The Report

The strategic report       

The full report  which was updated in October 2010 to include an analysis by region, originally published separately.

Links

The House of Commons launch led to several news items: 

• Times Educational Supplement (30 July, 2010)         "Fears for future of libraries as a third of secondaries slash book budgets" by Helen Ward

• ATL Support Magazine (Autumn 2010)
  Libraries gap grows
• MLA News Bulletin (Wednesday 15 September 2010)
  (in a report on the School Library Commission)
• "School libraries are too often a wasted resource" by Katy McMullen. School Library Association (SLA) (Volume 58 Number 3 Autumn 2010)
• Referenced in "Effective School Libraries: Evidence of Impact on Student Achievement" by Lynn Barrett, from The School Librarian. Available on line
  National Literacy Trust (2/8/10)
• Fears for school libraries as secondary schools cut book budgets
  
• Flying Start Education Magazine 21/9/10                                                                        

School Library Survey

The report's authors have written the following articles:

• SecEd (September 2010) Getting the most from libraries
• Literacy Today (No. 64, September 2010) "School libraries and literacy" David Streatfield, Sue Shaper and Simon Rae-Scott of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, on the results of a major national survey of school libraries.
• Article published in Matters Arising, the School Governors’ Association journal.

• Article in School Librarian, Volume 59, Number 21, Spring 2011   "Whatever Happened to the UK Survey of School Libraries?
 David Streatfield, Sue Shaper and Simon Rae-Scott 

Other activities:

• Quotes from the survey were used as part of CILIP's submission to the Commission on School Libraries (2010)
• David Streatfield gave a talk about the survey to a committee of the DfE in January 2010.
• Sue Shaper presented at the SLG Conference (April 2011)
• David Streatfield will be presenting at CILIP's Umbrella Conference (Summer 2011)

Past activities

• CILIP report on School Libraries in 2002 commissioned by YLG
• "Survey of Secondary School Libraries" by Maria Smith, Project Manager at the Survey and Statistical Research Centre of Sheffield Hallam University
• Report by Book Trust in 2007
• "Library Books in Schools: Spending and provision in primary and secondary schools in England" by Tanya Rowan, Senior Researcher, Market Research Unit, Institute of Public Finance Ltd

Still to come:

• Preliminary article concentrating on information literacy aspects written for Aslib Proceedings.
• Detailed article on information literacy in preparation for an international journal.
• Article on pastoral aspects of a librarian's role due to be submitted to "Pastoral care in education" or similar professional journal.