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Download full textLance, Keith Curry; Cox, Marti A. – 1996
This compilation of statistics on Colorado's school media centers (LMCs) consists of three major components: (1) a 220-page tabulation of data arranged by school level and student enrollment level; (2) tables reporting statewide totals for school library statistics; and (3) tables with benchmark ratios for school library media center resources and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Benchmarking, Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education
Van Orden, Phyllis – School Library Journal, 1993
Identifies current challenges to children's library services including inequality in access to information; integration of information skills in the classroom; rising costs, low budgets, and increasing demands; the state of book collections; and the need for research at state and national levels. Local examples of successful solutions are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Budgets, Childrens Libraries, Curriculum
DuPree, Vi – 1993
This study sought to determine the extent of restrictive access to books in Georgia school library media centers and to discover by whose authority and for what reason these books might be placed on restrictive shelves. Questionnaires were completed and received from a stratified random sampling of 119 media specialists in high schools, middle or…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Books, Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education
Hampton, Karen – 1993
The purpose of this study was: (1) to examine the opinions of a selected group of public and private high school students regarding their perceptions of the level of accessibility to their school libraries (accessibility defined as times when students think they were allowed to be in the library); (2) to determine whether or not students feel the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, High Schools, Learning Resources Centers
Peer reviewedFarmer, Lesley S. J. – Catholic Library World, 1994
Describes the HyperCard Library Instruction Project (CLIP) and the research upon which it is based. Findings of research of HyperCard instruction with secondary students and a description of ways to use HyperCard instruction are presented. A sidebar article describes the California-based CLIP program and the HyperCard modules the organization is…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Software Development
Peer reviewedStokker, Judy – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 1998
Reviews the first year of operation of the Researchers' Center of the Queensland University of Technology Library; the Center provides research-level students and academic staff with access to electronic products, on-hand expert advice, and state-of-the-art study space. Discusses the impetus for the Center, issues relating to its establishment,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Bishop, Ann P. – 1991
Federal legislation authorizing the creation of the National Research and Education Network (NREN)--i.e., the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P.L. 102-194)--was signed into law by the President in December 1991. This network is envisioned as an expansion and enhancement of the existing U.S. Internet, the collection of interconnected…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
