Developing the Knowledge Base of the Profession: Research in School Librarianship

Abstract

This paper reports on one aspect of a wider longitudinal study of "Research and Researchers in School Librarianship". Research articles and conference papers published in English over the ten-year period 1991 to 2000 in the field of school librarianship were analyzed to identify the country of the research, the type of publication in which the research was reported, the research methods used, and the aspects of school librarianship that were investigated. Changes and trends in the research through the decade are described and emerging issues are discussed. The methodology draws on studies that looked at aspects of research in the broader field of library and information science generally, in an international context.