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Tuck, Kathy D.; Holmes, Dwight R. – National Education Association, 2016
This study analyzes data collected between 2000 and 2013 from the annual National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) Local Education Agency (School District) Universe Survey; the NCES Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS); and the U.S. Census Bureau Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Survey (SAIPE). The findings…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Media Specialists, Learning Resources Centers, School Libraries
Tuck, Kathy D.; Holmes, Dwight R. – National Education Association, 2016
At the request of New Business Item: 89 (NBI: 89) adopted at the 2015 NEA Representative Assembly, this study examines the extent to which students have access to public school library/media centers with qualified staff and up-to-date resources. The study explores trends in library/media center openings and closings as well as staffing patterns…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Media Specialists, Learning Resources Centers, School Libraries

Klassen, Tim W. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1997
The creation of an information technology center at the University of Oregon Science Library is described. Goals included providing access to Internet-based resources and multimedia software, platforms for running science-oriented software, and resources so students can create multimedia materials. A mixed-lab platform was created with Unix-based…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Software Development, Higher Education
Maricopa County Community Coll. District, Tempe, AZ. Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. – 1988
The Maricopa Community Colleges in Tempe (Arizona) have made strong commitments to the acquisition and utilization of electronic technology, as was emphasized in their 1988 Technology Retreat, a gathering to discuss making the best use of available and future educational technology. The keynote speaker, Stephen C. Ehrmann, presented…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Centers
Plater, William M. – Educom Review, 1995
Discusses the design of the University Library at Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis. Topics include storage capacity; workstations; the user-friendly multimedia network information system; on- and off-campus connections to the system; the Center on Teaching and Learning; librarians' collaboration with faculty; and the Copyright…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Educational Facilities Design, Fair Use (Copyrights)
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1991
This document focuses on intellectual freedom as it relates to school library media centers and instructional materials. Its purpose is to help school districts develop and adopt necessary policies that will build a solid foundation for intellectual freedom as part of the school climate, devise procedures that should be followed when an expression…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials

Emergency Librarian, 1991
Comments on the research finding that the personal convictions of the teacher-librarian about what is made available to secondary school students are more influential in the censorship of school library materials than external pressures to censor by school and community members. (six references) (MAB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Learning Resources Centers, Librarian Attitudes

Callison, Daniel – Journal of Youth Services in Libraries, 1993
Contains part of a speech given at the workshop "Student Access to New Information Technology in the Library Media Center." Suggestions for technological change are offered, including carrying out existing functions more effectively, changing work roles and organizational structure, developing new functions, and goals; and implications…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Information Technology

Foerstel, Herbert – Emergency Librarian, 1994
Discusses the censorship of school and public library materials dealing with homosexuality. Topics addressed include social pressures; conservative critics of homosexuality; examples of requests for limited access or removal of materials; and purchasing additional materials to represent other points of view as a more positive solution. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Conservatism, Criticism
Boardman, Edna; And Others – Book Report, 1993
Includes seven articles that discuss censorship and intellectual freedom in junior and senior high schools. Highlights include access to appropriate information; library material selection; dealing with complaints; a list of potentially controversial titles and topics; a history of book burning; the censorship of fiction; weeding versus…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Fiction, Intellectual Freedom
Fisher, Phyllis – Bookmark, 1986
Discussion of ways in which school libraries will benefit from their inclusion in library networks highlights collection management, full access to information, and participation of library media specialists in policy decisions. (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Acquisition
Saykanic, Donna – 2000
For many years, there has been pressure on American schools to restrict or deny students access to books or periodicals deemed objectionable by some individual or group on moral, political, religious, ethnic, racial, or philosophical grounds. Censorship of library books in school media centers is present today. The library media specialist is…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Freedom
Jay, M. Ellen; And Others – 1988
The most recent set of national guidelines for the development of school library media programs, which was published in 1988, identifies underlying changes in the roles of the school library media specialist as well as in the program itself. Viewing the library media specialist as an initiator of curricular activities rather than a purveyor of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
Curran, Jean A. – 1996
This project was designed to bring the resources of the Internet to a rural high school through the school's media center and to provide training to enough of the faculty and students to facilitate its use. A flexible program for five academic departments requiring only one meeting of each department and utilizing written worksheets geared to four…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Resources, High Schools, Individual Instruction
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. – 1997
This publication replaces "Media Standards for School Learning Resources Centers" (1980) with revised standards that were based on prevailing guidelines promoted in the literature, characteristics of educational and library media center environments prevalent in the state as reported by officials in the Department of Elementary and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Environment, Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education
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