When budgets are especially tight, librarians often do not have the spare time for innovation, yet these conditions require the most creativity. This article describes how to set up a once-a-week Library Club that meets during the lunch hour. Since many schools have multiple lunch hours, materials can be set up for two or three lunch times at…

With the new state requirements, many library media specialist students will be required to complete an internship that is more like the traditional student-teaching program. To obtain certification, in addition to their coursework, they may have to complete over 300 hours in a library media center classroom setting. For many students, especially…

This report focuses on the opening of new school libraries and their impact on schools, teachers and students after two years of implementation of the Baltimore Elementary and Middle School Library Project (Library Project). The findings build on the first report of this project and show that it is not just new facilities, but also the added…

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)