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... provides excellent ideas and information to guide those responsible for developing and providing library service to children and young adults in a school setting. This is not, it must be emphasized, your usual guide to running a library on a day-to-day basis. It is a careful and thoughtful examination of the technological, economic, employment, educational, social and behavioral, instructional, and organizational and managerial trends that will have an impact on the development of school media centers in the next decade. Craver begins with a chilling scenario that contrasts two visions of tomorrow-library media services in a utopian school and those in a dystopian school. She concludes with a short chapter that concisely outlines eight challenges that school library media centers and school library media specialists must meet if they are to come close to matching the positive vision of the future she outlines in her utopian scenario. -Wilson Library Bulletin A planning resource for media specialists, this book contains important information for administrators, those who control funds, and those planning careers as school library media specialists. -VOYA Media specialists and administrators involved in future planning will find this very useful; Craver's numerous statistical forecasts will prove helpful for Board of Education presentations, too. -Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin This is a must-read' for practicing school library media specialists. It is not simply trends for library media centers that Craver documents, but trends that will affect every facet of our professional lives. Valuable information (including some shocking statistics) is tightly organized into eight chapters that present trends for seven general areas, such as technology, the economy, education, employment, and organization and management....Media specialists will want to dive into this volume with notebook in hand to capture the stunning statistics, quotations, and ideas -- with perhaps a friend nearby to whom they can call out, Hey listen to this!' -School Library Journal ?Media specialists and administrators involved in future planning will find this very useful; Craver's numerous statistical forecasts will prove helpful for Board of Education presentations, too.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin ?...provides excellent ideas and information to guide those responsible for developing and providing library service to children and young adults in a school setting. This is not, it must be emphasized, your usual guide to running a library on a day-to-day basis. It is a careful and thoughtful examination of the technological, economic, employment, educational, social and behavioral, instructional, and organizational and managerial trends that will have an impact on the development of school media centers in the next decade. Craver begins with a chilling scenario that contrasts two visions of tomorrow-library media services in a utopian school and those in a dystopian school. She concludes with a short chapter that concisely outlines eight challenges that school library media centers and school library media specialists must meet if they are to come close to matching the positive vision of the future she outlines in her utopian scenario.?-Wilson Library Bulletin ?A planning resource for media specialists, this book contains important information for administrators, those who control funds, and those planning careers as school library media specialists.?-VOYA ?This is a must-read' for practicing school library media specialists. It is not simply trends for library media centers that Craver documents, but trends that will affect every facet of our professional lives. Valuable information (including some shocking statistics) is tightly organized into eight chapters that present trends for seven general areas, such as technology, the economy, education, employment, and organization and management....Media specialists will want to dive into this volume with notebook in hand to capture the stunning statistics, quotations, and ideas -- with perhaps a friend nearby to whom they can call out, Hey listen to this!'?-School Library Journal .,. provides excellent ideas and information to guide those responsible for developing and providing library service to children and young adults in a school setting. This is not, it must be emphasized, your usual guide to running a library on a day-to-day basis. It is a careful and thoughtful examination of the technological, economic, employment, educational, social and behavioral, instructional, and organizational and managerial trends that will have an impact on the development of school media centers in the next decade. Craver begins with a chilling scenario that contrasts two visions of tomorrow-library media services in a utopian school and those in a dystopian school. She concludes with a short chapter that concisely outlines eight challenges that school library media centers and school library media specialists must meet if they are to come close to matching the positive vision of the future she outlines in her utopian scenario. -Wilson Library Bulletin

.,. provides excellent ideas and information to guide those responsible for developing and providing library service to children and young adults in a school setting. This is not, it must be emphasized, your usual guide to running a library on a day-to-day basis. It is a careful and thoughtful examination of the technological, economic, employment, educational, social and behavioral, instructional, and organizational and managerial trends that will have an impact on the development of school media centers in the next decade. Craver begins with a chilling scenario that contrasts two visions of tomorrow-library media services in a utopian school and those in a dystopian school. She concludes with a short chapter that concisely outlines eight challenges that school library media centers and school library media specialists must meet if they are to come close to matching the positive vision of the future she outlines in her utopian scenario. -Wilson Library Bulletin

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KATHLEEN W. CRAVER has been Head Librarian at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., since 1987. Prior to that time, she was Associate Professor of Library Administration, University High School, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been a school librarian in both public and private schools for 18 years. She holds a doctorate in Library Science from the University of Illiois and is the author of a monograph, The Changing Instructional Role of the High School Librarian (1986), and numerous articles on school librarianship.

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