Canada: New Report: "The State of School Libraries in Ontario"
This is the full text of the report that’s mentioned in a Global and Mail article we linked to earlier today.
The report is published by People for Education.
Some Quick Facts from the Report:
• 56% of elementary schools have a teacher-librarian, most are part-time; this is a decline from 80% in 1997/98.
• 66% of secondary schools have a teacher-librarian, just over half are full-time; this is a decline from 78% in 2000/01.
• 57% of secondary schools and 40% of elementary schools have a policy on social networking.
Read the Complete Report (4 pages; PDF)
Filed under: Libraries, School Libraries
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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