This bibliography contains a selected reference list of publications of interest to architects, library planners, and librarians contemplating the planning, programing, and/or design of library facilities. Each reference is followed by a listing of ERIC descriptors that describe its contents. The items are listed in six sections: (1) library…

The proliferation of non-book materials currently being produced for use at the junior college and college level offers the learning resources center the unique opportunity to serve the special needs of each student and to supply the student with materials and facilities for optimum learning. The library can become comprehensible to the user if…

This guide lists high quality instructional materials on all topics included in the elementary school curriculum for pre-school through sixth grade. It aims to describe a collection meeting as nearly as possible the standards recommended by the Standards for School Media Programs published by the American Library Association. A continuous analysis…

This handbook contains nine sections dealing with the administration of learning resource centers in urban community colleges. Learning resource center objectives, both general and specific, are described, and organization and administration are discussed. The remaining seven sections all deal with various personnel questions: personnel…

A Delphi survey was conducted with the professional media staff in: (1) state educational agencies, (2) territories, (3) the District of Columbia, and (4) the U.S. Office of Education. Survey questions were designed to set organization goals, to plan program activities, and to organize the trends facing the supervisors. Only 19 questionnaires were…

In this document the performance of Indiana school libraries is contrasted to their situation ten years earlier and compared with the national and state standards. The performance statistics were collected from the 1971-72 Individual School Reports of Instructional Media Programs and generally give data for the percent of schools meeting a…

This document has been issued as a supplement to "School Library Resource Centers: Recommended Standards for Policy and Provision" because it was felt that the original document did not sufficiently deal with non-book materials. Detailed consideration is given to the functioning, financing, organization and administration of a school…

The "Instructional Materials Center" project was designed to set up a process by which children with learning disabilities would be aided in both affective and cognitive domains. The project has been successful despite the fact that some of the exploratory objectives in the process domain have not been met. It has greatly aided the…

A special studies institute on resources for effective teaching was designed to train newly appointed or potential Curriculum Resource Consultants (CRC) who work in conjunction with special education instructional materials centers in Michigan. Objectives of the workshop sequences included the development of teacher-training competencies in the…

The program development guide for teachers of trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children and adolescents, 5- to 21-years-old, includes Indiana State guidelines, information on the TMR population, suggestions for instructional programs, evaluation tools, and informational sources. Specified by guidelines are TMR children's right to instruction,…

A research project compiled information on the use of free and inexpensive materials in Kansas secondary schools. Forty-six media specialists responded to a questionnaire and checklist and provided data on four topics: 1) selection and acquisition of materials; 2) storage and retrieval systems used in handling materials; 3) subjects and formats of…

Presented is DUB (description, use, and benefits of an idea), a format for special education teachers to use in writing descriptions of self-developed materials and methods; and included are six examples of the format. The DUB format prescribes the inclusion in brief essay form of the following information: descriptive material (structural…

The standards represent the combined five-year effort of the Washington State Association (WSASL) and the Washington Department of Audiovisual Instruction (WDAVI). The national school library and educational media standards were considered in preparation of these quantitative standards which are presented in phases for minimum, good and excellent…

Although schools are spending huge sums of money (nearly one billion dollars in 1970-71) on instructional technology, their media programs are disorganized and inefficient as documented in the report of the Commission on Instructional Technology. In the speaker's opinion, effective media programs depend on several factors: choice of appropriate…

A study was devised to investigate how media centers function within individualized instructional programs at selected elementary schools in Connecticut and to evaluate those media centers in relation to their school programs according to criteria developed by leaders in the field. Results of questionnaires showed 1) a relationship exists between…