This report explains the key role that school librarians and libraries should play in state- and district-wide efforts to transition to digital learning, or the effective use of technology to improve teaching and learning. The report calls for district and school leaders, policymakers, and boards of education to support, encourage, and fund the…

Discussion of censorship against books in public and school libraries focuses on intellectual freedom; First Amendment rights; and curriculum development to include lessons on the First Amendment. Offers suggestions for activities focusing on censorship and banned books. (LRW)

Focuses on traditional areas of the study of public, school, and academic libraries that have generally declined in schools of library science. Considers the impact of information technology on academic programs of information studies and describes a study of curriculum building at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). (Author/LRW)

Discussion of collaboration between classroom teachers and school library media specialists focuses on programs at an elementary school in the Katy Independent School District (Texas). Topics include knowing the faculty; knowing the curriculum; providing needed materials and services; cooperation with public librarians; and recognition of shared…

Includes 17 articles that address the role of Canadian teacher-librarians in the future. Highlights include curriculum development; instructional leadership; international perspectives; educating teacher-librarians; administrative support; teaching information literacy; the UNESCO school library manifesto; Ontario's school library information…

Describes a library school's curriculum review process for children's services which involved networking between library and information science faculty and other departments, current students and graduates representing practitioners from various school levels, and public children's and young adult librarians. Eight course descriptions are…

Provides an overview of school libraries in Israel. Highlights include a historical background of school library development, including teaching library skills, developing curriculum, and reading guidance; problem areas, including funding shortages, the need for improved physical facilities, public libraries, and classroom library collections; and…

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)

The Rural Library Training Project has been undertaken to design and implement a basic training curriculum for the staff of rural school and public libraries in Alberta, Canada. The first phase, Planning and Analysis, began on December 1, 1984, and this official report covers activities to April 1, 1985. Phase One addressed the nature of the…

The purpose of the Rural Library Training Project was to design, implement, and evaluate a basic training curriculum for the staff of rural libraries in Alberta, Canada. This Phase Four Summative Report describes project activities carried out from April 1, 1986 through June 30, 1987. These activities included the completion of the field test, the…

The Rural Library Training Project was undertaken to design and implement a basic training curriculum for the staff of rural libraries in Alberta, Canada. Phase One of the project, which began in December 1984, is described in the First Phase Report published in April 1985. This first interim report describes the Phase Two/Three activities from…

Describes a pilot project in Alberta designed to provide training for the staff of small rural school and public libraries through various distance delivery methods. Reported results include demographics of the rural librarian population; evaluation of courses offered; and comparison of delivery modes by student satisfaction, effectiveness, and…

Discusses educational reform and examines the role of library media programs based on fictional scenarios, including centralization with public libraries; educational consultants; teacher-librarians and curriculum development; information literacy programs, including assessment techniques; and implications for library collections, automation,…

The purpose of the Rural Library Training Project is to design, implement, and evaluate a basic training curriculum for the staff of rural school and public libraries in Alberta. This Phase Two/Three Second Interim Report describes project activities from October 1, 1985 through March 31, 1986. These activities consist of the fall field test of…

Advocates the need for reading instruction to be a required class for all middle grade students in Indiana. Topics include decline of library usage, school organizational change, schedule changes and the shift to "language arts," time on task, questions for interviewing prospective reading teachers, a reading curriculum, useful…