School Library Media Centers: Selected Results from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002)

摘要

School libraries play an important role in making information available to students and in teaching students how to obtain and use that information. The constant improvement in the quality and affordability of personal computers, particularly when coupled with the increase in the availability of electronically stored information of all kinds, means that today's school libraries have become far more than simple repositories of books. One scholar suggests that, in order to meet the needs of today's students, school library media specialists .need to develop high-tech environments to provide the types of learning experiences that employers will require of their employees. Electronic access to local and remote online networks, in-house use of CD- ROM databases, and interactive media are necessary for all library media centers. (Craver 1995). This report provides an overview of the current state of school library media centers1 that serve U.S. 10th-graders.