Kommunikation och samarbete. En studie av bibliotekariers och lärares förhållningssätt gentemot varandra gällande samarbete
The purpose of this paper has been to study the relationships and attitudes of a few teachers and librarians as to their co-operation in a combined public and upper secondary school library and to find out what circumstances there may be to exert an influence on their work. The paper has been based upon qualitative interviews with upper secondary school teachers and librarians as well as on studies of literature relating to our issue. We believe there may be different approaches to the learning process, as these are the relations and attitudes of two professions from different trades. That is why our point of departure has been Roger Säljö's theory about learning and, in our analysis, a few of Jean Donham van Deusen's ideas of joint planning and flexible timetabling. All respondents agreed that co-operation could be better, but the teachers were of the opinion that it must not interfere with their time. There was also some hesitation to letting the librarian take an active part in planning the teaching, but she was still regarded as an asset in the working party because of her great skills in information retrieval. Our research shows that a number of circumstances influence to co-operation. These can be summed up as follows:- different attitudes to knowledge, to the idea of a life-long learning and to an enquiring methodology- the attitude of the two managements towards co-operation- the teachers' experience of being short of timeTeachers and librarians equally agreed that the purpose of a school library should be to show the way to life-long learning and that school and library are together responsible for this task.