An Analysis of the Questionnaire Survey on Cognition of Principals about School Libraries and Teacher Librarians of High Schools in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine cognition of principals about management of school libraries and roles of the teacher librarian in high schools by means of analyzing result of the questionnaire survey which was conducted by Professor Setsuko Koga and the author as a joint research in June of 2000. The questionnaires were sent to principals of all high schools that have a general course of full time in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. The number of respondents was 271 and the reply rates were 40%. From this study, it was found that many principals were positive thinking to manage school libraries and evaluating roles of teacher librarians. But a few problems were found. The most serious problem is that they were negative thinking of the instructional role of the teacher librarian on joint curriculum planning with teachers in subject areas.