Collaboration – building block and stumbling block in teaching of information and reading literacy : Perceptions of academic and school librarians

Fras Popović, Sabina (author), Vilar, Polona (author)

Collaboration between librarians and teachers within formal education, in teaching various literacies has long been recognized as one of the most effective ways of teaching. The paper analyses, using data from three studies, aspects of collaboration between librarians and teachers at primary, secondary and tertiary level. Three research questions focus on forms and extent of collaboration, its elements and approaches, and challenges and obstacles. Results point to still existing differences between higher education and lower levels of education, and to large differences between librarians and teachers in their behaviours, values, attitudes and practices. This opens an important debate around how to effectively approach these issues to improve collaboration, and which of the issues belong to the personal, institutional, and national level. The paper provides some suggestions on how to address these issues at all three levels.

• Language: English
• Keywords: information literacy, reading literacy, teaching, collaboration, academic librarians, school librarians
• Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 04.04.2026
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. [173]-191
• Numbering: Vol. 49, nr. 9
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-182167
• UDC: 027.7/.8
• ISSN on article: 1920-7239
• DOI: 10.5206/cjils-rcsib.v49i1.23114
• COBISS.SI-ID: 276063747
• Publication date in RUL: 27.04.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: The Canadian journal of information and library science
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Western Libraries, University of Western Ontario on behalf of the Canadian Association for Information Science
• ISSN: 1920-7239
• COBISS.SI-ID: 275896835

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: informacijska pismenost, bralna pismenost, poučevanje, sodelovanje, visokošolski knjižničarji, šolski knjižničarji

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: V5-2361-2023
• Name: Bralni vzori: bralne navade strokovnih delavcev v vrtcih, šolah in fakultetah ter splošnih knjižnicah

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0361-2017
• Name: Modeliranje bibliografskih informacijskih sistemov