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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2009
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ869025 |
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- Collaboration in the School Social Network Schultz-Jones, Barbara Cooperation School Libraries Media Specialists Social Networks Information Services Network Analysis Pilot Projects Partnerships in Education Librarian Teacher Cooperation Library Research Interviews Librarian Attitudes Collegiality Social networks are fundamental to all people. Their social network describes how they are connected to others: close relationships, peripheral relationships, and those relationships that help connect them to other people, events, or things. As information specialists, school librarians develop a multidimensional social network that enables them to build a presence within the school learning community, and connect others to information services and resources. How these networks operate was the subject of a recent pilot study of the collaboration networks of five school library media specialists (SLMSs) in north Texas. This article presents the results of the pilot study which indicate that while establishing and maintaining a social network within the school environment is fundamental to the position of a school library media specialist, the network varies in frequency and level of collaboration regardless of the length of service as an SLMS. This article discusses four major themes that emerged from this research, all related to the use of the network structure in the context of the school learning environment. The four major themes are: (1) Social capital; (2) Who's in your Fave 5?; (3) Strategic groups; and (4) Professional learning communities. (Contains 10 figures.)