This report consists of recommendations for library facilities in either new or existing school buildings. Suggestions are made for the location and size of the library. Also included are considerations for library acoustics, heating and interior finish. It is considered to be of critical importance that adequate and separate space should be…

The first of three volumes of appendixes to the final technical report of the Great Lakes Region Special Education Instructional Materials Center (GLR SEIMC) contains materials related to the Introduction (Appendix A) and the chapter on field services (Appendix B) of the final report. Contained in Appendix A are the subcontracts of the GLR SEIMC…

A study was made to relate: (1) the concepts of a library of materials and (2) newer concepts such as instructional development activities which initiate a more scientific, systematic approach to the improvement and individualization of learning experiences. The major output of the study was to be a definitive model so that the fields of library…

This booklet has been prepared for those who would like to visit the 25 schools in New Jersey which were provided with special purpose grants under ESEA Title II to serve as demonstration multimedia centers. The schools were selected by a Title II Advisory committee on the criteria of: an effective unified media program, strong administrative…

The role of the curriculum materials center at Northern Arizona University is one of providing materials for students who are working on lesson plans and curriculum planning, and for faculty who wish to utilize instructional materials in their lectures. The center, which is housed in the university library, contains textbooks, courses of study…

Instructions for preparation of abstracts associated with processing information for the retrieval system of the Michigan State University Regional Instructional Materials Center for Handicapped Children and Youth are given in the manual. An abstract is described as a summary of a written work's content which must provide information that both…

The Philadelphia School District, in conjunction with Temple University, initiated the Resource Room-Teacher Training Cooperative Program in September 1970 to offer school-aged children with educational handicaps the security of normalization, special instructional environments, and optional field-based teacher education resources and settings.…

A survey was conducted to determine teachers' perceived needs in direct instruction and related professional activities and to determine teachers' familiarity with 14 sets of instructional materials, which were said to represent materials available through Special Education Instructional Materials Centers (SEIMC). Data indicated consistency of…

This Schools Council Working Paper contains the report of a working party established to review the "form, function and finance for all school science, mathematics and technology centres in the United Kingdom and to make suggestions for a possible national framework." A description of the types of existing centers used by science…

Contained in this publication is a preliminary listing of international population information resources. It is designed to offer data on the information resources of organizations known to have teaching, research, and/or service interests in the field of population/family planning. Geographical areas include Africa, Asia (South, Middle East,…

The value of the humanities is obvious to anyone who has looked to literature for insight, to philosophy for wisdom, to the arts for pleasure. In an effort to demonstrate how the humanities can help modern society deal with some of its most pressing and complex problems, the National Endowment for the Humanities gives grants for scholarly research…

The Wabash Valley Education Center serves a 13-county area in north-central and northwest Indiana. The Center has two goals: 1) to assist local school systems in devising and developing curricular innovations and aiding in the development of teaching procedures and teaching materials and 2) to serve as a demonstration center. Two main services are…

This study had two purposes: 1) to determine what kinds of instructional support teachers used; and 2) to identify factors which facilitate or inhibit the use of such resources. The methods used to obtain data were, first, participant observation of school district activities, and second, interviews of 19 teachers. One result of the study was a…

There is a shortage of trained personnel to man school media centers in the Southern Appalachian Region. In order to prepare a detailed plan to alleviate this shortage, there was an urgency to study the needs of the region for professional librarians and employees to assist these specialists. The purposes of this project were to determine the…

Part IV of a series dealing with instructional media systems offers evaluation guidelines that individual schools can use to examine the current status of their instructional media center, identify critical needs, and establish long and short term goals. The guidelines are in five areas: philosophy and program, personnel, facilities, equipment,…