The Changing Face of Collaboration:  ILILE Project

Project:In June 2006 Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries, together with the Kent State University ILILE Program, undertook a systematic investigation of 170 school librarian/teacher partnerships in order to understand the dynamics of their collaboration.

Objective:Better understanding of school librarian – classroom teacher collaborations in terms of team dynamics, the process of collaboration, enablers, barriers, and the role of collaboration on student learning.

Current phase of the project: Quantitative and qualitative data from over 130 participants has been analyzed and written up to a final report. The results will be presented at a Research Symposium jointly sponsored by CISSL and ILILE, The Multiple Faces of Collaboration May 17-18, 2007 at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. (http://www.cissl.scils.rutgers.edu/docs/SymposiumFlyer.pdf)