The author, Director of School Libraries, Delaware State Department of Public Instruction, surveyed practices in continuing education for school library personnel throughout the U.S. through April 1968. This report analyzes a number of apparently successful programs. (Editor/JB)

The new standards are analyzed on the basis of jointure, need, total involvement, approval and authorship. (JB)

Examines data concerning the frequency and intensity of censorship in schools derived from surveys conducted by the American Library Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Association of American Publishers, and Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Public concerns involving school censorship are discussed.…

Focuses on the purpose of the Canadian School Library Association and on its activities in five areas: school library standards, qualifications of teacher-librarians and library staff, professional development of teacher-librarians, information exchange among teacher librarians and other educators, and lobbying. (SB)

Presents a series of recommendations for the successful organization of visits by authors of children's books to school libraries or gatherings of teachers and librarians. Identifying an author's publisher, arranging a visit, purchasing books, scheduling activities, and costs and accommodations are discussed. (JL)

This essay discusses the Moral Majority's tactics, political goals, and textbook and reading material viewpoints with regard to their effect on public and school libraries. Twelve references are provided. (EJS)

Describes the use of a microcomputer system at the elementary school level in which pupils can access information by subject, author, or title as in a standard card catalog. (CHC)

Notes that few school districts are taking advantage of the application of computer technology to library media services. Suggests possible applications. (FL)

Explores complexities of book controversies in Canadian schools. Canada lacks clear guidelines for addressing issues of schools and religion and an authoritative codification of fundamental human rights; thus Canadians fighting censorship must do so ad hoc. (WD)

Listed separately by grade level (K-6) are activities for promoting National Library Week. Included are sewing projects, puppetry, murals, wood projects, bumper stickers, and pairing older with younger students. (KC)

Discusses the author's experiences and beliefs regarding the role of the children's librarian in the reviewing and publishing of children's literature, and the goals of public library service for children. (CMV)

The author objects to learning resources centers that are as flashy and sterile as supermarkets. He pleads for a return to the old-fashioned high school library: a dignified, spartan island of knowledge and tradition. (SJL)

Describes the celebrations surrounding the presentation to the Greenwich, Connecticut Public Schools of the 1979 School Library Media Program of the Year Award. Details of the Greenwich school media program are included. (CMV)

Reports on the history and structure of the 1979 White House Conference on Library and Information Services with recommendations, themes, and resolutions regarding school libraries, networking, public awareness, federal resources, and library skills instruction. Excerpts from major addresses and reactions from information services professionals…

Provides an overview of the school library media specialist's role in working with the gifted student. The media specialist's extended role is also described in terms of the content, process, output, and evaluation sections of Tennant's model; and the knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation categories of Bloom's…