AASL's new integrated standards are designed to empower leaders to transform teaching and learning. The new "National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries" reflect an evolution of AASL Standards, building on philosophical foundations and familiar elements of previous standards while featuring the…

School Library Journal's 2007 Leadership Summit, "Where's the Evidence? Understanding the Impact of School Libraries," focused on the topic of evidence-based practice. Evidence-based school librarianship is a systematic approach that engages research-derived evidence, school librarian-observed evidence, and user-reported evidence in the processes…

Examines growing literature of paranormal phenomena and other areas of investigation that are in conflict with mainstream science, and considers reasons for this growth and similarities which link these areas together within realm of pseudoscience. The dilemma librarians face in dealing with pseudoscientific materials is considered. Forty-nine…

This discussion of the responsibility of school media specialists is based on the concepts that the mission of the library media center is one of leadership and support and that, to be effective leaders, media specialists must recognize and support basic beliefs about the goals and objectives of the profession. (CLB)

Solving school problems and making policy decisions require that we anticipate how people will feel about an issue or how they will behave. School leaders must understand the values, attitudes, and beliefs brought to different situations. "The School Leader's Guide to Understanding Attitude and Influencing Behavior" makes it possible for educators…