All together now?
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Date
2019
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International Association of School Librarianship Conference
Abstract
The paper explores the meaning of the recently drafted National Policy for Library and Information
Services (NPLIS) for school librarianship in South Africa. It argues that, after years of failed advocacy, a
convergence of thinking across the LIS ecosystem enabled the policy project and gives new hope for the
transformation of the school library sector. The investigations throughout 2017 sought to find out from a
wide range of role-players what and whose behaviour they believed should be changed. The paper
describes our evidence-gathering across the country and how the data were analysed into broad themes
around which the policy was built. The paper pulls out the threads on school LIS policy but also
highlights the principles that tie them to the overarching policy. Thus, the insistence on an ecosystems
approach calls for innovative strategies to counter long-established silo-thinking.
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LIS policy, South Africa, School libraries
Citation
Hart, G & Nassimbeni, M. (2019). All together now?. IASL Annual Conference Proceedings. 10.29173/iasl7388.