A growing concern for individualized instruction has made educators aware that all students need access to a wide range of media outside of the typical classroom or traditional library. For those desiring to develop appropriate facilities to fill this need, this bibliography stresses ideas that will enhance the planning, organization, and…

Describes a general resource center facility at Clear Creek Secondary School where items may be either borrowed, purchased, or rented. Items include cameras, film, and videotapes and casettes; telescopes and microscopes; model kits; carpentry tools and lumber; art supplies; math games; yarn, weaving looms, and sewing machines; typewriters; seeds;…

An analysis of the role that learning centers play in education in the United States with focus on the learning centers in the East Detroit Public Schools. (HB)

Programs in the following communities are described as examples of relating instructional and other services to both print and audiovisual media in a unified center: Madison, Wisconsin; Omaha, Nebraska; Hauppauge, New York; San Ramon Valley, California; Mount Clemens, Michigan; Hammond, Indiana. (JB)

In 1997, Buckman Laboratories (based in Memphis, Tennessee) embarked on a plan to create a Learning Center for its distributed, global workforce using the corporate intranet. The Learning Center is now fully operational and tightly integrated with the knowledge management and sharing activities of the company. Discussion includes rapid prototyping…

A brief account of the need for and the projected capability of the college's soon to be completed learning resources center. (LS)

A look at Virginia Tech's university-wide Learning Resource Center which includes a TV facility for use in all academic programs. (Author)

Nine recent books on school and college of education library resource centers are reviewed in the context of a developing British literature to compare with North American developments in the field. (Author)

A case history is presented of the development and initial operation of the special library at the Criminal Justice Training and Education Center, Toledo, Ohio, during an internship for the Community Information Specialist Program at The University of Toledo. Description is given of efforts in organizing an existing collection of books, documents,…

The document presents the Southwest Regional Resource Center's (SRRC) final technical report on its major activities, products, and services for handicapped children from June 1, 1974, to September 30, 1977. The element summaries, which comprise the main text of the report, contain information on model development, regional task force work, direct…

The Teacher Resource Center outlined in this proposal would be a center where research could be done for teachers in all subject areas, reducing the time faculty must spend during preparation periods and after-school hours in researching information and materials for class use. Other objectives include (1) the provision of correlated materials for…

Competency based education changes the teacher's role from that of a deliverer of information to that of a manager of learning. In order for the teacher to be able to fulfill this function, it is essential that support mechanisms be established and maintained. Whatever support mechanisms are to be created should evolve from the objectives learners…

The need to change the conventional library into a learning resource center is stressed. With the learning resources concept, instructors will be more prone to look upon media not with the idea of why it should be used in teaching, but how it can be used in order to do a more effective job of teaching. The effective use of media will necessarily…