These four nationally agreed policy statements provide guidance on the expectations for school library staffing, funding and resourcing, information literacy and digital literacy. School library staff are encouraged to use these policies in planning and advocating. School leaders should reference the policies to make certain that they are meeting the needs of their school community.

Mental health and well-being is of increasing concern on college campuses. Grounded in feminist pedagogy and an ethic of care, this study asks what roles instruction librarians perceive themselves as having in supporting student mental health and what strategies they use in the classroom to address student affect and emotions.

This report draws on desk research, alongside a combination of interviews, workshop discussions and pre-workshop surveys with librarians and individuals involved in library consortia. The report tackles a simple question - how can open access books be more successfully integrated into scholarly libraries?

This paper, written from the perspective of a school, public, and academic librarian, discusses why school librarians are essential - not only for the K-12 students, but for information professionals and users of information everywhere.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) published the joint statement: Standards of professional excellence for teacher librarians, which outlines the professional knowledge, practice and commitment expected of teacher librarians working at a level of excellence. Its major aim wass to achieve national consensus on what constituted excellent...