This report describes the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a coordinated staff development program to offer certified, non-degree credit to non-professional librarians from small public libraries. Developed through the cooperation of the Central Iowa Regional Library and the Iowa State University Library, the program resulted in a plan…

Describes the addition of a collection management module to an advanced reference course in the arts and humanities, and reports the preliminary findings of a practicum that used the Research Libraries Group Conspectus as a basis for collection analysis in the humanities for a university library. (Author/CLB)

Describes prominent film archives in the U.S., including several university collections. (PD)

Archival research gives students opportunities to appreciate original documents and artifacts, teaching them how to access materials, to treat them with care, and to invest them with meaning, and demonstrating the partnership researchers develop with librarians. Three suggested writing assignments introduce students to special collections,…

Describes an activity for young children that helps them conduct subject searches using an automated system that allows customization of access to a library's collection. Explains a timed game that makes use of subject searching and word searching on the topic of dinosaurs. (LRW)

Presents an annotated bibliography of quality materials by and about African Americans in the areas of poetry, music, folklore, women, picture books, history/collective biography, authors, and professional materials. Activities are suggested in each area for Black History Month. (LRW)

Suggestions offered in the fifth module of a continuing education program for inservice school media specialists are designed to aid in identifying sexism and sex-role stereotyping in instructional materials, and help trainees foster educational equity in their own institutions. The first part is concerned with the promotion of such equity through…

Describes how reference collections can be used by middle school students to evaluate poems as literature and sources of historical fact. Two sidebars list U.S. history reference books appropriate for middle schools and story poems that can be used for an authentification project. (JMV)

Describes source for photographs, including collections at the Universities of Louisville and Texas. (PD)

Discusses the state of newspaper files. Reports on available newspaper collections and developments in these resources. (PD)

This curriculum guide is designed to assist the visitor in the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum. The guide includes information on President Hoover's life and career, as well as classroom activities for students. The suggested pre- and post-visit activities are to reinforce the ideas…

Describes television archives, including university collections such as the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. (PD)

Discusses a reading project undertaken to encourage pupils to read more in English. The article describes instructional materials, including worksheets and flash cards, and suggests useful learning activities, including story reconstruction, discussing a book's main points, and inventing a monolog or dialog. (CK)

Provides a conceptual framework for reflecting upon feminist theory and educational practice and resources dealing with women and education, including a filmography, an annotated list of teaching resources, holdings of the Women's Educational Resources Centre (Toronto, Canada), and listings of women's studies programs at Canadian high schools and…

This guide was prepared to assist teachers planning a field trip to a major 1994 exhibit at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. The curriculum guide is divided into three sections: (1) background information on the Civil War, its causes and effects and a chronology from 1860 to 1865; (2) excerpts from Civil War letters from June 6, 1863 to…