The influence of teacher librarians’ personal attributes and relationships with the school community in developing a school library programme

Abstract

This article, reprinted from School Libraries Worldwide, is a literature review. It aims to synthesizes international research obtained from peer-reviewed journals, theses and professional papers on the personal attributes that a teacher librarian should possess in order to influence the development of a school library programme and the types of relationships the teacher librarian need to have with key stakeholders to be successful. The literature examined spanned a time period mostly from 2000-2018.