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Crosby, Barbara S. – 1989
This guide for selecting library materials for residents of state institutions is designed to help the institutional librarian who has special groups to serve and who does not have access to standard acquisition tools. The first section lists what information is necessary to order materials, provides samples of filled-in order forms, and mentions…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Institutional Libraries, Library Acquisition, Library Material Selection
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1985
This publication is designed to help Texas elementary and secondary educators evaluate and improve school library media programs in terms of planning, personnel, equipment, facilities, use of materials, and financial support. Following an introduction, the guide is divided into five sections. The first section, Library Media Center (LMC) Program,…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Media, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textHouse, Connie – 1975
To assess the informational and recreational reading needs of the inmates in Texas prison units, surveys were conducted at one male and one female correctional facility. Prison populations were identified by age, race, and educational level. Subjects for the preference study were asked questions regarding: (1) reading background; (2) book…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Information Needs, Institutional Libraries, Library Material Selection
Storey, Dee – 1992
A survey was conducted of randomly selected school library media specialists participating in the Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Texas state "child choice" book award programs to identify any censorship taking place in these programs, and the attitudes of the library media specialists toward such censorship. In most…
Descriptors: Censorship, Elementary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Librarian Attitudes
Nichols, Margaret Irby – 1981
This third edition of popular and useful reference works, which emphasizes the needs of small libraries, contains 975 annotated entries and lists 201 additional titles (most with bibliographic and order information) in the annotations, representing an expansion of 30 percent over the second edition. The appendix lists 116 basic or core reference…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Information Needs, Library Material Selection, Library Materials
Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1990
The first section of this guide about literacy programs in Texas features background information about literacy, including a definition of literacy; literacy statistics; a fact sheet about literacy in the United States; developmental stages of literacy; Kohl's four stages of literacy; characteristics of successful programs; barriers to and methods…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Learning Disabilities, Library Material Selection
Nichols, Margaret Irby – 1979
Designed to serve as a selection aid for small public libraries and to list important sources available through the major resource centers of the Texas Library System, this bibliography lists 804 annotated reference sources with 126 additional works named within the annotations. The books are grouped into 18 major areas, each of which is broken…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Athletics, Geography, Library Material Selection
