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Download full textMoy, Patricia J. – 1990
Federal legislation ensures that children with physical disabilities should not be denied access to the school library. These children have the same information needs as their peers, and they want equal access to information in the school library media center. To create an accessible and functional school library, many requirements and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Check Lists, Design Requirements, Educational Environment
Didier, Elaine K. – 1984
This report summarizes an investigation of the relationship between public elementary school students' achievement in reading and study skills and several aspects of the library media program. Data were collected from a statewide survey of library media programs and personnel, district summaries of reading achievement scores for fourth and seventh…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Educational Background, Elementary Education
Williams, Jeff; Cahalan, Margaret – 1986
This report provides excerpts of statistical information derived from a study conducted by surveying representative samples of 4,500 public schools and 1,700 private schools in the United States. Survey methodology is described; the limitations and appropriate use of the data are considered; and sampling errors are discussed. The report includes…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Equipment, Library Expenditures
Ryan, Constance V. – 1984
A questionnaire was administered to 400 randomly selected four-year academic institutions to gather information about integration of print and nonprint materials, provision of media facilities, and degree of cooperation between audiovisual centers and libraries. Responses received from 266 institutions (67%) were subjected to the posteriori…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Centers, Audiovisual Coordinators, College Libraries
Brandes, Barbara – 1987
The California State Department of Education conducted a special study of the condition of library media centers in the state's schools during the 1985-86 school year. Coordinated with a concurrent nationwide study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, this study surveyed a random sample of 1,560 elementary, intermediate, and secondary…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Learning Resources Centers, Library Collection Development
Coleman, J. Gordon, Jr. – 1980
Initiated as a graduate school project in educational media administration and later distributed to administrative personnel in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County public school districts, this document presents a 5-year plan for merging the district-level library media centers and related services of these two neighboring Virginia school…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Budgets, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. of Library Services. – 1982
This report summarizes data from a May 1981 survey of Wisconsin's 433 school districts conducted by the Bureau of Instructional Media Programs of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. A single narrative and 14 composite tables present information from three separate data analyses, which included computation of statewide averages for the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Educational Media
Meyers, Judith K. – 1989
"Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs," which was published jointly by the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) in 1988, is the most recent in a series of efforts to articulate and encode professional program and practice standards that have…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperative Planning, Diffusion (Communication), Elementary Secondary Education
Buckingham, Betty Jo, Ed. – 1988
Prepared primarily by the Iowa State Department of Education, this annotated bibliography of materials by Iowans or about Iowans is a revised third edition of the original 1969 publication. It both combines and expands the scope of the two major sections of previous editions, i.e., Iowan history and literature, and out-of-print materials are…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Authors, Books, Directories
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1987
This compilation of legal documents and guidelines is intended for use when designing new policies or revising existing policies for the evaluation and selection of print and nonprint instructional materials for elementary and secondary schools and their media centers. These materials focus on the following: (1) textbooks, materials of…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Status
Iowa State Dept. of Public Instruction, Des Moines. – 1982
Intended as an aid for Iowa school library media specialists, this pamphlet identifies resources and provides guidelines for the development of multicultural, nonsexist (MC-NS) school library media programs. Definitions of terms used in the pamphlet are given. The rationale and philosophy underlying elementary and secondary curricula design are…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Check Lists, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development
Angus, Beatrice E. – 1980
This study evaluates the programs which have been undertaken by five school systems (the Albany-Schoharie-Schenectady Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), the Otsego County BOCES, the Syracuse City School District, the Broome-Tioga BOCES, and the Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Oswego County BOCES) to provide a basis for cooperation and…
Descriptors: Coordination, Elementary Secondary Education, Interlibrary Loans, Learning Resources Centers
Jefferson County Board of Education, Louisville, KY. – 1983
The Shawnee High School/Detrick Vocational Center and Fairdale High School/Fairdale Vocational Center Academic/Vocational Projects are pilot programs designed to integrate academic and vocational studies in two Kentucky schools. In this project, students take their basic subjects at their high school and explore the vocational programs at the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
Educational Priorities Panel, New York, NY. – 1985
The Educational Priorities Panel (EPP) conducted a mail survey of New York City school library staff, a telephone survey of community school districts, and an analysis of budget and payroll data for library services. Additionally, two member agencies, the Citizen's Committee for Children and the Women's City Club, undertook a cooperative study on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Expenditures, Library Instruction
Benson, J. W. B.; Baker, P. J. – 1979
This resource book is designed to provide administrators, teachers and other educational personnel with a compendium of information derived from research and current educational practices which will facilitate the implementation of effective organizational and instructional strategies. A brief description of the common characteristics of children…
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
