Standards/Guidelines

This section contains supporting documents that might be helpful for you in your thinking about school libraries and teacher-librarianship.

• Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada

• IFLA School Library Guidelines, 2nd Edition

• AASL National School Library Standards

• ALA/AASL/CAEP School Librarian Preparation Standards

The International Society for Technology in Education provides standards that supportive digital learners in the school library learning commons.

• NETS for Teachers

• NETS for Students

• NETS for Education Leaders

• NETS for Coaches

The Canadian School Library Association and the Association for Teacher-Librarianship in Canada wrote a document almost 20 years ago that may also be of interest. Achieving Information Literacy may be on some of your library shelves, but it is available online here: http://www.clatoolbox.ca/casl/slic/ail110217.pdf