The one year the author was an elementary librarian, she organized a Read Across America (RAA) celebration involving three different elementary campuses. This included bringing in community members to read, free books for students, and the piece de resistance--campus principals dressing up in the Cat in the Hat suit and reading to the entire…

Traditional models of library service and their applicability to the Spanish-speaking community, a rapidly growing group not generally considered by policy makers, planners, and decision makers of the library profession, are examined. Topics include: discussion of terms describing Hispanic-origin people; size of Spanish-origin population;…

Current trends in library education in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the Scandinavian countries, the Soviet Union, and the German Democratic Republic are surveyed. The problems of educating librarians in the developing countries in general and the specific problems in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and…

A study of library school faculty and academic library directors' perceptions of the educational quality of master's and doctoral programs in library and information science and of the professional contributions of library school faculties is reported. Perception rankings are compared to similar studies carried out in 1980 and 1986. (18…

If a district expects each school to have a media center with adequate expandable facilities, sufficient qualified personnel, and materials of the quantity, quality, and variety needed for optimum use, then it is essential that boards of education and superintendents have media specialists on their administrative teams at the district and school…

Media specialists who are flexible, future-oriented, people-centered, and responsive to the democratic atmosphere of the alternative school can play and are playing a prominent role in the learning that takes place in such schools. (Author)

A challenge to bring the revised American Association for School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology standards into the context of individual worlds. (Author)

A discussion of whether the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) should be applied to children's materials. (PF)

Some 220 works by over 30 composers are included in two sections, items recommended for first purchase and items recommended for second purchase. Selections recommended for elementary school collections are starred. (PF)

Describes the application of PPBS to an entire school district and its relevance to the library/media center. (PF)

Speech given before the Conference on Public-Library Relations (New York City, February 8-9, 1968).