School Libraries’ Network: A Report on a Direct Accompaniment Experience

School Libraries’ Network (SLN)i integrates 1650 libraries, directed by school formed teams. They must accomplish a wide and complex work, which demands their integration both into school and the community. SLN fast growth conducted to the need of providing technical support to schools. In 2004, this Program started to designate, in different areas, qualified teachers to accompany the teams which run school libraries. Being a recent experience its results cannot be fully evaluated. Nevertheless, SLN monitorship and the feedback from schools and other partners have been showing the importance of this initiative.