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Purcell, Melissa – Library Media Connection, 2011
A library should be a free place where people can access and share information. Many school libraries have such strict access to Internet resources that patrons are blocked even from many educational sites. Restrictions do need to be in place to protect students from online predators and inappropriate content, but access needs to be carefully…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), School Libraries, Technology Uses in Education, Library Services
Johnson, Tom – Library Media Connection, 2009
School library websites enhance and explain the services provided by the library. Most schools have a library website. Jurkowski (2004) reviewed thirty-four school library websites and ranked the most common features: website links, databases, policies, Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), and websites by subject. These features give patrons a…
Descriptors: Access to Information, School Libraries, Online Catalogs, Internet
Wolf, Sara – Library Media Connection, 2008
Access to information is an essential art of the educational system. The reality is, however, that there are laws and policies in effect that can restrict what information is available to students and teachers in K-12 schools. Selection policies, Acceptable Use Policies, Circulation Policies, as well as federal laws and acts, all place…
Descriptors: Intellectual Freedom, Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, School Libraries
Marie, Kristen L. – Library Media Connection, 2005
An honor system library can be created inside the library media center (LMC). Where students can access free books and magazines that require no formal checkouts. The honor library system at Washington High School, Fremont, California, has become self-sustaining. As many students, parents and teachers donate quality material. No student is ever…
Descriptors: Library Services, School Libraries, High Schools, Ethics
Creighton, Peggy Milam – Library Media Connection, 2007
School library media center scheduling, particularly the fixed versus flexible scheduling controversy, continues to be debated in spite of decades of advocacy for flexible scheduling. According to van Deusen (1999), flexible scheduling is "a plan wherein classes meet for instruction in the library resource center when they have a specific need…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, School Libraries, Library Services, Library Administration