School Library Year Plans

Evaluating School Library Services

ATTEMPTST O improve the school library through an appraisal of its present strengths and weaknesses are not new, but emphasis upon the effectiveness of its educational service rather than upon the adequacy of its facilities is of relatively recent origin. Changes in the instruments and procedures for evaluation of the school library have corresponded closely with changes in educational measurem...

Education Stats Made Visible: Helping School District Managers Write Better Three-Year Plans

1. Problem: School district leaders in California are awash in a sea of data, but are often unable to find it, query it, or relate it with other data. Districts are islands, leaving district managers able to see only their own data. A state education agency gathers and republishes districts’ data, but doesn’t clean it. New laws now require them to plan in public, set goals, assign resources, an...

The “ Illinois School ” of Thinking about Plans

Choosing the scope of a plan is a fundamental question for plan makers. This question arises both in explaining plan making we observe and in justifying plan making we recommend. We frame this question from the perspective of potential participants, from the bottom up, rather than from the perspective of creating a planning process by expert judgment about scope, from the top down, such as an a...

The Library Bill of Rights and School Library Media Programs

THISARTICLE TRACES THE VALUE AND USE of the Library Bill of Rights in school library media settings through an examination of national library media collection development texts, intellectual freedom publicaconcludes that inrealizing that the Library Bill of Rights is for support and guidance. INTRODUCTION Gordon Baldwin, in this issue of Library Trends, examines the Library Bill of Rights from...

Extending the School Day or School Year