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Peer reviewedLowe, Karen R. – Knowledge Quest, 2001
Discusses the alignment of resources, including textbooks, instructional materials, and school library media center resources, to the curriculum based on experiences in North Carolina. Explains resource alignment and considers assessing the library collection, discarding materials, identifying gaps in curriculum support, writing a collection…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Curriculum Development, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedRawlings, Mildred S.; Van Valkenburg, Julie J. – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Describes how an independent college preparatory school library in Tennessee serving grades six through twelve has transformed its space to meet student needs. Discusses maximizing space for multipurpose use; changing library personnel duties to meet changing needs; increasing collaboration with teachers; and changes in the library collection.…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Collection Development, Library Facilities
Peer reviewedCrew, Hilary S. – Knowledge Quest, 1998
Library media specialists are critically positioned to make a significant contribution to instituting gender-fair practices within a school. This article discusses instructional materials, curriculum, and collection development; gender culture and the media center; sports, gender, and different ways of knowing; and science, gender, and different…
Descriptors: Athletics, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Hidden Curriculum
Peer reviewedShea, Frances C. – Knowledge Quest, 2000
Discussion of the responsibility of school library media specialists for collection development and management focuses on the need to include materials on women's studies. Highlights include justifying collection expenditures; collection development guidelines; identifying relevant materials by genre; and the media specialists' curricular role.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Learning Resources Centers
Peer reviewedLowe, Karen – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Discusses the process of weeding, updating, and building a school library media collection that supports the state curriculum. Explains resource alignment, a process for using the shelf list as a tool to analyze and align media center resources to state curricula, and describes a five-year plan and its usefulness for additional funding. (LRW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Collection Development
Peer reviewedBelben, Cathy – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Discusses the value of developing and promoting a natural history library by school library media specialists. Topics include benefits to students; promoting outdoor education; recommended reading for high school students; using technology; and other aids to promote outdoor education. (LRW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Collection Development, Library Collections
Peer reviewedJacobs, Heidi Hayes – Knowledge Quest, 2000
Explains curriculum mapping, a computerized method for use in educators' decision-making in elementary and secondary education. Topics include the role of media specialists with information literacy, collection development, and curriculum support; identifying gaps in skills and assessment; aligning assessments with standards; and timeliness.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Decision Making
