The question: What is an IMC (instructional materials center)?" is explored and guidelines for evaluating the operation of an IMC are given. (NH)

Describes the application of PPBS to an entire school district and its relevance to the library/media center. (PF)

The definition of standards, background developments, the current scene, the impact of national standards, and issues or challenges affecting standards are discussed. (24 references) (Author)

Some of the latest approaches to furniture and facilities design for multi-media use in libraries, including a rationale for selection are explored. (Author/NH)

For the decade of the 1970s, it seems that school library service to the disadvantaged will realize educational objectives in the same measure as education survives the current transformation or rebirth. (20 references) (Author/NH)

Argues that leadership and managerial skills should be developed in all librarians including children's librarians. The problems of developing managerial skills as a training function of the library organization are addressed and suggestions for an administrator planning such training are given. (EM)

The media center could and should be an impressive resource tool in providing information and surrogate experiences for use by the student in forming his tastes, attitudes and values. (Author/NH)

Following a brief history of the development of school media services, the author gives ten ways by which a good media service program serves the objectives of the total educational program of the school. (NH)

Presents a historical overview of standards for school libraries and media centers, particularly as they apply to schools for the deaf. The development of national standards is described; the influence of standards on the profession is discussed; and the deaf school population and school programs for deaf children are described. (30 references)…

This discussion of the problem of funding college and university media centers outlines the general categories of available support, assesses current prospects of attracting funds for instructional technology in higher education, and explores the implications that a media center poses for a library's internal budget policy. Twenty-nine references…

Educational technology has provided an outside impetus for librarianship to take an inside look at itself. It is up to those in the library profession to determine whether technology will make us more mechanized and task oriented or will truly assist us to facilitate, personalize, and humanize the library function. (Author/NH)

Nothing on the educational horizon has such great potential to help our educational system as the application of the already known communications technology techniques of two-way information handling and dissemination. (Author/NH)

The development pattern for the first building of the new Evergreen State College in Washington State is outlined. About one-fourth of the assignable space in this first multifunctional building is reserved for the multi-media library. First priority is given to the production, distribution and utilization of media (nonprint) materials. (NH)

This discussion of the impact of technological developments on information services highlights the influence of growth and development of video and electronic media on library, use of new media in comprehensive learning assistance centers, problems related to adoption of new technologies, and library role in adult education. (19 references) (EJS)