In cooperation with Texas A&M University's Center for Teaching Excellence, an interactive Library Assignment Workshop was developed to educate teaching faculty on designing effective library related assignments. Feedback from workshop attendees was positive and supported repeating the workshop several times per year, with a focus on new…

Examines changes that have been occurring in library and information science (LIS) programs. Topics include changes in library school names; core competencies; curriculum changes; the KALIPER Project, which is investigating LIS curricular changes; distance learning; degrees; and a ranking of the best LIS programs. (LRW)

Provides basic, descriptive information about informational text experiences offered to children in 20 first-grade classrooms selected from very low and very high socio-economic-status school districts. Finds a scarcity of informational texts in these classroom print environments (particularly the low socio-economic status schools)--there were…

Provides examples of activities to help student learn to critically evaluate information from the World Wide Web based on the Big6 approach to library and information skills instruction. Lists criteria for evaluating Web sites and describes how to relate activities to student projects so relevant Web sites can be used. (LRW)

Includes "e-Skeletons: The Digital Library as a Platform for Studying Anatomical Form and Function"; Canonicalization: Fundamental Tool to Facilitate Preservation and Management of Digital Information"; "The ISI Web of Science - Links and Electronic Journals: How Links Work Today in the "Web of Science," and the…

Presents a selected annotated list of recent publications dealing with technology and learning that will be helpful for school library media centers. Subject categories include research studies; research reviews and bibliographies; and non-research articles and information sources. (LRW)

Discussion of language barriers when using multilingual digital library collections on the Internet focuses on query translation and document translation in a Chinese-English information retrieval system called MTIR. Highlights include a bilingual dictionary; machine transliteration algorithm; design issues for document translation; HTML tags; and…

Describes the Ohioview Research Consortium, composed of university libraries and government agencies, which was formed to promote the low-cost distribution of government civilian satellite data for public use. Discusses the strong leadership role that the university library component has been called upon to play. (LRW)

Discusses how modern library systems can protect collections while not impeding disabled persons' access to facilities. Describes the problem with swinging gates and offers some security alternatives, such as high-tech gateless security, video detection, and voice alarms, that do not impede disabled persons' movements. (RJM)

Discusses the concept of a digital library and the utility of space/time referencing. Describes the unified space/time/keyword/format search and retrieval and indexing system of the ISLA (Information System for Los Angeles) at the University of Southern California. Focuses on the practical application of space/time referencing and methods of…

Challenges special-education teachers to be efficient users of the World Wide Web to meet their students' learning needs. Information is provided on finding your way in cyberspace, terminology and accessing online tutorials, browsing (links and navigation), and finding specific information. Educator Web sites are provided. (CR)

An analysis of 599 reviews of children's books from six reviewing journals for 1995-96 was compared to earlier studies, revealing great variation in adequacy of reviews. School Library Journal provided the most complete bibliographic and ordering information but no single journal supplied all the information librarians need for purchasing juvenile…

To integrate the library fully into the educational life of an elementary school, the following design principles are offered: (1) locate the library centrally within the school; (2) provide separate areas for different functions; (3) design the entire space so that it can be observed by one adult; and (4) incorporate computers seamlessly into the…

Introduces an Electronic Libraries (eLib) project--Electronic Submission and Peer Review (ESPERE), which examines cultural and technical problems of conducting electronic peer review for biomedical academics and learned-society publishers. Describes interviews with seven learned-society publishers, analysis of a questionnaire sent to 200 editorial…

Eight lesson plans using materials developed for the Perseus Project are provided that show how this site may be used in the classroom. The plans also provide models for preparing students to make increasingly sophisticated use of the resources included in Perseus. (Author/VWL)