On Friday, December 6^th Dr. Gary Hartzell is scheduled to address school administrators, especially principals, and school library media specialists, on School Libraries: Instruments for School Improvement. Dr. Hartzell will share the most recent research on the potential school libraries and school librarians have for increasing student achievement scores and address what it will take to realize that potential at both the elementary and secondary school levels.

Dr. Hartzell is Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska. And author of Building Influence for the School Librarian. He is an internationally known speaker on librarian-principal relationships, recently spoke at the White House conference on School Libraries, is a member of the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries and a monthly columnist for the School Library Journal.