Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School Instructional Media Center

A study by Keith Curry Lance showed that school libraries which are adequately staffed by at least one full-time, certified library media specialist and one full-time support staff member, are fully flexibly scheduled, maintain a strong computer network (one that connects the library's resources to classrooms and labs) leads to higher student achievement, regardless of social and economic factors in a community.

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Test scores increased as library media specialists spent more time:

• teaching cooperatively with classroom teachers
• teaching information literacy skills independently of classroom teachers
• providing in-service training to teachers; serving on curriculum and standards committees
• managing information technology

This librarian follows a fixed schedule incorporating small group reading instruction in the morning and K-2 classes in the afternoon.

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