Presents the full text of the Task Force report on networking, adopted by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science to delineate the position of the school library media program within the total framework of national networking. The role of the school library media program is clarified. (Author/CMV)

A report of a national survey of recent school library legislation action at the federal, state, and local level. (Author)

Presents a state-of-the-art discussion of school library media supervision at the state, district, and regional levels. (Author)

A review of the concept of educational technology and the implications of educational technology for school library programs. (Author)

Describes the characteristics essential to conduct a good public relations program for the school library media center. Negative views of libraries and librarians are discussed, and strategies for enhancing the school library media center image are presented. (Author/BK)

Describes the background and outcome of a court case testing the right of a high school committee to bar an anthology from the school library. (CMV)

Examines the place of popular culture in the school library media center and the role of the library media specialist in integrating it into the curriculum. There are seven references. (Author/RAA)

Examines the progressive education movement and its relationship to the use of the school library as an alternative to the formal, mechanical processes of classroom instruction. Thirty-seven references are cited. (FM)

Presents a career development self-inventory for school library media specialists to use in assessing their career needs, and to aid in developing strategies to reach their professional goals. (Author/BK)

Describes the celebrations surrounding the presentation to the Greenwich, Connecticut Public Schools of the 1979 School Library Media Program of the Year Award. Details of the Greenwich school media program are included. (CMV)

Describes a nationwide survey of librarians in secondary school library media centers to find out how much self-censorship is practiced in collection development. Results indicating that librarians do seem to voluntarily censor their acquisitions are discussed. (BK)

Reviews the professionalization process in the school library media field; critically analyzes the field, drawing from the appropriate professional characteristics; and explores the field's ethos, especially the service orientation considered important for the field, which needs to be translated into ethical practice.

Four studies summarized are concerned with teacher use of secondary school libraries, the evaluation of a school/community library, selection tools for juvenile books, and effects of study of Mexican culture on students' perceptions of Mexican Americans. Three ERIC documents are also reviewed. (CMV)

The total system view shows that the school library is inseparable from the system it serves. It is a part of the total system, its objectives are derived from the total system, and its operations and procedures are designed to facilitate its contribution to the total system. (12 references) (Author)

Reviews selected studies of the curricular and instructional role of the school library media specialist to identify predominant patterns in research findings, and discusses their implications for librarians, educators, administrators, and other professionals. It includes 23 references. (RAA)