Presented is an overview of three teacher training programs developed by the Special Education Instructional Materials Center/Regional Media Center Network. (CB)

Considers the incorporation of school libraries and media centers into a national bibliographic system, and discusses questions pertaining to the contributions, advantages, points of access, obstacles, and international implications of such a program. A bibliography of additional readings is provided. (FM)

Condensed from authors' articles in "Exceptional Children, Volume 35 (December 1968), 263-72

An outline of the major considerations involved in attempting to use television as an aid in bringing about functional literacy on a wide scale. (LS)

Briefly discusses the six National Goals for Education and America 2000 and presents a paper prepared by the American Association of School Librarians called "Implementing the National Goals for Education through School Library Media Programs." Suggestions for library media specialists are included, and materials prepared by the…

The increasing number of nonprint holdings in libraries and media centers throughout the country emphasizes the need for a network approach to the control of nonprint media. Programs such as the Library of Congress' MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) have provided a common machine readable record of book and monographic holdings, resulting in a…

The thesaurus delineates the standard terminology used to index and retrieve instructional materials for exceptional children in the Special Education Instructional Materials Center/Regional Media Centers Network. The thesaurus is presented in three formats: an alphabetical listing (word by word rather than letter by letter), a rotated index, and…

This second article about the long-term effects of the 1964-67 national media demonstration study, Project Discovery, discusses some issues in media management and points out several important factors to be considered in planning the management of media for accessibility. (CMV)

Discusses sequential art, also known as comic books or graphic novels, as reading motivators, as content, as literature, and as the subject itself. Includes comic resources for school library media specialists and describes the White House Conference that Laura Bush has promoted that has given library media centers national visibility. (LRW)

This paper outlines changes and developments in school library/media center programs around the world, emphasizing the problems faced by librarians and educators in developing countries, the efforts being made to establish school library services, the support which developed countries can give to these efforts, and the rise of national school…

In a presentation at a symposium on educational media for teaching the deaf (1974), the author discusses trends in instructional technology and programs providing educational services for handicapped children, focusing on the new Learning Resource Center Network. (LS)

This report of a study of the state of networking in school library media programs nationwide and the role of such programs in the National Program for Libraries and Information Services covers the rationale for inclusion of these programs in library networks, contributions of such programs to a national program, the benefits to the users of…

The document outlines aspects of the new National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped (NCEMMH), whose establishment was approved by Public Law 91-61 in August, 1969. It will provide a setting where special education educators and educational technologists can create, design, and develop new instructional tools and…

Names, addresses, and phone numbers of state liaison representatives (SLRs) to the National Network for Curriculum Coordination in Vocational and Technical Education are listed by region, along with brief reports of what is available at instructional materials labs across the country and some current curriculum development activities. (MF)