Maryland presents guidelines for its unified approach to media in education. Part I presents goals for long-range planning of media technology programs and includes recommendations for achieving objectives in the following areas: (1) personnel and resources; (2) facilities; (3) assessment and evaluation; (4) cooperative activities; (5)…

The document outlines aspects of the new National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped (NCEMMH), whose establishment was approved by Public Law 91-61 in August, 1969. It will provide a setting where special education educators and educational technologists can create, design, and develop new instructional tools and…

The basic assumption of this paper is that every teaching aid whether it be identified as an audiovisual aid, instructional aid, multisensory aid to learning, or soft ware for hardware is read by the listener, viewer, participant, and thinker. With this in mind, the role of the properly staffed instructional materials center in an elementary…

Elementary and secondary school programs have been and still are undergoing changes that will influence facilities design for the schools of the 1970's. The program of the school library media center is certainly also being affected by these changes. A flexible approach is warranted in locating the media center within the school. Students and…

A comprehensive view of the instructional resources center at Iowa State University is presented. The center is used primarily for students in teacher education, who design multi-media teaching packages as part of their course work. This paper includes information on the center's staff, which includes a director, an instructor, graduate…

This paper offers a basic discussion of facility planning for media use. Guidelines cited have been corroborated by field experiments and research conducted by the author. (Author)

Presents a television project that aims to produce a number of 30-minute programs, under the series title of "Syntheses," to improve public understanding of the interaction between science and public policy. Two programs: The President's Scientist and Alaska Oil are also discussed. (HM)

This book on managing media services focuses on the administration of nonprint materials and services. The following chapters are included: (1) Managing Media Services: An Overview; (2) Philosophical Perspectives; (3) Planning Media Service Programs; (4) Management Basics; (5) Managing Media Materials Services; (6) Managing Media Equipment…

Presents guidelines found to be effective in the reorganization of learning resource services toward consolidation of campus-wide learner-oriented support activities. (RAO)

Library journals are inundated with articles pertinent to the installation of electric security systems, but few relate directly to school media programs. School media specialists should use available studies and contribute to the available research to insure effective decision making about adopting appropriate security measures. (CMV)

Discusses the role of university media centers and describes a spreadsheet reporting system for media services developed at Fairfield University (Connecticut). The need to revise the reporting system resulting from a growth in media services is discussed, and cooperation with an information system analyst to develop a new system is described. (LRW)

This report presents an analysis of data provided by 196 usable responses to a survey of a stratified sample of 282 college and university media centers. Information was collected on the following topics: current trends in budget and personnel levels; the degree of moral support provided by supervisors and the faculty clientele; the extent to…

In a presentation at a symposium on educational media for teaching the deaf (1974), results are presented from a 1973 survey of media utilization in approximately 300 educational programs for the hearing impaired. (LS)