The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles of children’s librarians in public libraries. Between 150 librarians from various cities and states were sent a short survey to take that inquired about their responsibilities as well as asked the librarians to review the core beliefs about children’s librarianship and indicate if they felt this value is still relevant and something they practice, still relevant but something they don’t practice, or not relevant and not practiced. Librarians who indicated that they would like to participate in a phone interviewed were called and asked to expand on the reasons they answered the questions from the survey the way they did. Results were analyzed from both the surveys and the interviews and used to find out more about the roles of children's librarians and how they perceive their role and responsiblities.
It was found that a majority of librarians surveyed felt that the nine core beliefs about children’s librarianship, based on the five laws of children’s librarianship, are still relevant and still pracitced. Librarians who were interviewed expanded further on how exactly they implement and pracitce these core beliefs.