short book: "Every child needs a school library"

Every child needs a school library
Mary Virginia Gaver
Chicago, American Library Association, 1958

Count: 15 pages

(Note: my dissertation topic will possibly come from research on the use of school libraries: the research-based evidence for effective use and why effective use is so seldom evidenced. School libraries as a reading topic, then, will show up often in this blog.)

This is one of the earliest publications that I have come across that issues the call to serious librarianship during the dawn of school libraries. The book / pamphlet itself is available from several university libraries in one of its original versions.

I had been under the impression that the aggressive call to curricular support by school libraries was a more recent concept, but it appears at the same time school libraries are beginning to become the norm. 

I also gained an introduction to one of the pivotal national figures in our school library history. This was one productive lady!

Quick read, but lots of rich history. Cited by both Lance and Todd in some of their research publications. Good to finally see and read it.