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Þegar og ef ábyrgð grunnskóla flyst alfarið til sveitarfé-
laga getur ríkið ekki sett einhliða reglugerð um skólasöfn
sem segir til um stærð, tímafjölda, bókakaup og því um
Iíkt, því ríkið er þar með að leggja fjárskuldbindingar á
sveitarfélögin. Eftir sem áður verður það hlutskipti fram-
sýnna og dugmikilla skólamanna að þróa skólasöfnin í þær
stofnanir sem allir eru sammála um að séu til ómetanlegs
gagns fyrir allt skólastarf.
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SUMMARY
Survey on the status of elementary school libraries in Iceland
1989-1990
A national survey on the situation of libraries in elementary schools
(pupils aged 6-16). In the Education Act from 1974 it is laid down that
a library should be established at every elementary school in the country.
The aim of the study is e.g. to reveal the situation and the use of school
libraries, their function, personnel, housing and holdings. Questionnaires
were sent to 213 elementary schools, 170 returns were received (79,8%).
The results are shown in text and 14 tables, with detailed information for
each educational district on the number of libraries, number of pupils
with access to school libraries, size of premises, overall size of the collect-
ions, titles per pupil (with an average of 9,6), acquisitions per year, libr-
ary staff and its education, the service of the school libraries, their business
hours, teaching in library use and circulation. The main findings are that
the school libraries are of uneven quality and many schools have no libr-
aries at all. This situation is partially due to lack of official policy and
guidelines for school libraries and to lack of professional debate on their
objectives and functions. Many schools have on the other hand establis-
hed good libraries. Cites a curriculum for primary schools which was
published in 1989 including guidelines for school libraries, refers to the
UNESCO manifest for school libraries as well. Concludes with pointing
out that according to prospective new education policy elementary
schools might be totally run by the local governments in the future but
not by the Ministry of Education (Menntamálaráduneytid).
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