A concensus of faculty, staff, and consultants regarding the physical requirements necessary for full implementation of the educational program and services to be offered. Guidelines for the architects are developed as follows--(1) curricular implications for facilities, (2) the general nature of activities o f instructional and non-instructional…

This program for the School Administrators and Library Media Personnel Conference held in February 1977 contains a list of the Maryland and State Board of Education members, the conference agenda, and an introduction, as well as two speeches delineating the roles of the principal and the library media specialist in the instructional program.…

The 15 museums featured demonstrate the convergence of two ideas--the development of new kinds of museum experience, especially for the young, and the ongoing search for significant out-of-school educational opportunities. These museums provide students with educational experiences typically not possible within the schoolhouse. The purpose of…

A handicapped person's choice of accessible arts activities is very limited. This report focuses on the people and places now developing facility, planning, and program solutions that enable the handicapped to participate in the arts to their fullest potential. The 131 stories about outstanding facilities and programs, current legislation, and…

In journal format, the author's reactions to a sabbatical year tour of educational television installations around the world and in the United States are recorded. Visits to Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore are described. In part 2, similar visits to school systems in California, Arizona, Illinois,…

With today's demands for accountability, some new methods should be evolved for evaluating the services given by the school library media center. Since circulation counts, head counts, and similar statistics have provided only an approximation of the real services provided, an opinionnaire was devised to survey the faculty about library use,…

This bibliography is designed to help teachers find resources and suitable K-12 classroom materials that introduce and incorporate global perspectives into curricula. This collection emphasizes the interrelatedness of world problems and issues, as well as of areas of the world. The bibliography contains the following three sections: resources for…

The library program as a support to reading instruction in the primary grades is the focus of this handbook. The first section, "Philosophy and Program Implementation," stresses the key idea of integration of library and reading programs and presents specific suggestions for implementation. The second section, "Administration of the Program,"…

Described in the supplemental manual are representative materials developed in New Jersey for use by educational planners when setting up resource room programs to mainstream handicapped children. Suggested materials are grouped within eight color-coded sections that cover the following topics: public relations and communications; staff and…

The goals of the project were to strengthen the curriculum management capabilities of the Oklahoma Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center (CIMC); to expand its efforts toward curriculum management in career education through coordination of efforts in development, dissemination, and diffusion; and to maximize resources for curriculum…

One of a series of manuals developed by the Home and Community-Based Career Education Project, the publication describes the establishment of the project's resource center or specialized library to collect occupational information materials and make them accessible to staff members, clients, and the public. Such a resource center involves…

To increase access to the media collection at the Madison Area Technical College (Wisconsin) a computer-produced key work index was created using an International Business Machine (IBM) 360 model 40 computer and a duplicating facility with offset capability. A standard 80 column IBM card was used reserving columns 1-9 for the media item number,…

In an effort to evaluate how well the Learning Resources Center at Virginia Western Community College serves its faculty, a survey was taken to obtain professional information about the faculty members responding, frequencies and ratings of services used, and suggestions for improvement. The 121 faculty respondents (69%) indicated which of the 22…

Designed for teachers and administrators in Mississippi, the resource guide provides basic information relating to the education of children with specific learning disabilities (SLD). Federal and Mississippi state laws and policies relating to SLD children are explained. A model is presented dealing with instructional aims and learning processes…

The final technical report of the Southwest Regional Resource Center (SWRRC) summarizes activities between 1969 and 1974, which focused on the improvement of education for handicapped children through the development of diagnostic and testing procedures, the preparation of experimental curricular materials, information dissemination to regular and…