place to start "With little awareness among educators about information literacy, it's no wonder that only 15 percent of elementary school teachers and 21 percent of junior high school and high school teachers collaborate with media specialists on teaching these skills."

==[|Strength in Numbers: Data-driven collaboration may not sound sexy, but it could save your job] ==

In this month's SLJ; the article also suggests additional resources to read.
==[|Teacher-School Library Media Specialist Collaboration through Social Marketing Strategies: An Information Behavior Study] == "school library media specialists, as marketers of a socially useful service, need to build trust for themselves and promote the collaborative process as a socially and professionally rewarding activity. Toward this end, school library media specialists-as-marketers have the responsibility for developing a social market environment conductive to collaboration between teachers and school library media specialist."

[|Proactivity and Reflection: Tools to Improve Collaborative Experiences]
Written by Doug Johnson, some great practical tips and a bibliography for more reading.

Collaboration Works - When It Happens
Keith Curry Lance, Marcia L. Rodney, Bill Schwartz Teacher Librarian June 2010 I can not find a "free" link to this on the web but I copies this article last spring when I got a trial subscription to the magazine. This article contains primarily facts and figures. Forty five percent of teachers report that the rarely or never collaborate with teachers and another 40 percent say they do so once or twice a year. What is not clear to me is how they define collaboration.

[|Collaboration Words O'Wisdom a.k.a. Things that other people learned the hard way…]
These are short pieces on school librarian Deb Logan's web page. reprinted from her book, Information Skills Toolkit: Collaborative Integrated Instruction for the Middle Grades.

=Four Action research Projects on Collaboration: With all this research, why do we still need help? =
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|An Action Research Plan for Increasing Collaboration] ==
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Effects of Social Marketing on Collaboration in the Media Center: An Action Research Project] ==
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Collaboration Among Teachers and Teacher Librarians: Working Towards Full Implementation] ==
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Teacher-Librarian Collaboration: Creating Partnerships That Work (An Action Research Project]) ==