blog post: History of school library standards

"History of School Library Standards- A Timeline"

Cawood Cornelius, Library Media Specialist, NBCT

on Georgia Library Media Association, Feb. 6, 2008

count: 1 page (bibliography to be pearled later)

Sharing from his dissertation research, Cornelius shares the history of school library standards in this guest post on the GLMA blog site. It's interesting to note that the first formal report on school library standards was presented and adopted in 1917 at the Symposium of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and these standards were adopted the following year.

This guest blog post does an excellent job of providing context to school library work and the understanding, as Mary Garver wrote in Every child needs a school library (1962), that the library is "the heart of the educational program."