Presents an evaluation form that library media specialists, teachers, and students can use to rate their school library media center. (WD)

The technological functions of the learning center at Gallaudet College are described, including making videotapes available, providing microform materials, and developing computer operations. (CL)

Discusses audiovisual services in American educational organizations and institutions, the staffing of these services, organizational structure, facilities and services, and resources available. (RAO)

Describes the Xerox International Center for Training and Management Development: its philosophy; use of space, texture, and color; flexibility of classroom interior arrangement; classroom A/V facilities; resource center; television studio and facilities; and furniture, student luggage, walkways, and lighting. (JEG)

A checklist of furnishings and equipment from guidelines recently published by the Kentucky Department of Education for its Merit Media Program. (Author)

A management philosophy goal oriented to the facilitation of learning in a media program is presented. (Author/KP)

This communications center represents a new concept in sharing and spreading information throughout the campus system. The first link of an audiovisual intercampus communication system in California is designed as a prototype that provides spatial flexibility to accommodate yet-to-be developed equipment. (Author/MLF)

Presents a historical background of the publication of "Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs." Highlights include the histories of the American Library Association (ALA), the National Education Association (NEA), and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT); and a review of…

Describes the Office of Minority Health Resource Center, designed to disseminate minority health-related information and increase public awareness of the gravity and magnitude of the health disparity that persists between minority and nonminority populations. Technical support, assistance, and information referral services are provided to…

Four self-access centers (SAC) are described, as well as their rationale, human resources, and end users. A framework for establishing a SAC is proposed; an informed decision about the type of self-access system, based on the rationale of the institution and the human resources available, will ensure a system suited to end users. (Contains 13…

Recruiting professionals for schools' media resources centres needs to take into account the new dimensions of the information society. This article describes the radical reform of the very high-stakes and competitive national selection of those professionals in France. The new exam is now driven by a problem-solving approach and based on an…

Locating sources and accessing the information they contain is part of the Big6 approach to information problem solving. In this stage of knowing where to look and how to find the required source, library media specialists train students in the use of the card catalog in the library media center.

Hurricane Ivan struck the Gulf Coast of Florida on September 16, 2004, destroying waterfront homes, and damaging properties for miles. Pensacola Junior College (PJC), a two-year college with three campuses and a student population of approximately 26,000, was hit hard. In the Pensacola Campus Learning Resources Center (LRC), water and mold ruined…

This report contains the citations for the 1997 Hesburgh Awards for successful, innovative faculty development programs to enhance undergraduate teaching. The University of Missouri-Columbia, General Education Program, was the program judged to have best met the three award criteria: significance of the program to higher education, appropriate…