School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing.

Endorsements -- Title page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 What Do School Library Professionals Contribute to Student Learning and Support? A Focus on Australia and the UK -- Teacher librarian and school librarian: What is the difference? -- What teacher librarians do -- What school librarians do -- Things they are expected to do, be and have -- Further thoughts -- References -- 2 School Libraries and Reading Engagement for Literacy -- Reading engagement and literacy -- Reading for pleasure and literacy -- Reading for pleasure and opportunity -- Why the school library professional is a model that matters -- Library professionals as literacy educators and supports of reading engagement -- Australian and UK school library professionals as literacy educators -- Australian and US school library professionals' divergence on reading for pleasure -- Further thoughts -- References -- 3 Librarians Supporting Struggling Literacy Learners Beyond the Early Years -- The challenge of low literacy -- Who are the struggling literacy learners? -- Where libraries and library professionals fit in -- Increasing visibility of school library professionals' role -- How to implement and measure the efficacy of literacy supportive interventions -- Further thoughts -- References -- 4 School Libraries and Reading Engagement for Student Wellbeing -- School libraries fostering wellbeing through reading engagement -- Reading, emotions and escape -- Connecting with characters -- Role models -- Perspective-taking and personal development -- Pleasure in being read to -- Resourcing for inclusion -- Further thoughts -- References -- 5 School Libraries, Health Resourcing and Information Literacy -- Health literacy and information literacy -- Searching in the library.

Checking information is correct from library manager perspectives -- Resourcing for teachers and parents -- Non-fiction books -- Further thoughts -- References -- 6 Librarians Creating Environments for Reading and Wellbeing -- Insights from the Project on how students value the library environment -- Students seeking sanctuary from weather conditions -- Students with developing social skills, anxiety and introversion -- Students seeking mentor and mentee relationships -- Students seeking to reset -- Students who love to read -- Students who are creative -- What library environments are Australian teacher librarians expected to foster? -- Warm and welcoming -- Flexible and supportive of learning -- Vibrant and stimulating -- Adaptive, safe and stimulating spaces -- Further thoughts -- References -- 7 Challenges to Visibility and Advocacy for School Libraries and Staff -- Challenges of the professional role and burgeoning workload -- Issues with training, morale and the greying workforce -- Challenges of deprofessionalisation -- Challenges of inconsistent nomenclature and shrinking staffing -- Challenge of conducting research and dissemination of a credible research base -- Challenges to the existence of a physical library -- Further thoughts -- References -- Conclusions and Directions for Future Research -- School libraries and COVID-19 -- Collaboration for learning -- Wellbeing research that has broader generalisability and applicability -- Workload realities -- Establishing library and researcher partnerships -- Capturing the evolving interests of young people: #Booktok on TikTok -- Final thoughts -- References -- APPENDIX 1 Background and Methods of My Research Projects -- 2020 TikTok and young people -- 2020 School libraries promoting wellbeing in Australian primary and secondary schools -- Semi-structured interview questions relevant to Chapter 4.

Semi-structured interview questions relevant to Chapter 5 -- Semi-structured interview questions relevant to Chapter 6 -- 2020 Library Workforce Project -- References -- APPENDIX 2 A Place to Get Away from It All: Five Ways School Libraries Support Student Wellbeing -- 1. They can be safe spaces -- 2. They provide resources for wellbeing -- 3. They help build digital health-literacy skills -- 4. They support reading for pleasure -- 5. They encourage healing through reading -- References -- Index.

Drawing on recent research, this book explores the connection between libraries, literacy, reading engagement and wellbeing, providing powerful advocacy support for school library professionals seeking to illustrate the role they play in supporting students' literacy learning and wellbeing.

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