Do school librarians play a role in teaching students to read? Yes, they do, and librarians should embrace that role if they want school administrators and politicians to recognize them as central to fostering literate kids, according to several people who took part in the literacy challenge group. The question of how and what school librarians teach came up often. For instance, there were disagreements between reading specialists and librarians, even among librarians themselves about the role of teachers versus librarians in fostering literacy. Ultimately, the discussion was fruitful, group members said, because it helped them better understand each other's jobs and even to rethink their own roles in the reading process.