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Snyder, Timothy – 2000
The purpose of this book is to help professional librarians gain administrator support for the library media center. The book is divided into three sections. Part 1, "Setting the Stage," explores the challenge and aspects of accountability that can be lost in the pressures of daily accomplishment. It details the personality characteristics found…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Robinson, David E. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1996
Discusses a five-point approach for library media specialists about school-based management. The approach includes establishing priorities for the school library media program, developing strong community support and a public relations program, creating a support staff within the school, refining human relations, and using creative scheduling and…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Human Relations, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Administration
Wiegand, Wayne A. – 1996
This book is a biography of Melvil Dewey, the man behind the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Tracing Dewey's life and early influences that shaped it, the book explores Dewey's employment experiences, enterprises, and innovations and present a range of views on them; he was seen as an organizational genius but also as arrogant, manipulative,…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Biographies, Change Agents, Dewey Decimal Classification
Download full textHartzell, Gary – 2002
Principals should support school libraries because it is in both their students' and their own best interest to do so. Quality library media programs can enhance student achievement, and informed, committed librarians can help principals enhance their own administrative practice. This ERIC Digest discusses improving student achievement, including…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Ohlrich, Karen Browne – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1996
Discusses four areas in school library media programs that media specialists are expected to develop. Topics include promoting information literacy among students; knowing how to evaluate and use various information technologies; consulting with teachers to strengthen student learning and outcomes; and serving on school-based management…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Literacy
Peer reviewedHartzell, Gary – Knowledge Quest, 2002
Discusses why school administrators have not heard about the difference libraries make in student achievement (e.g., stereotypes of libraries and librarians, lack of attention to library programs in teacher/administrator training, the absorbability and invisibility of library work) and how to make changes in order to draw benefits from school…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrators, Educational Administration
