A Study on Appropriateness of LIS Education for the Competence of School Teacher-Librarians and School Library Staffs

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26330368
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Aoyama Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Oda Mitsuhiro 青山学院大学, 教育人間科学部, 教授 (00185604)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HORIKAWA Teruyo 青山学院女子短期大学, 教授 (40209292) ; MABE Yutaka 帝京平成大学, 現代ライフ学部, 准教授 (00523680)
• Research Collaborator: NIWAI Fumie 慶應義塾, 普通部, 司書教諭 ; NAKAMUEA Takuma 青山学院大学, 大学院, 大学院生
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 学校図書館 / 司書教諭 / 学校司書 / 図書館情報学教育 / 技能開発 / コンピテンシー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The authors conduct the research activities to clarify appropriateness of professional education in LIS (Library and Information Science) for school teacher-librarian and school library staffs.
At first, they collected professional knowledge and skills from descriptions in textbooks edited for educational programs. Secondly, examined were sufficiency of them, based on the interview with eight educators in universities. Thirdly, by using semi-constructed interview method, they gathered qualitative data on possible gaps between professional competencies and educational programs from eight school teacher-librarians and eight school library staffs,
In results, the authors found inappropriateness of educational program on librarianship for school library staffs, while as to the educational program for school teacher-librarians, there was little gap. They also recognized that not small quantity of knowledge and skills should be add in educational program for school library staffs.

Free Research Field

図書館情報学