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Direct linkAllen, Melissa – Library Media Connection, 2010
Today school library media specialists operate in an environment of daily challenges and controversies. "No Child Left Behind" established mandates that all educators are scrambling to meet. No matter how people feel about the way the legislation is being carried out, it is difficult to argue against its purpose--that all educators must…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, School Libraries, Media Specialists, Academic Achievement
American Association of School Librarians--Alaska, Juneau. – 1984
Developed to encourage and promote the establishment and maintenance of standards of excellence in all school library media centers, standards presented here are designed to be the minimum acceptable for Alaska schools. Each school is urged to use the standards as a base to develop a quality library media program which reflects the unique…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Educational Equipment, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Download full textLance, Keith Curry; Hamilton-Pennell, Christine; Rodney, Marcia J. – 2000
This study is an assessment of the impact of Alaska school librarians on academic achievement in the state's public schools. It examines the direct relationship between such staffing and student performance and identifies selected activities of library media staff that affect test scores. Other conditions of library media center operation were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Skills, Information Technology
Hamilton-Pennell, Christine; Lance, Keith Curry; Rodney, Marcia J.; Hainer, Eugene – School Library Journal, 2000
Reports the results of three statewide studies in Alaska, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, which show that a school library media program with a full-time library media specialist, support staff, and a strong computer network leads to higher student achievement as evidenced on standardized achievement tests. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTabbert, Barbara – Emergency Librarian, 1988
Describes events in Fairbanks (Alaska) resulting from an attempt by some community members to remove a book about homosexuality from the high school library. The discussion covers community reactions, media coverage, and a school board campaign that focused on this issue. Tabbert's speech the night of the vote is presented in the second article.…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Censorship, Community Attitudes, High Schools
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. Div. of State Libraries. – 1991
This annual bibliography of Alaska- and Arctic-related publications received by the Alaska Division of State Libraries is divided into three categories. There are 26 titles in the "Juvenile Fiction" section, 122 in the "Adult Non-Fiction" section, and 19 in the "Adult Fiction" section. Government publications are…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies
Streiff, Paul R.; Streiff, Virginia – 1976
Evaluation objectives were to assess the quality of the Bethel Alaska Regional Library/Media Center as an exemplary operation (the Center was established by the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Bethel Agency in 1971 to serve federally operated schools in Southwest Alaska) and to measure the impact of the Center's services on its Eskimo elementary student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alaska Natives, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis
