Motivating Teachers to Use the School Library

Abstract

The participants will be introduced with several procedures a school librarian can motivate teachers to use the school library. Some of the procedures can be applied globally in all school libraries, while others are specific to Croatia, or countries with a similar education system.

Teachers are not the most numerous, but they are the most important users of school library. When teachers support the work of school librarian, he or she can fully accomplish his or her mission. If the support from teachers is missing, school librarian can employ different strategies to motivate students to use the school library, but only with a limited success. In order to motivate teachers to use the school library and to encourage the cooperation between them, the school librarian and the teachers, the librarian can initiate several activities, some of which are to be presented. The inspiration for these activities was James Henri’s presentation at the IASL conference in Italy in 2009.