This paper describes the Educational Media Center (EMC) at the University of Michigan School of Education and its attempts to become technologically ready for competency-based teacher education. The EMC, a facility for storing, producing, promoting, and disseminating learning resources, comprises seven components. A media library serves as a model…

Four instruments to be used in developing school library and media programs are included in this package. Two questionnaires, addressed to students, teachers, administrators, and library staff, inventory current services and determine service priorities. Seventeen charts for data collection and a 20-page costing matrix are provided. Instructions…

Cuesta College's Learning Center is designed to totally support the instructional methods of each instructor, to meet the individual learning and study needs of each student, and to provide cultural and educational resource opportunities to the community. The facility is to be a traditional library, whose total media storage and retrieval capacity…

An automated service center was established to assist in developing improved and extended instructional materials services for all teachers and students in the public and private schools of an eleven county area in New York state through offering coordinated and automated purchasing, cataloging and processing of all forms of instructional…

The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges launched the Microform Project in 1969 under a contract with the U.S. Office of Education. The major product of Phase I (1969-1970) was a bibliography of resource materials used in 10 courses of study at community colleges (see ED 040 708). During Phase II (1970-1971), a series of pilot…

This handbook for library or instructional materials center aides can be used by or with students or volunteer adults who participate in the processing and circulating of all media used by students in a school. It includes vocabulary, suggests procedures, and identifies audio-visual equipment usually found in a media center. (Author)

The Dade County, Florida public school system prepared this description of a course which is designed to provide students the opportunity to acquire competencies in the utilization of various resources of the library, including the card catalog, periodical indexes, reference materials and audiovisual resources. The course exposes the student to…

In order to provide students with a semi-independent study/learning environment, a Learning Materials Center (LMC) was developed at Cerritos College (California). Of the four courses in the LMC program, Math-30 (elementary algebra) was chosen for study because it provided opportunities for follow-up studies. The purpose of this study was to…

THE SYLLABUSES STUDY COMMITTEE ON THE CORRESPONDENCE STUDY DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IS STUDYING THE POSSIBILITY OF A CENTRAL REPOSITORY FOR SYLLABUSES USED IN CORRESPONDENCE STUDY, IN INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION, AND/OR PERHAPS IN OTHER FORMS OF INDEPENDENT STUDY OFF-CAMPUS. A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO 62 MEMBER…

The fourth of a six-part series explains how educational specifications are translated into floors, doors, and walls. (Author/MLF)

Pitfalls, snares, and other traps to avoid in planning a media facility. (Author)

Describes a study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education which identified 62 outstanding library programs and lists 22 model school library programs and 16 programs serving school systems. Topics discussed include the search process, selection criteria, school library programs, cooperation, innovations, technology, and the catalog that…

This series of articles discusses the use of adult and student volunteers in school libraries, focusing on volunteer recruitment; planning, implementation, and evaluation of volunteer programs; training methods and materials; and appropriate rewards for volunteers. (CLB)

Highlights the need for two-year college libraries to expand services to educationally disadvantaged persons. Explores the nature of this target group and some of the barriers to higher education they face. Considers the implications their needs have for learning resource centers and discusses some potentially effective responses to those needs.…

Two authors of children's books discuss the elements of a successful school visit, including how to select and contact an author; fees; choosing dates; having books available; planning collaboratively with authors, principals, teachers, and parents; organizing the schedule; the author as critic; publicity; travel plans; autographs; and follow-up.…