School Library Self-Evaluation

A Way to Improve Learning through Collaboration

Abstract

This paper describes the work that is being done in a school library of a Portuguese school, in the outskirts of Lisbon, concerning Information Literacy and its development through the collaboration with classroom teachers. The experience we have been carrying out in the last four years is based on the perception that the school library, by itself, cannot significantly influence students’ outcomes and make them lifelong learners. Classroom teachers must be engaged to fulfil this mission. We will refer to the several ways we have experimented to achieve the best possible results in this area of school library work and to how self-evaluation has enlightened our way.