Argues that public school libraries must evolve and adapt to a changing educational and information environment if they are to survive. Defines four stages--reactive, proactive, curricular, creative--in the spiral of evolution from controlled collections to the creative learning center that provides multimedia resource opportunities for the…

This essay presents a professional librarian's opinion on a many-sided subject. Highlights include lack of attention to school library media specialists and their needs by library schools and the role of the school library media specialist in the educational process. Ten readers' responses are included. Eleven references are listed. (EJS)

Discusses use of the Internet by school library media specialists and its importance in the development of the library profession. Highlights include how to access the Internet and resources about the Internet, including information about networks as well as three sources that provide introductions to the general concepts of the Internet. (LRW)

Analysis of emergence of learning resources concept and interactive education principles as special phenomena in library science highlights a paradigm for librarianship, evolution of standards for school and college libraries as conceptual models, and textbooks in school librarianship, the library college, and for librarianship in higher…

Provides examples of education programs for school library/media specialists or teacher-librarians in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Caribbean region, and the United Kingdom. Teacher education, basic library science courses, specialized courses in school library media and services, and efforts of International Federation of Library…

Nine articles address the topic of professionalism among school librarians. Highlights include personal initiative and suggestions for growing professionally, a professional involvement profile, career and job options, best-ever workshops, professional growth through travel, from librarian to computer coordinator, illustrated booktalks, the school…

This section includes three articles that review library news from the past year. Highlights include public library budgets, examined by geographic regions; government programs; flood damage; library school closings; school library media programs; publishing industry concerns, including mergers, broadening markets, and on-demand printing; and…

This paper, compiled for a class at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, compares the job characteristics of traditional university library staff, who are most comfortable handling print material, with the job characteristics of university learning resource center staff, who handle all forms of instructional media including such nonprint…