The School Library Media Specialist: Overview

Professor Daniel Callison is the dean of the IU School of Continuing Studies. Formerly, Dr. Callison was the Director of School Library Media Education, School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University at Indianapolis (IUPUI).

Research Interests Include:
Information literacy and inquiry, collection development, and management of school media programs. Dr. Callison is also interested in free inquiry learning environments including school library media centers, children's museums, and inquiry and discourse in student research projects K-undergraduate.

Personal Homepage (2004): http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/iupui/callison_cv.html

Founding editor, School Library Media Research
For several years, the author of a monthly column for School Library Media Activities Monthly concerning key terms in instruction.

In 2008, Daniel Callison received Indiana Library Federation's (ILF) Association for Indiana Media Educators(AIME) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Selected Online Articles:
Callison, Daniel (Fall 2006). Critical Literacy and Inquiry. Educators’ Spotlight Digest; 1(3).
http://www.informationliteracy.org/users_data/admin/Volume1_Issue3_Guest_writer.pdf

Callison, Daniel (Jan. 2001) Integrated Instruction. School Library Media Activities Monthly; 17(5),: 33-39.
http://institute21.stanford.edu/summer/study_groups/callison.html

Lamb, Annette & Callison, Danny (May 2005). Online Learning and Virtual Schools. School Library Media Activities Monthly; 21(9), 29-35. http://www.schoollibrarymedia.com/PDFs/keywordsMay05.pdf

Published Books:
Callison, Daniel and Preddy, Leslie (2006). The Blue Book on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy. Libraries Unlimited.

Professionals: Daniel Callison