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School Libraries Make a Difference!

 

NEWS RELEASE
June 1, 2005

For further information contact:
Judy Hoffman, 847/353-7137

The Illinois School Library Media Association recently sponsored a study designed to determine the impact of school libraries on student test scores. The results are startling. School libraries make a difference.

The study results indicate schools throughout Illinois that had the highest test scores also had school libraries that reflected collaborative learning between teachers, librarians and students, an adequately staffed team of librarians and support staff, and a budget to purchase books and electronic media.

In an effort to provide viewers with information about this study, What's New in Libraries? , has devoted its June program to visiting Olive-Mary Stitt Elementary School in Arlington Heights, Ivy Hall School in Buffalo Grove, the Roycemore School and Evanston Township High School in Evanston, and Central Elementary School in Wilmette to see exactly what is taking place in school libraries.

After touring the schools, Sarah Ann Long, Director of the North Suburban Library System and host of What's New In Libraries? said, "I would say that school libraries not only result in good test scores, libraries result in good life scores! It is important to visit your library either in person or online and find out what's new."

To view the Illinois school library study, "Powerful Libraries Make Powerful Learners," visit www.islma.org/resources.htm .

What's New In Libraries? airs in over 70 communities throughout the northern suburbs of Chicago. To find out the channel and time it is playing in your community, visit www.whatsnewinlibraries.org .

What's New in Libraries? is produced by the North Suburban Library System (www.nsls.info) and the Library Cable Network (www.librarytv.org).