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).

Bibliographic citations and annotations are provided for 54 publications related to public library-school library cooperation; the period covered is May 1972 to January 1978. (JD)

This guide provides local New York State education agencies with necessary instructions for participating in fiscal 1970 programs under the ESEA Title II program. The pamphlet also includes information on the basic grant program, special purpose grants, and special purpose incentive grants. (JF)

The scope of these recommended standards for policy and provision of school library resource centers in Great Britain encompass the following six areas: (1) scope and arrangement of the memorandum; (2) the purpose and function of the school library; (3) administration, organization and finance; (4) staff: duties, status and qualifications; (5)…

Iranian school library standards were adapted from American school library standards and have received Tehran Book Processing Centre executive committee approval. While Iran has several foreign schools, libraries and librarians, there are no Iranian professional school librarians to take an interest in the standards. Furthermore, the present low…