Essential job competencies for curriculum materials center directors in teacher-education institutions were identified and analyzed through a questionnaire survey of 183 current center directors and 100 educators in the fields of educational media and technology. library and information science, or educational curriculum. Also investigated were…

This study was conducted to field-test collection mapping as an evaluation technique, to determine collection standards against which individual schools could compare themselves, and to compare the collections in schools to nationally-recommended lists published by Brodart and Wilson. Questionnaires were sent to 120 library media specialists in…

Study of 68 school media centers in 11 states was conducted to field-test collection mapping as a technique and to amass enough data to enable individual schools to compare their collections with national pool of school collections. Collections of participating schools were also compared to nationally recognized selection lists. (CDD)