Research Group on School Librarianship (GRiSB)
website: http://mail.scform.unipd.it/grupporicbibscol/GruppoRicerca.html (in Italian)
Start Date:  April 1993-
Typology:  special interest group - campus initiative

Institutions:
 · Department of Education Sciences Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Padua
 · Veneto section of the Italian Library Association (AIB)

Padova

Address:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione
Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Padova
piazza Capitaniato 3
35139 Padova
Tel.: 049/827 4545
Fax: 049/8274546
Mbl. 335-5954938

Contact persons:
Donatella Lombello
 (Coordinator)
Lucia Zaramella
 (Secretary)
Ademario Lo Brano
 (Webmaster)
  

 Research Group on School Librarianship (GRiSB)

The Group was established in April 1993 at the Department of Education Sciences, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Padua with the support of the Veneto section of the Italian Library Association (AIB).
The Group is coordinated by D. Lombello, Lecturer of Children’s Literature, Bibliography and Librarianship at the University of Padua. Teachers of Education Sciences at Padua University,  the coordinator of the Italian Library Association Standing Committee for School Libraries and Resource Centres, educators from early childhood schools and kindergartens belong to it.

Monthly meetings (3 hours each) are held at the Department of Educational Studies, in order to share experiences and information, discuss and learn from each other, and propose new initiatives and solutions. 
Theme of the AY 1999-2000: Research methodology in the school library.
Theme of the AY 2000-2001: Research methodology in the multimedia school library: Italian proposals;  American and Canadian proposals.
Calendar and minutes of the meetings are available in Italian only.
Teachers of any school sector, public librarians and all those concerned with school libraries are free to participate in the group activities.

The following conferences have been organized by the Group:



The following post-graduate courses have been provided (Director: Prof. D. Lombello) 

·  Professional Development courses on: 
- Education of the school librarian – AY 1997/98, the first of the kind in Italy;
- Education of the school librarian of a multi-media library – AY 1998/99;
- Education of the teacher-librarian for a school multi-media library – AY 1999/2000;
- European Master for the Education of the school librarian – AY 2000/2001;
- Education of the teacher documentalist for a multi-media school library – AY 2001/2002, 2002/2003.

·  First level Masters:
- Master for the Education of the school teacher documentalist, with the contribution of MIUR,  AY 2001/2002;
- Documentalist librarian in school and educational services, AY 2002/2003.


In the last years these courses have been evolved in the advanced training courses taught at Padua University.

 

There is also the information sheet of the Group, concerning libraries, school librarians and reading. 
It is an online magazine in Italian, "I capelli di Sansone" (The hair of Samson), since October 2000.
The last number was published in June 2004. 



Interesting pages in Italian:

 

 

Useful information about the background and the goals of the Research Group are available in English in the following paper:
Donatella Lombello, Education and educational responsibility of the school documentalist in the school of the learning society. "IFLA Journal", V. 30 (2004) No. 3, p. 241-246 (freely available online at: http://www.ifla.org/V/iflaj/ij-3-2004.pdf).

 

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