School Library Standards

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Neither the ALA nor our division, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), sets prescriptive standards for school libraries, including a number of books per student (see Collection Development for School Libraries for further help with this). Instead, we advocate an outcomes-based assessment process initially set forth in 1998, in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, a guide for school librarians in helping students flourish in a learning community not limited by time, place, age, occupation or disciplinary borders. The guidelines of Information Power also explain the importance of collaboration -- joining teachers and others to identify links in student information needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and a variety of print and non-print resources.

In order to recognize the changing role of school libraries now and in the future, AASL has developed new Learning Standards & Program Guidelines for school libraries. Standards for the 21st-Century Learner offers vision for teaching and learning to both guide and beckon our profession as education leaders. They will both shape the library program and serve as a tool for library media specialists to use to shape the learning of students in the school.

Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs is the newest addition to the line up. It advances school library media programs to meet the needs of the changing school library environment and is guided by the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action.

Contact AASL directly at aasl@ala.org for clarification.

For additional information, see Budgeting, Collection Development, and Staffing on this wiki.

In addition, individual states may have standards, which should be reviewed and observed as appropriate; search for your state using these directory pages:
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