This document represents the higher education and library community's guiding public policy agenda on information technology (IT) for the current year. The Higher Education Information Technology (HEIT) Alliance is a coalition of 11 national higher education and library associations, whose members represent a broad array of stakeholders on college…

This listing contains numerical/statistical data on support personnel in Pennsylvania for 2003-04 as reported by school districts, intermediate units, area vocational-technical schools, charter schools, and consortium-operated alternative high schools that employ staff (e.g., Washington County Alternative School). Support personnel are grouped…

In every recent study of education beyond the high school the 2-year college has been considered as a possible solution to the problem of serving adequately the great flood of students that will soon be receiving their high school diploma. The importance of these institutions in meeting the desirable goals of decentralization and diversification…

Suggests resources useful in selecting, recommending, and ordering books that are regularly used and relied upon by English teachers. (RB)

Suggests six ways to prepare for and meet attempts at censorship of reading materials in classrooms and school libraries. (TO)

Study conducted under the auspices of the Executive Council of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. (DD)

The author describes a learning resources system independently evolved at his company. The system involves a switch from the conventional library to planned use of audio-visual equipment which can be organized to suit the needs of individual learners. (JB)

Several Washington, D. C. experimental schools broadened the classrooms to encompass the outside world. (AJ)

Condensed from "New York State Education, LVI (May 1969), 22-23, 34-35.

The slow process for accrediting training programs for school media specialists and the speed of technological change have created serious problems. Accreditation agencies, their difficulties, and attempts by the American Association of School Librarians and other groups to establish professional standards for school media specialists are…

Each school media specialist creates his or her own role. Media specialists are instructional leaders, curriculum developers, consultants, and administrators. The ability to cope with technological change while creating a future which will be personally satisfying and professionally rewarding is the key to defining the role. (PP)

Increasing censorship activities and their sources are discussed. Strategies to respond to book banning include: (1) establishment in schools of a written selection policy; (2) development of a role for educational organizations in counteracting unnecessary censorship; (3) provision for parents to examine textbooks before purchase; and (4)…