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Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Library Development and Services. – 1972
The purpose of this State plan is to provide a focus for the continued development of library services in Maryland. It presents an overview of the present situation and a plan of action that will implement the recommendations of recent studies, reports, legislation, and discussions by many individuals, committees, and other groups. It indicates in…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Library Planning, Library Services, Objectives
Baykan, Mary – Computers in Libraries, 2006
This article explains how the Maryland public library community used data from a citizen poll to support increases in government funding. With a major grant from the Division of Library Development Services (the official name for the Maryland state library), the public library community hired a nationally known pollster, Potomac, Inc., to conduct…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Public Opinion, Financial Support, Federal Aid
Minkel, Walter – School Library Journal, 2002
Describes a statewide language-development program developed among Maryland's city, county, and regional library systems to help parents prepare their preschoolers for success in school. Discusses child development, the role of libraries, storytelling training, and preschool literacy efforts by the Public Library Association; and lists Web…
Descriptors: Child Development, Language Acquisition, Library Role, Library Services
Jones, Thea – School Library Media Quarterly, 1992
Describes a successful campaign mounted by the Maryland Educational Media Organization for passage of a resolution supporting funding for school library media programs at the Maryland Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services in 1990. A copy of the resolution is included. (MES)
Descriptors: Conferences, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support, Learning Resources Centers
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Smith, Barbara G., Ed. – Library Hi Tech, 1996
Describes information technology programs in Maryland, including the Sailor Project, that created a statewide telecommunications network providing Internet access without charge from libraries, homes, offices, schools, and shopping malls; University of Maryland initiatives; distance learning in higher education; and a project that allows worldwide…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Distance Education, Higher Education, Information Networks
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Library Development and Services. – 1989
The goals and guiding principles of the Maryland State Library Network are defined by the State Library Network Planning and Resource Sharing Task Force. The following goals are asserted: (1) state residents will have improved access to the state's information resources through the work of a State Library Network Coordinating Council; (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Economic Factors, Futures (of Society), Information Technology
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Library Development and Services. – 1973
The formulation, implementation, and evaluation of the Title II program objectives are reported by three groups. The State Title II administrators report the procedures of management, needs assessment, information dissemination, and evaluation for the program in a question-answer form, and present statistical summary charts of data from every…
Descriptors: Administration, Annual Reports, Educational Media, Educational Needs