Highlights the need for two-year college libraries to expand services to educationally disadvantaged persons. Explores the nature of this target group and some of the barriers to higher education they face. Considers the implications their needs have for learning resource centers and discusses some potentially effective responses to those needs.…

Two authors of children's books discuss the elements of a successful school visit, including how to select and contact an author; fees; choosing dates; having books available; planning collaboratively with authors, principals, teachers, and parents; organizing the schedule; the author as critic; publicity; travel plans; autographs; and follow-up.…

Discusses the responsibility of the school library media specialist with respect to microcomputer software acquisition and usage. Copyright and the library media center, copyright infringement, remedies, and protection, strategies that can be used in obtaining and disseminating quality software, and policy development are noted. Thirteen…

Indicates that the applications of microcomputers at libraries and learning resource centers at two-year colleges range from direct patron services to administrative and library support functions. Describes user services, user control systems, administrative applications, and information exchanges in the context of the system at State University…

Director of Iowa State University's Media Resources Center argues that fiscal progress is the most reliable measure of functional progress or growth. How money is controlled to allow for allocation of funds and manipulation of service priorities is described as well as how service functions are managed. (MBR)

Described are factors to be considered in planning, constructing, and running a learning center. Three different types of learning centers based upon the overall objective of the centers, are described. (SL)

A statistical report on junior college library building from July 1, 1973 to June 30, 1976. (PF)

A discussion of the value of shelving print and nonprint media together in an integrated resource collection includes the results of a survey of media centers across the United States. (JY)

An outline is offered as an aid to planning a new microform system or expanding one that already exists. It is intended to help decide which micrographic system would be most suitable for a learning resources center. (JY)

Using the centers approach to resource-based learning, this book incorporates important information skill-building into a variety of exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum. It provides an ongoing library center program through a series of mini-lessons that cover topics ranging from author exploration and natural resources to rockets…

Article presented a description of a rapidly growing kind of academic "service center", and suggestions to faculty for its use. (Editor/RK)

A decrease in the amount spent for furniture and furnishings shows no change in the patterns of spending. State-by-State statistical data shows expenditures for carpeting, classrooms, media centers, offices, and auditoriums. (Author/JF)

A careful study of the conditions affecting the cataloging of nonbook media today reveals a situation of interacting and conflicting factors. (Author)

Local production, particularly the do-it-yourself vaiety, should be approached from the point of view of a purposeful development process. Such a process has been implemented in the Curriculum Laboratories of the Detroit Public Schools and is outlined in the article. (Author)

A description of an elementary level ethnic studies program in the Richmond, Virginia, Public Schools. (HB)