This book describes some of the challenges facing school library media specialists as they work with teachers and administrators in making appropriate use of computers in schools. Five chapters address the following topics: (1) the school in the context of the emerging information society; (2) the roles of school library media specialists in the process of dealing with computer-related technologies in the schools; (3) specific barriers to the integration of these technologies in schools and action strategies to work through these barriers; (4) action strategies for school library media specialists to use with computer-related technologies and sources of help in that process; and (5) the steps in the automation process and how school personnel will handle the power of computer-related technologies in the future. Included in the appendices are a sample school system policy on standardization of computer hardware and software; an annotated bibliography on uses of computer-related technologies; an annotated list of journals on this topic; and a list of vendors of microcomputer-based circulation and/or catalog systems. (JLB)