Endorsements
Title page
Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 What Do School Library Professionals Contribute to Student Learning and Support? A Focus on Australia and the UK
Teacher librarian and school librarian: What is the difference?
What teacher librarians do
What school librarians do
Things they are expected to do, be and have
Further thoughts
References
2 School Libraries and Reading Engagement for Literacy
Reading engagement and literacy
Reading for pleasure and literacy
Reading for pleasure and opportunity
Why the school library professional is a model that matters
Library professionals as literacy educators and supports of reading engagement
Australian and UK school library professionals as literacy educators
Australian and US school library professionals' divergence on reading for pleasure
Further thoughts
References
3 Librarians Supporting Struggling Literacy Learners Beyond the Early Years
The challenge of low literacy
Who are the struggling literacy learners?
Where libraries and library professionals fit in
Increasing visibility of school library professionals' role
How to implement and measure the efficacy of literacy supportive interventions
Further thoughts
References
4 School Libraries and Reading Engagement for Student Wellbeing
School libraries fostering wellbeing through reading engagement
Reading, emotions and escape
Connecting with characters
Role models
Perspective-taking and personal development
Pleasure in being read to
Resourcing for inclusion
Further thoughts
References
5 School Libraries, Health Resourcing and Information Literacy
Health literacy and information literacy
Searching in the library.

Checking information is correct from library manager perspectives
Resourcing for teachers and parents
Non-fiction books
Further thoughts
References
6 Librarians Creating Environments for Reading and Wellbeing
Insights from the Project on how students value the library environment
Students seeking sanctuary from weather conditions
Students with developing social skills, anxiety and introversion
Students seeking mentor and mentee relationships
Students seeking to reset
Students who love to read
Students who are creative
What library environments are Australian teacher librarians expected to foster?
Warm and welcoming
Flexible and supportive of learning
Vibrant and stimulating
Adaptive, safe and stimulating spaces
Further thoughts
References
7 Challenges to Visibility and Advocacy for School Libraries and Staff
Challenges of the professional role and burgeoning workload
Issues with training, morale and the greying workforce
Challenges of deprofessionalisation
Challenges of inconsistent nomenclature and shrinking staffing
Challenge of conducting research and dissemination of a credible research base
Challenges to the existence of a physical library
Further thoughts
References
Conclusions and Directions for Future Research
School libraries and COVID-19
Collaboration for learning
Wellbeing research that has broader generalisability and applicability
Workload realities
Establishing library and researcher partnerships
Capturing the evolving interests of young people: #Booktok on TikTok
Final thoughts
References
APPENDIX 1 Background and Methods of My Research Projects
2020 TikTok and young people
2020 School libraries promoting wellbeing in Australian primary and secondary schools
Semi-structured interview questions relevant to Chapter 4.

Semi-structured interview questions relevant to Chapter 5
Semi-structured interview questions relevant to Chapter 6
2020 Library Workforce Project
References
APPENDIX 2 A Place to Get Away from It All: Five Ways School Libraries Support Student Wellbeing
1. They can be safe spaces
2. They provide resources for wellbeing
3. They help build digital health-literacy skills
4. They support reading for pleasure
5. They encourage healing through reading
References
Index.