Outlines important issues to address when planning video production facilities in a school's media center. Discusses spatial, light, and temperature considerations; determining amount to be spent, what the studio will be used for, and selecting equipment; considering digital video and nonlinear editing systems; visiting schools that already have a…

This case study documents the initial implementation of "Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning" that was developed by the American Association of School Librarians in 1998. Discusses introduction of the new guidelines to library media specialists, administrators, and classroom teachers, and describes the collaborative…

At Baltimore's Eastern Technical High School, the resource center helps make full inclusion effective for all students. In this small and busy classroom, one cannot distinguish special-education students from "regular" students. All have special needs, whether they are gifted and talented or are identified as having severe…

Describes a lesson on wildflowers for elementary school students that includes library media skills and science curriculum objectives. Cooperation between the library media specialist and the science teacher is discussed; resources are listed for elementary, secondary, and adult levels; and sample activities are suggested. (LRW)

Describes ways to instill in elementary school students a sense of ownership of the library media center and self-confidence in its use. Topics include signage; student "licenses" for completion of training on library equipment; individual rewards; "footprints" or similar pathfinders on the floor; maps; and browsing and…

Lists resources available from ERIC that address the nature, content, purpose, and appropriate pedagogy for social studies and citizenship education. Briefly summarizes the main argument of each resource. Includes information on availability and ordering of documents. (MJP)

An Illinois school district's multiyear, comprehensive plan requires the renovation of each school to accommodate state-of-the-art and future audiovisual and computer technology. A major part of each renovation is the school's media center. Five of the district's 13 schools have been renovated, with remaining schools set to be upgraded in phases…

Considers how school library media specialists can help students develop the knowledge and skills to help find success and satisfaction in the workforce. Discusses attending school beyond high school; the relationship between level of education and salary; high school students who work part time; and the role of the humanities. (LRW)

Explores the range of successful, cooperative relationships between public libraries and school library media centers and delineates factors that need to be considered in building such relationships. Discussion includes: rationale for cooperative relationships; historical perspective; 1990s perspective; roles and goals of each library; cooperative…

Provides a class activity that includes strategies for teachers and library media specialists to help students learn how to evaluate information. Includes the need to focus on specific information that is needed; developing research questions; the information gathering process; questioning; mind maps to help see relationships; and checking for…

Discusses the concept of taxonomy in learning. Highlights include cognitive domain, affective domain, and psycho-motor domain; behaviorism and constructivism; scaffolding; other classification formats, including rubrics and matrices; learning taxonomy applied to information literacy and to library media specialist as teacher; and the taxonomy for…

Discusses the growing dependence on information technology and considers cost factors for school library media specialists. Highlights include emphasizing learning over technology; administrative, assistive, and academic applications; how schools are using information technology; and Web sites that address issues related to information technology…

Presents results of a survey designed to provide an overview of the academic media center past, present, and immediate future. The survey included sections on the history of the academic media center and/or collection, current policies and functions of the academic media center, and the way in which Internet technologies have changed academic…

Describes five exemplary digital resource centers at the University of Virginia used by K-12 learners as well as by university students and faculty. These modern archives contain vast resources of thousands of primary sources, data sets, multimedia files, and analytical tools, all of which are electronically accessible to K-12 schools and…

Written in the early twentieth century, Virginia Woolf's essay, "A Room of One's Own," invites its readers to join her in search of the answer to the question of "women and fiction," and in the process the readers are treated to a piercingly articulate perspective on the condition of women in a world culture built on women's…