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Bowie, Melvin M. – Media and Methods, 1990
Describes ways in which microcomputer technology can help school media centers with collection development. The need to map the media center collection is discussed, benefits of collection mapping are explained, the need to consider curriculum requirements is emphasized, and setting up a database and spreadsheet is discussed. (LRW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers
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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
Kulleseid, Eleanor R. – Illinois Libraries, 1989
Suggests that library media specialists can shape their role as instructional consultants by using successful survival strategies, such as those presented in "Information Power." Strategies discussed include participation in curriculum development, cooperative collection development, and the integration of the media specialist's role as…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Guidelines, Learning Resources Centers
Gage, Marilyn Kay; And Others – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1993
Two articles describe ideas for school library media centers interested in promoting space education. The first article explains how to construct an inexpensive simulation of a space shuttle and suggests associated activities. The second presents steps for identifying resources and organizing them into a resources file; relevant information…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Sources
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
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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
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Krimmelbein, Cindy; Thompson, Bonnie – 1982
This questionnaire is designed to assess teachers' needs for school library media center services. General areas covered are: (1) services provided by the library media center which might be useful; (2) curriculum development and long-term planning; and (3) media center collection and selection. (MES)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Collection Development
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Lowe, Karen – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Discusses the process of weeding, updating, and building a school library media collection that supports the state curriculum. Explains resource alignment, a process for using the shelf list as a tool to analyze and align media center resources to state curricula, and describes a five-year plan and its usefulness for additional funding. (LRW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Collection Development
Morris, Betty J. – School Library Media Annual (SLMA), 1991
Provides a list of articles chosen from 12 journals to help school library media specialists develop an awareness of helpful literature from current periodicals. Topics covered include information service; instructional consulting; management, including collection development and public relations; and teaching, including library skills…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Administration
Zweizig, Douglas; Hopkins, Dianne McAfee – 1999
This document presents the executive summary of an evaluation of Library Power, a program of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund to enhance and elevate the role of libraries in public schools. The report begins with an examination of Library Power's core components (collection development, facilities refurbishing, flexible scheduling,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Flexible Scheduling, Instructional Development
Skeele, Rosemary W.; Schall, Patricia L. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1994
Offers a definition of and a rationale for multicultural education based on changing demographics and suggests ways for school library media specialists to bring a multicultural perspective to collection development, evaluation of multicultural materials, library services, curriculum integration, and curriculum activities. (Contains 21…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Material Evaluation
Ekhaml, Leticia – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1994
Describes four peer networking projects initiated by school library media specialists in Georgia that promoted curriculum development, collection development and library services, cooperation between school and public libraries to share online resources, and cooperation between public and school libraries to share magazine articles. (LRW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Collection Development
Vandergrift, Kay E.; Hannigan, Jane Anne – School Library Journal, 1993
Discusses the incorporation of videos into library collections and school curricula and reviews suitable book-based videos adapted from traditional folk or fairy tales, modern short stories, and novels. Topics addressed include interpreting visual images, changes made from the original version, and style and setting. A list of distributors is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Fairy Tales, Learning Resources Centers
Callison, Daniel – School Library Media Annual (SLMA), 1993
Discussion of the evolving role of the school library media specialist focuses on a model of the teaching role in the development of a critical thinking curriculum. Topics addressed include literacy redefined; restructuring media programs; collection development and information access; staffing changes; and intervention and evaluation strategies.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Jacobs, Heidi Hayes – Knowledge Quest, 2000
Explains curriculum mapping, a computerized method for use in educators' decision-making in elementary and secondary education. Topics include the role of media specialists with information literacy, collection development, and curriculum support; identifying gaps in skills and assessment; aligning assessments with standards; and timeliness.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Decision Making
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