The role of Indonesian School Librarian in increasing students’ literacy skills in digital age

Abstract

Literacy level of Indonesian students are low compared to other countries. The most responsible party for this problem is school. To resolve this problem, school should pay more attention on how to teach literacy effectively, particularly in elementary level, so it can increase student’s literacy. Effective literacy teaching should take into account six components or the six T’s which are “time” (scheduled in short time but continuously), “text” (made available in different level), suitable “teaching strategy”, “task” given, “talk” and “test” to measure students literacy level. School librarian can play some important roles to make the teaching successful. They play as a role model for the love of reading, expert in books published and literary works, partner in teaching, leader in literacy program, reading advocate and promoter for resource-based learning.