Stručni rad
Performance indicators of school libraries
Mira Zovko
orcid.org/0000-0001-6923-6714
Veronika Čelić-Tica
Sažetak
The paper presents performance indicators of the Croatian county library research and development departments in their work with school libraries and getting acquainted with the Library Act and sub-Acts that refer to libraries and/or librarians. A significant advance in Croatian legislative was made with the new unique document on educational standards for all three levels of educational system: pre-school, primary-school and secondary-school education. The document was proposed by the Croatian government and was passed on May 16th 2008 by the Croatian parliament. The standards stated in this document regulate optimal infrastructure, material, financial and staff norms for equitable working conditions in all educational institutions. The national educational standards for primary and secondary education contain regulations that are guidelines for providing equitable working conditions for all pupils. The development plan for school libraries must therefore be adjusted to meet these standards as well as international guidelines for school libraries. These documents are basis for a better promotion of librarianship, and present school libraries as an important factor of school curriculums. The paper gives a comparative analysis of school libraries based on the data collected in the research conducted in academic years 1999/2000 and 2010/2011. The performance indicators of a particular segment are presented in the statistics based on the comparative data analysis for years 2005 and 2009.
Ključne riječi
school libraries; library research and development departments; national educational standards
Hrčak ID:
93690
URI
Datum izdavanja:
14.10.2012.
Posjeta: 1.947 *