Address:
Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
Minoritenplatz 5
A -1014 Vienna
tel.: +43/1/53 120-0
fax: +43/1/53 120-3099

Contact persons:
Mag. Karl Hafner (content responsible)
BMBWK
Tel.: +43/1/53120-4203

Working group “Multimedia school library”:
Werner Schöggl (co-ordinator)
Service centre for school libraries - AHS Vienna
Pädagogisches Institut der Stadt Wien
Burggasse 14-16, A-1070 Wien
Tel.: 43-1/ 523 62 22 - 93278
FAX 43-1/523 62 22 99 93 210

Stephan Hofer
Technical University of Munich
Christopher Reynolds
Lothstrasse 17
D – 80335 München
Germany
Tel.: + 49 (0) 89 289 24 226
Fax: + 49 (0) 89 289 24 275

Wendelin Hujber
BRG/BG
Pichelmayergasse
Pichelmayergasse 1
1100 Wien
Tel.: + 43 1 68 91 815 - 32
Fax: + 43 1 68 91 815 - 37

Margit Macho
BG | BRG Mössingerstrasse
Mössingerstraße 25
9020 Klagenfurt
Tel.: 0463/37502, Fax 27

Jürgen Rathmayr
Bibliotheken-Service für Schulen
im Auftrag des bm:bwk
Pollheimerstraße 17
4600 Wels
tel. 07242 65239

Bruno Sygmund
Klosterneuburg, Österreich
 

Publisher (Herausgeber)
Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture - Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur (BMBWK)

Vienna 2003

Main contents

1. Introduction
“This report demonstrates the important role of the multimedia school library for the current knowledge acquirement and the future school development and provides support for school librarians for the establishment and management of the multimedia school library.
[…]
The report is the result of the second phase of the project work carried out by a group of 6 school librarians, which has been required by the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture with the task of ‘developing a model for the multimedia school library in the secondary schools with the collaboration of school librarians’.
The Austrian model of the central library in secondary schools with the collaboration of students – existing for about 20 years – represented the starting point.” (p. 7)

2. Evaluation

3. Feedback of the school librarians
“The project report ‘Development of a model for the multimedia school library’ was made available to interested librarians at home and abroad.” (p. 57).
Two seminars were held in November 2001 and May 2003.
[…]
Outcomes of the second seminar
With regard to the content, the idea of the multimedia school library is undisputed among the ARGE managers. In the meanwhile the integration of new media into the school library is a matter of course. […] In general an agreement about learning objectives in the library (media literacy, information literacy, research skills, etc.) prevails. On the contrary, about the assignment of responsibilities in teaching within and through the multimedia school library there is however still a disagreement. There is a demand for action concerning the support of the technical infrastructure of the multimedia school library. A good co-operation with the informatics curators is generally necessary.
There are different requirements and points of view in the position of school librarians, and in training and continuing education. On both sides, there are measures to be taken in order to improve co-ordination.” (p. 59)

4. Description of the multimedia school library

5. Realisation

6. Project schools

7. Training and continuing education: fundamentals

Keywords:  multimedia school library – school librarians – school librarians’ teaching role – new media in the school library – information literacy – media literacy – research skills