Of Special Interest: Attitudes of Preservice and Inservice Teachers Toward Working With School Librarians

This research focused on how preservice teachers and inservice teachers relate to working cooperatively with school librarians in that instructional process. They study involved 98 preservice teachers who were enrolled in the School of Education, University of Pittsburgh, and 96 inservice teachers who had graduated from the same school and similar programs three to five years earlier. The data were collected using questionnaires. No significant differences were found between the attitudes of preservice and inservice teachers. The size of the school was found to be a significant factor in teachers' attitudes toward cooperative work. Significant but weak relationships were found between teachers' attitudes and some variables related to teachers' knowledge about school librarians and to library education that the teachers were engaged in.