ETL504 - Quality Management

At the moment I am struggling to fit the quality management principles in with the view of the library and teacher librarian that I have developed through study in other subjects and even in this one.

At the moment I see the TL as a leader in the school being part of information literacy across the curriculum. The idea that the library should be the ‘learning hub’ of the school has been heavily promoted and is one that I agree with. The idea of quality management though, does not seem to fit in with this. It suggests to me that the library should again be isolated with weak links outside itself.

I can see the library working within a system, and the need for it to work to support the system and its goals, but I just can’t see how this might be achieved.

The Streeton Primary School “12 Quality Principles” (2000) does somewhat shed some light on quality management in education for me. I understand that it is important for there to be quality management within education, that education is the product and students (and their parents) are the clients. What I still don’t get though is how the library fits in to all of this.

I can create quality management within the library but how can I spread this throughout the whole school?