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Library/Media Centers in U.S. Public Schools: Growth, Staffing, and Resources. Executive Summary
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Tuck, Kathy D.; Holmes, Dwight R. – National Education Association, 2016
This study analyzes data collected between 2000 and 2013 from the annual National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (CCD) Local Education Agency (School District) Universe Survey; the NCES Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS); and the U.S. Census Bureau Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Survey (SAIPE). The findings…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Media Specialists, Learning Resources Centers, School Libraries
Library/Media Centers in U.S. Public Schools: Growth, Staffing, and Resources. Full Report
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Tuck, Kathy D.; Holmes, Dwight R. – National Education Association, 2016
At the request of New Business Item: 89 (NBI: 89) adopted at the 2015 NEA Representative Assembly, this study examines the extent to which students have access to public school library/media centers with qualified staff and up-to-date resources. The study explores trends in library/media center openings and closings as well as staffing patterns…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Media Specialists, Learning Resources Centers, School Libraries
Advances in Library Administration and Organization Volume 18.
Garten, Edward D., Ed.; Williams, Delmus E., Ed. – 2001
Long regarded as the premier monographic series in its area of coverage, "Advances in Library Administration and Organization" offers research perspectives that are both timely and lively. This 18th volume continues the series' long practice of bringing to its professional and academic readership an eclectic mix of scholarship and longish essays.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Information Services, Learning Resources Centers
Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional Guide for School Library Media Specialists. School Librarianship Series.
Craver, Kathleen W. – 2002
This book provides school library media specialists (SLMSs) with practical guidelines and suggested Internet sites for designing cyber libraries that are reflective of their school's research, curriculum, and recreational reading needs. An introduction provides SLMSs with a rationale for designing cyber libraries. Chapter 1, Cyber Library…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Information Technology
Knowledge Sharing in a Learning Resource Centre by Way of a Metro Map Metaphor.
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Bang, Tove – 2001
This paper presents a Knowledge Sharing project at the Aarhus School of Business (Denmark). As a result of a close cooperation between the Faculty of Modern Languages and the Library of the Aarhus School of Business, a Learning Resource Centre (LRC) is being established. The LRC serves as an exploratorium for the development and testing of new…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Business Administration Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Environment
Collection Development.
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School Libraries in Canada, 2002
Includes 21 articles that discuss collection development in Canadian school libraries. Topics include digital collections in school library media centers; print and electronic library resources; library collections; collaborative projects; print-disabled students; informing administrators of the importance of collection development; censorship;…
Descriptors: Administrators, Censorship, Computer Networks, Disabilities