When a school library is redesignated as a school media center, the role of the former school librarian changes along with the function of the unit itself. The responsibility for communicating about these new functions and responsibilities lies primarily with the school media specialist. (Author/MJB)

At SUNY, the Educational Recording Library is responsible for the acquisition, duplication, and distribution of education recordings (non-book media) for university-wide use and for providing campuses with those services necessary to make effective use of the recordings. (JMD)

Government action, reasons behind abuse, resource development centers, classrooms for families, and suggestions for how to help with child abuse are discussed. (MP)

Explained are the ways in which components of the Learning Resource Centers program are facilitating the use of new educational technology in education programs for handicapped persons. (GW)

Tufts New England Medical Center and local Boston community groups have cooperated to create a kindergarten through fifth grade facility that is also a resource center for the medical center community and the multiethnic residential neighborhood. (Author/MLF)

Describes Glendale Community College's Instructional Materials Center, an integrated center housing both print and nonprint media and serving the college community more than 75.5 hours per week. Highlights interaction between librarians and instructional faculty, the librarians' role, ??and the library's bibliographic instruction program. (DMM)

Addresses four future-oriented questions: what effects will new technologies have on community college learning resource centers (LRC's), what new roles will librarians perform in the future, what will the community college LRC of tomorrow look like, and what is the most important factor involved in planning for the future. (DMM)

Describes a program at an independent college preparatory school which introduces primary grade students to research techniques and tools through a carefully planned sequence of encounters with library research and reference aids. (CLB)

Identifies questions that should be asked, problems that may arise, and sources of information for library media specialists choosing hard disk computer systems. (CLB)

This description of trends in school library media facilities identifies function, aesthetic values, and behavioral expectations as key components of school library design. The use of library space by students and staff and the impact of electronic technology are also discussed. (5 references) (MES)

Describes booktalk program at Miller Avenue School (Shoreham, New York) designed to encourage children to view reading as a pleasurable experience. Reading guidance and assistance, background information, choice of books for booktalk collection, selections by students and leaders, conducting the program, stages of transition, and key factors for…

Describes the Hinz model for integrating the library, educational media, and instructional development functions of the learning resources program, highlighting the three stages of program development. Explains how Pensacola Junior College's instructional program could be reorganized and become more fully integrated by using the model. (CBC)

Describes the microcomputing services offered by the Learning Resources Center at Tulsa Junior College to students, faculty, and library staff, discussing such issues as software development, student use of software in the library, and the need for microcomputer literacy among library staff. (DMM)

Describes the database developed by Tulsa Junior College's Learning Resources Center to control its microcomputer software holdings. Describes the college's automated environment; bibliographic and physical difficulties associated with microcomputer software; the in-process database; and software descriptors associated with catalog records. (DMM)

A history of school libraries in England and Wales shows progress to be inconsistent, with centers of excellence the exception rather than the rule. Only when high-quality school libraries are clearly linked to effective learning will the teaching profession become firmly committed to the resource center's role in the school. (EM)