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Miller, Pat – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2003
Discusses how library media specialists deal with budgeting and the need to discover and prioritize the needs of patrons, to explain them to those who supply funding, and to make the funds go as far as possible. Considers faculty needs; student needs; and library media specialist and center needs. (LRW)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Expenditures
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Emergency Librarian, 1993
Summarizes findings from a study that investigated the impact of school library media centers on academic achievement. Findings in the following areas are presented: size of the resource center staff and collection; qualifications of staff; duties of the teacher-librarian, including the instructional role; collaboration with classroom teachers;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Collections
Lynch, Mary Jo; Weeks, Ann – American Libraries, 1988
Reports an interview with the director of School Match, a firm that has created a database of information on public and private schools to assist relocated families in identifying the best local schools. The firm's finding that library and media services' expenditures relates most significantly to student achievement is discussed. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Data Collection, Databases
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Despines, Janine – Knowledge Quest, 2001
Discusses extended hours of operation for school library media centers and describes how to plan for them. Considers benefits of extended hours; planning questions; staffing, including volunteers; costs and funding; security; and patron use of extended hours. (LRW)
Descriptors: Costs, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Expenditures
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Lowe, Karen R. – Knowledge Quest, 2001
Discusses the alignment of resources, including textbooks, instructional materials, and school library media center resources, to the curriculum based on experiences in North Carolina. Explains resource alignment and considers assessing the library collection, discarding materials, identifying gaps in curriculum support, writing a collection…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Curriculum Development, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gillespie, John T. – Catholic Library World, 1988
Discusses the need for school librarians to use multiple selection tools in building suitable library collections and suggests cost effective methods for gaining access to selection tools. Selection aids discussed include bibliographies, book reviews, and catalogs of remainder houses. (CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
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McLaren, M. Bruce – TechTrends, 1994
Describes the management of a learning resource center (LRC) budget. Topics discussed include controlling a budget, keeping records, managing grants, managing petty cash, responding to unexpected expenses, managing capital outlay dollars, managing insurance, balancing budgets, budget stretching strategies, and fund raising. (JLB)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Elementary Secondary Education, Fund Raising, Grants
Miller, Marilyn L.; Shontz, Marilyn L. – School Library Journal, 1998
Looks at 141 high-performing library media centers, providing statistics on grade levels and regions served, services offered, collection size and local expenditures, expenditures from all sources, librarian/teacher instructional planning by grade and service level, principal communication and service level, program services and communication, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Learning Resources Centers, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Collections
Miller, Marilyn L.; Moran, Barbara B. – School Library Journal, 1983
Reports on budgets for and expenditures by school library media centers (fiscal year 1982/83) in 1,179 public and 72 private schools. Tables highlight distribution of respondents; expenditures and collection size; comparison of private and public school media centers; school enrollment; district level library media coordinators; microcomputers;…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Learning Resources Centers
Wright, Ronald J. – School Library Media Annual (SLMA), 1991
Presents five charts that compare data for elementary schools and secondary schools for (1) the average cost of paperback books, (2) the average cost of hardcover books, (3) the average cost of a periodical subscription, and (4) the index of inflation; plus (5) a chart that shows the average cost of hardbound textbooks. (LRW)
Descriptors: Books, Charts, Comparative Analysis, Costs
Harbour, Denise – Book Report, 2002
Explains collection mapping for library media collections. Discusses purposes for creating collection maps, including helping with selection and weeding decisions, showing how the collection supports the curriculum, and making budget decisions; and methods of data collection, including evaluating a collaboratively taught unit with the classroom…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Curriculum Development, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Callison, Daniel; Knuth, Rebecca – Indiana Media Journal, 1994
This report is based on an Indiana statewide survey of school library media center collections, budgets, and services which was sponsored by the Association for Indiana Media Educators (AIME). Completed and usable surveys were received from 823 public and private school library media programs representing 44% of the total possible school library…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Books, Electronic Equipment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shea, Frances C. – Knowledge Quest, 2000
Discussion of the responsibility of school library media specialists for collection development and management focuses on the need to include materials on women's studies. Highlights include justifying collection expenditures; collection development guidelines; identifying relevant materials by genre; and the media specialists' curricular role.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Learning Resources Centers
School Library Journal, 1985
Presents full text of the Educational Priorities Panel Report, researched and written by Robin Willner (May 1985), which examined mandates, services, materials, staff, and use of New York City (NYC) public school libraries. Comments by key people formerly or currently involved in administration of NYC's public school libraries are included. (EJS)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support, Learning Resources Centers
Wright, Ronald J. – School Library Media Annual (SLMA), 1992
Presents five charts and graphs drawn from the latest "Bowker Annual" that show the average cost of books, periodicals, textbooks, videocassettes, and cassette tapes for elementary and secondary school libraries from 1979-89. (LRW)
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Charts, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education
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