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Edith Cowan University

The Australian School Libraries Research Project

A partnership between the Australian School Library Association (ASLA),
the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and
Edith Cowan University (ECU).

General information about the project.

  • Target participants
    • Survey 1: Australian School Libraries – State of the nation
      Person in charge of the school library.
    • Survey 2: Australian School Library Personnel and roles
      All school library personnel eg. teacher librarian, librarian, teacher, library technician, library officer/assistant/clerk, library volunteer

Preliminary Statistics

Total participants in survey 1 = 863
Number of incomplete (null) responses = 171
Revised total participants in survey 1 = 692

State

Schools

Incomplete

Rev Schools

% Total

ACT

20

2

18

2.601

NSW

136

30

106

15.317

NT schs

5

1

4

0.578

NT Remote Schs

65

0

65

9.393

NT schs

70

1

69

9.971

QLD

147

25

122

17.63

SA

123

30

93

13.439

TAS

76

14

62

8.959

VIC

162

40

122

17.63

WA

126

29

97

14.017