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What Is The Literacy Supportive Role Of The School Librarian In The United Kingdom?, Margaret K. Merga
What Is The Literacy Supportive Role Of The School Librarian In The United Kingdom?, Margaret K. Merga
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
© The Author(s) 2020. Building students’ literacy skills is a key educative purpose of contemporary schooling. While libraries can play a key role in fostering literacy and related reading engagement in schools, more needs to be known about school librarians’ role in promoting these goals. To this end, this article seeks to identify the nature and scope of the literacy supportive role required of the school librarian in the United Kingdom. It also investigates how this aspect is situated within the broader competing role requirements of the profession. Using a hybrid approach to content analysis including both qualitative and quantitative …