Role

This study examines the role of the teacher-librarian as perceived by ',..eacher-librarians themselves and by school principals. The specific problems addressed are: (1) whether there are differences in present perceptions of the teacher-librarian's role by principals and teacher-librarians; (2) whether the two groups have differing perceptions of the teacher-librarian's future role; (3) whether there are differences in the perceptions of the teacher-librarian's role between urban and rural principals and urban and rural teacher-librarians; and (4) whether there are differences in perceptions of the teacher-librarian role among teacher-1ibrarians according to training, years of experience, and time allotment in the library. A list of 79 role statements organized into 7 role segments was derived from the literature and validated by experts. The list was submitted to a random sample of Alberta teacher-librarians an