The publication "Learning to Use Media" is a complete revision of the "Handbook of Suggestions for School Library Activities." It includes audio-visual as well as print materials made adaptable to present-day curricular uses. The guide is designed for use with a basic collection of print and audio-visual materials, well organized and cataloged,…

This book has been written for all types of libraries and media centres which wish to have an omnimedia catalog, i.e., one in which the entries for all materials, both book and nonbook, are interfiled. In order to integrate all entries successfully the same cataloging principles should apply to all media. A practical solution is to enter and…

Since the 17th century, Chinese lexicography has been dominated by a character classification system divided into 214 radical groups. The proposed initial three-stroke system would eliminate the need to select (or guess) the proper radical and count strokes. The aim of the system is to facilitate the use of dictionaries and provide the student…

Drawn from the full report entitled "The 'Electric Company' In-School Utilization Study: The 1971-72 School and Teacher Surveys," this summary of both surveys provides information on how schools and teachers first heard of "The Electric Company," why they decided to either adopt the series, and how the adopters adjusted…

Language materials of the Language Improvement to Facilitate Education (LIFE) Project are described as carefully sequenced curriculum materials which use visuals to educate deaf children in the affective domain. The affective domain is defined as the area of human experiences related to interest, appreciation, attitudes, adjustments and values;…

An experiment was performed on the use of telelecture, amplified voice telephone, in a class of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The telelecture was successful in that it exposed the students to another academic library administrator, and it appeared to be a successful learning…

Seven papers concerning use of media in educating handicapped children are presented. Given the learning problems of handicapped children, Philip H. Mann urges teachers to explore a wide variety of media as an aid to education. The proliferation of media and materials need not provide an insurmountable problem to the teacher, according to…

The Early Childhood Library Specialist (ECLS) concept was first conceived as the Early Childhood Media Specialist, and was written into a proposal that included a curriculum for the training of such media specialists. Cognizant of the interrelationship of the library and media fields, the proposal was adapted to include aspects of children's and…

In this National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) publication, the advantages of having living things in the classroom are discussed. Also given is a brief description of the facilities and environments required for various common mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and plants. (CP)

Songs designed for use with the University of Hawaii curriculum, "Music for Preschool," are presented alphabetically with the recommended level for introduction of each song included after its title. Instructions for using the songs in the preschool program are found in the curriculum manual. There are specific suggestions for using the songs in…

Within the framework of individualized instruction, a study explored: 1) the effects on performance when students either know or do not know how much time it has taken others to complete the same task, and 2) the importance of the concept of "peer tutor." Students enrolled in two sections of a class in utilization of educational media participated…

The need for librarianship of instructional gaming increases as the production of literature and games grows, and as gaming becomes progressively legitimatized as an instructional strategy. This paper presents guidelines for bibliographic control and reference services, collection development, cataloging and classification, circulation and…

An annotated guide to reference materials for social studies multimedia programs is provided. (DE)

Included in the compendium are approximately 175 references to books, journal articles, instructional materials, filmstrips, or films concerned with encouraging affective development in gifted and other children. (DB)

Reports on the 1975 annual meeting of the Education Group of the Institute of Physics which was associated with the Higher Education Learning Project (Physics) (HELP). Discussed topics are listed. (CP)