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Academic Library Service to Disabled Students: Today and Tomorrow.
Stone, Elizabeth W. – 1983
The presentation focuses on the status of disabled persons in the world, notes progress made in improved living conditions for the disabled, and considers implications for libraries serving disabled clients. Services currently offered in academic libraries are described, as are goals related to four aims specified by the United Nations during the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Higher Education, Libraries, Library Services
The Flag of the United States and State Flags, Seals & Mottoes.
Kennon, Donald R.; Kerr, Mary Lee – 1989
A detailed and descriptive narrative is presented about the U.S. flag's history, development, symbolic meaning, and overall importance. Information about the U.S. seal and how it identifies what the United States stands for as a nation is given. A motto is defined as a word or phrase that expresses one's principles, religious, moral, or patriotic…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Government (Administrative Body), Higher Education, Social Studies
Hard Facts, Hard Work: Academic Libraries and "A Nation at Risk"--A Symposium.
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Martell, Charles; And Others – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1988
Reviews issues cited in "A Nation at Risk" and other studies calling for educational reform, and discusses the role of libraries in general, and academic libraries in particular, in improving education in the United States. Library programs at three universities, involving information literacy, research skills, and peer counseling, are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Needs
Alliance for Excellence: Librarians Respond to "A Nation at Risk." Recommendations and Strategies from Libraries and the Learning Society.
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Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. Center for Libraries and Education Improvement. – 1984
In response to the National Commission on Excellence in Education's Report, "A Nation at Risk," the Department of Education's Center for Libraries and Education Improvement, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, invited leaders in the library and information science community to a meeting in September 1983 to help launch a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Educational Needs, Educational Quality
Library and Information Science and Archive Administration: A Guide to Building Up a Basic Collection for Library Schools.
Parker, J. Stephen, Comp. – 1984
This bibliography identifies a useful selection of basic documents and publications to provide help and guidance to schools of library and information science and archival studies--especially those in developing countries--that wish to establish a basic collection for the use of students and teachers or to enlarge their existing collection.…
Descriptors: Archives, Developing Nations, Higher Education, Information Science
South Pacific Region Pilot Project on School Library Development: Training Programmes for Teachers.
Trask, Margaret; And Others – 1984
The Pilot Project on School Library Development has designed two course to train primary and secondary teachers and teacher librarians in the South Pacific Region. Oriented to the needs of the teacher as a library user, the first course seeks to stimulate teachers to encourage students to use library resources for seeking information and for…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Developing Nations