By Ross Todd & Lyn Hay
School Libraries 21C: The Conversation Begins
Abstract
This article presents an executive summary of the findings and recommendations published in the School Libraries 21C discussion report commissioned by the School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit of the New South Wales (NSW), Australia, Department of Education and Training in June 2009. The authors acknowledge the content of this report is not an end in itself. It is just the beginning of a conversation within the NSW DET community involving the envisioning of school libraries of the future for NSW government schools (2010). Findings and conversation will inspire school library learning commons future visioning.
Ross Todd is Associate Professor, Director of Research for the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL), School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers, USA.
Lyn Hay is a lecturer in Teacher Librarianship in the School of Information Studies, Faculty of Education, Charles Stuart University, Australia.