An Analysis of Web Pages for School Support Services in Public Library Websites in Japan

Abstract

ABSTRACT The collaboration between public libraries and school libraries is required for elementary, junior high, and high school students, as well as teachers and staff of schools, from the viewpoints of learning support, reading support, improving their own information literacy, and teaching support. The development, presentation and upkeep of such school support services by public libraries are practically necessary to fulfill such collaboration. It is thought that web pages for school support services are essential to public library websites, not only in Japan but also in the U.S.A., in order to inform people, who are especially involved in education, about the existence of school support services and how to utilize them for school support. Also, it is essential for public libraries to provide users with web pages for school support services, children’s web pages, YA web pages, and web pages for promotion of reading on their own websites, in order to improve school education and social education in local community. Furthermore, a contents model of web pages for school support services is proposed through the results of our recent investigation into the contents of web pages for school support services. This contents model is composed of five kinds of material: (I) information on school support services, (II) information on resource sharing, (III) information on cooperative library programs, (IV) information resources on teaching support and the study of teaching materials for school teachers and staff of schools, (V) information resources on provisions for reading and improvements in student information literacy.