The four types of theoretical considerations discussed can be used most often in setting long-range and intermediate goals and in determining priorities. (Author/AWP)

The ideal role of the media supervisor is to make the media specialist independent of the supervisor, so that he is able to function as a helper in facilitating the learning of children. (Author/AWP)

Descriptions and purposes of Mother Goose versions and variants as well as their effects on the child's acquisition of skills. Criteria are included for selecting Mother Goose materials for library and home collections. (KP)

The folklore collection can provide a range of meaningful experience for the elementary school child. Criteria for selection of materials are scope, cultural breadth, authenticity, style, reading level, and design. (Author)

Presents an analysis of checklist-based research designed to investigate whether particular books, periodicals, and films considered to be controversial by the investigators are owned in certain groups of libraries. Objectives of checklist studies, definitions of self-censorship, compilation of checklists, and interpretation of data are…

Examines incorporation of local production of microcomputer software as part of school library media center services, highlighting need for local production, software types (adapting and altering commercial programs, finding and trading noncopyrighted programs, assisting in computer-assisted instruction authoring, programing computer lessons from…