1. The headteacher advocates and facilitates the development of information skills across the school
community.
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2. The headteacher ensures that the acquisition of information skills is part of the school plan.
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3. The headteacher encourages and facilitates the professional development of staff.
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4. The headteacher understands and advocates the role of the school librarian in the school's
instructional program.
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5. The headteacher demonstrates support for collaboration among the school librarian
and
teaching staff.
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6. The headteacher ensures that the school library objectives reflect school goals.
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7. The headteacher ensures that the school librarian has an appropriate
allocation of support staff.
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8. The headteacher allocates adequate, flexible time for the school librarian to administer the
school library.
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9. The headteacher encourages the teaching staff to involve themselves in the development of
school library policies and programs.
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10. The headteacher encourages the teaching staff to invest time in
cooperatively planning and
teaching
with the school librarian.
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11. The headteacher encourages and facilitates the professional
development of teaching staff to
enhance
their understanding and use of information technology.
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12. The headteacher informs new teaching staff about the importance of
collaborating with the
school librarian.
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13. The headteacher supports the development of a resource collection
that is current and relevant
to the curriculum needs of the school.
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14. The headteacher encourages teaching staff debate about information policy.
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15. The headteacher ensures that significant funding is allocated to
the school library budget.
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16. The headteacher actively seeks outside school funding possibilities
that can be used to
supplement the school library budget.
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17. The headteacher engages in regular and timely communication with the
school librarian.
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18. The headteacher visits the school library to observe the work of the school librarian.
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19. The headteacher encourages the school librarian to debate and justify current practice.
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20. The headteacher asks questions of the school librarian about teaching and learning.
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21. The headteacher relies on the school librarian to keep him/her
abreast of developments
that affect the school librarian's role.
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22. The headteacher seeks advice from the school librarian with
respect to issues of whole school
information management.
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23. The headteacher encourages the school librarian to take risks.
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24. The headteacher encourages teaching staff to employ a wide range of
information resources
in their teaching programs.
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25. The headteacher encourages the school librarian to take a leadership
role in the development
and
maintenance of a school wide information skills curriculum.
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26. The headteacher works with the school librarian to develop the
school librarian's personal
professional development plan.
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27. The headteacher advocates that the school librarian be a member of
key school committees
to tap into his/her expertise and schoolwide
perspective.
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28. The headteacher encourages teaching staff to incorporate the learning
and use of a range of
information skills into their teaching programs and
to assess process skills as well as content.
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29. The headteacher provides time release and funding to the
school librarian to undertake
ongoing professional development.
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30. When the school librarian is not represented on a key committee,
the headteacher ensures
that the needs of the school library are addressed.
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31. The headteacher seeks feedback from staff about their impressions of the quality of the
services offered by the school library.
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32. I believe that the school librarian should be a key player in the school's
information literacy
programs.
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33. I believe that a school librarian ought to have a qualification in education
and librarianship.
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34. I believe school librarians ought to be appointed according to a merit
selection process.
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35. Should an unqualified school librarian be appointed to a school, I would
expect that s/he
undertake a specialist qualification in school librarianship.
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36. As the school librarian I expect to spend all of his/her day in the school library.
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37. I believe that staff development plans should address the development of
teachers’
information literacy.
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38. I believe that a school librarian should be timetabled to cover classroom teachers' release
from teaching time.
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39. I believe the school librarian should be identified as an information
technology leader in the
school.
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40. I believe that school librarians should provide a flexible timetable that
best meets the needs
of individual students, groups, and whole classes.
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41. I believe that Internet access should be available through the school library.
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42. I believe that students should have individual access to the school library
during
class time.
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43. I believe that the headteacher should supervise the school librarian.
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44. I believe that school librarians should provide appropriate inservice to teaching staff.
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45. I believe it is important that headteachers act as role models and mentors to staff who are
reticent about the appropriate instructional use of information technology.
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46. I believe that cooperative planning and teaching should occur in the
classroom as well as
in the school library.
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47. When the school librarian is absent, I believe that it is necessary to fill
his/her position with
a suitably qualified replacement.
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48. I believe that school librarians should be supported to achieve promoted post status
and appropriate management positions in the school.
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49. I believe that the headteacher is well placed to judge a school librarian's professional
competence.
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50. I believe that it is the school librarian's responsibility to educate the
headteacher about the role
of the school librarian.
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51. I believe that the school librarian should inform the headteacher about
issues affecting the
potential of school library services.
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52. I believe that the position of school librarian is good preparation for the position of headteacher.
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53. School librarians seek mentorship from teaching staff in addition to that
provided by
the headteacher.
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