School library staff and management’s collaboration in Malmö : From the TLC models and statutes.

Research has shown that collaboration between school librarians and teachers is an important factor for the school library to be used as a tool to increase the learning capabilities of students. Montiel-Overall has created a theoretical model called Teacher-Librarian-Collaboration, shortened TLC. Montiel-Overall states that it is not only collaboration between school librarians and teachers that is important to reach higher TLC levels, school librarians also need the support from the administrative management team of the school. In my thesis, I have used the TLC model as a theoretical framework to look at the relationship between school library staff and school management. My research questions are: How do school library staff and school management in the elementary schools in the municipal of Malmö experience that collaboration functions between them? And: How can school library staff and school management’s collaboration in the elementary schools in the municipal of Malmö be understood when it comes to the four different facets in the TLC model? My method was a quantitative survey that was sent out to all school principals and school library staff in elementary schools in the municipal of Malmö. I then analysed the results within the TLC framework. The result showed that even though both school library staff and school management had a positive view on collaboration, in practice they did not fulfil all the facets of the TLC model