Stakeholders

(from AASL's  "School Library Program Health and Wellness Toolkit")

Stakeholder support is built through program design, marketing and education. It is the job of school librarians to design programs around stakeholder needs and to educate stakeholders about how school libraries connect to stakeholders’ priorities. 

Here are stakeholder groups and sample "issues, concerns, priorities, and needs."

Students

• Getting good grades
• Being accepted into college
• Need to succeed
• Personal interests
• Time
• Feeling overwhelmed
• Safe places/refuge

Parents

• Student safety
• Knowing assignments
• Helping students with homework
• Students being well prepared for college/work
• Student success

Teachers

• Time
• High stake tests
• Plagiarism
• Need to differentiate
• Student success
• Parent concerns

Administrators

• High stake tests
• Student success
• Money
• Parents happy
• School looks good

Community members

• Successful community schools
• Cost-effective community schools/tax burden
• Students prepared for work
• Image
• Jobs
• Development

Legislators

• Jobs
• Development
• Community satisfied- minimal complaints
• Cost-effective schools
• Good press/PR
• Personal interests and goals