The National Indian Education Study (NIES) is administered as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to allow more in-depth reporting on the achievement and experiences of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN)1 students in grades 4 and 8. This report focuses primarily on two themes identified during the development of the…

There is no doubt the library world is in a dilemma about Dewey, but the system is hardly dead. In his 2007 book, Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger said bluntly, "It can't be fixed." In spite of that, Dewey is currently the most widely used classification system in the world, employed in 138 countries by over 200,000…

Using technology in the classroom for learning is no longer new and innovative; it is expected and even demanded. K-12 teachers have a responsibility to employ technology tools in multiple ways to teach and foster students' development of 21st-century skills and enhance researching, learning, and creating. School librarians can be instrumental in…

The purpose of this publication, part of the AASL Bottom Line Series, is to provide guidance for school library media education faculty who are preparing a curriculum folio for review by representatives of AASL as part of the accreditation process conducted by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

All libraries surveyed report that their own library school graduates and faculty wives hold positions on their staffs. Both advantages and disadvantages to such appointments are expressed by respondents to the survey. A trend toward the elimination or curtailment of appointment of local library school graduates to the staff was revealed. (4…

Fifty-three directors of accredited library schools in the U.S. and Canada responded to requests for information on specific library school salaries, which were then tabulated by rank. (LS)

The publication commemorates the first twenty-five years of Western Michigan University's School of Librarianship. The work is comprised of three sections which mark the most significant periods of development: the founding years, 1945-56; the period of graduate accreditation and attainment of new physical facilities 1956-63; and the years…

Reports on interviews with four students at the School of Information and Library Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo. (PF)

This article examines the content of the professional education of archivists and discusses training in archival techniques and the subject knowledge required of archivists. (Author)

Description of the AALS Meeting, College Park, Md., Jan. 24-26, 1969.

Considers a number of questions related to general problems in library education, including those concerning constraints, professional perceptions of the library, technology, value systems, and creativity. (FM)

This paper explores the differences and similarities of the three library schools educating librarians and information professionals in Greece. The structure of higher education in Greece has recently undergone major changes (2002) integrating technological institutions and universities under one umbrella that of higher education. As a result,…

This study investigated as to how the school librarian acts as a change agent for effective integration of technology in the school curriculum. Four teachers from a Midwestern junior high school participated in this project. The research was conducted as a case study using grounded theory methods for generating theory and analyzing data. To inform…