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Download full textLance, Keith Curry – 1994
This study was designed to update the existing research and to examine the relationship between library media programs and student achievement. The schools selected for the study sample were not selected on a random basis; rather, they were library media centers (LMCs) that responded to a 1989 survey of Colorado LMCs. The study relied entirely…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Librarians
Clark, Nancy Baker – 1994
The purpose of this study was to determine whether library media specialists and teachers perceived that the restructuring approach in the Coalition of Essential Schools has changed the performance of 37 services of library media specialists. The perceptions of library media specialists and teachers provided data to determine whether library media…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Hunter, Connie – 1994
This report describes a program for applying information skills through the use of integrated curriculum with intermediate students in a middle-class, suburban community located outside of Chicago. The problem was observed by the library media specialist who found that students did not transfer and apply information skills learned in an isolated…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Flexible Scheduling, Information Seeking, Information Skills
Oregon State Library, Salem. Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse. – 1990
The Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse received reports of formal challenges to 25 books and 1 recording during the time period between July 1, 1989, and June 30, 1990. It is noted that 17 of the challenged items were held by public libraries and 9 by school library media centers, with 21 items designated as children's and young adult…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Censorship, Childrens Literature, Data Analysis
Lealand, Geoff – 1990
This final report, which completes a 3-year evaluation of the educational impact of the appointment of full-time trained teacher-librarians (TLs) in New Zealand schools, focuses on the 1989 experiences of 38 trained teacher-librarians and provides reflections on the total period 1987-89. Information was gathered through a combination of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Cooperative Planning, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education
Budnik, Patricia McNulty – 1991
A practicum addressed the emergent literacy needs of preschoolers at a daycare center. Goals were to increase: (1) the amount of time parents read aloud to their children to 15 minutes a day; (2) the number of library books at the daycare center from 40 to 200; and (3) the number of volunteers at the center from none to 4 who would read aloud to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Day Care Centers
Townsend, Catherine M. – 1990
This two-part report presents the results of a budget and funding sources survey of South Carolina library media center programs. In Part 1, survey results are presented for demographic information, staffing information, funding sources, funding amounts from specific sources, allocation of resources, and categories of expenditures. In Part 2, the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers
McAfee, Dianne Talmadge – 1981
Elementary school instructional media centers (IMC's) were studied to determine the presence or absence of six conditions identified as promoting positive self-concept: cooperation, independence, success, positive atmosphere, challenge, and a feeling of value or acceptance. Following a review by a panel of experts of a preliminary observation…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Diaries, Educational Media, Elementary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources, Syracuse, NY. – 1982
Ten books, articles, and reports published between 1977 and 1982 and cited in "Resources in Education" and "Current Index to Journals in Education" are listed in this annotated bibliography for school library personnel. Emphasis is on the interconnection of learning resources through library networking. Topics included are the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Needs, Educational Trends, Information Networks
Williams, Jeffrey W.; And Others – 1987
This report presents the results of a national survey on the status of the library media resources and services in elementary and secondary public and private schools in the United States in 1985. Also included are selected comparisons of survey results with the 1975 AASL (American Association of School Librarians)/AECT (Association for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1989
Fifteen papers from the Division of Libraries Serving the General Public are included in this collection: "When the Children's Library Meets the Museum" (French and English versions; Annie Pissard); "Value of Library Service for Children Literature in France" (Aline Eisenegger); "The Latin American Literature in France" (Aline Eisenegger); "The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Blindness, Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Wollter, Patricia – 1989
In the spring of 1988, the High School Outreach Community Service Project was conceived at Sonoma State University (SSU) to teach Marin County students to use the academic libraries and to develop search strategies to locate and evaluate information on any given topic. The program addressed community needs, namely the development and/or furthering…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Howrey, Mary M. – 1990
This study was funded by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) to enable the Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) to plan the automation of the state's school libraries. The research was intended to identify current national programs of interest to ISLMA, identify current automation programs within Illinois library systems,…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Automation
Shubert, Joseph F., Ed.; Josey, E. J., Ed. – The Bookmark, 1990
The 15 articles in this theme issue celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the New York Library Association (NYLA), which was founded by Melvil Dewey. These articles provide an overview of the past, present, and future of NYLA and its constituent interest groups, are: (1) "The New York State Library Centennial" (James Corsaro); (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Information Management
Iowa Educational Media Association. – 1985
The role of school librarians has changed as the rapid expansion of information technology during the last decade has placed more emphasis on their participation in the instructional process, and propelled the librarian into a new role as school media specialist. Many media specialists have difficulty in grasping their role in schools. They are…
Descriptors: Classification, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Development
