Thesis (Ph. D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 1981. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72).

The paper addresses issues in establishing a user-friendly systematic collection arrangement following a merger of two high school and college library collections classified according to UDC. In the way it was used, this scheme presented some weaknesses with respect to collection usage. Due to the disciplinary nature of UDC, subjects and phenomena are dispersed in the scheme according to the disciplines in which they are the subject of study. At the same time students in a school library often seek interdisciplinary subjects and need access to clusters of documents which according to UDC may be classed in several different knowledge areas. The author illustrates how this problem was resolved by re-arranging the collection according to phenomena. This was achieved by interpreting UDC numbers as if they represented specific phenomena. Thus, by superimposing some local indexing rules onto a disciplinary knowledge organization system it was possible to collocate interdisciplinary subjects under a single class number. Furthermore, by reversing subject numbers and form auxiliaries (atlases, dictionaries, textbooks etc.) which is an option envisaged in the design of UDC, documents were collocated in the way they are most frequently used by students. The author suggests that, in practice, one often needs to overcome the constraints of disciplinary classification and he discusses the approach used in his school library collection.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Rowan University, 2007. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

This study has addressed three core questions: What is the current state of School Library Services? How is the Education Reform Act affecting these services? Why are specific choices being made by School Library Services from the options available post-ERA? Information was gathered from questionnaires, consultation, seminars etc., and also by contact 1989-91 with 14 authorities in England and Wales. Specific matters investigated over the two-year period were: Structures; Policies; Service range and level; Relationships. The study found evidence that ERA had a significant effect during this period on library support services to schools, but that other influences on change were at work, most notably the community charge and its repercussions. All the School Library Services in the contact authorities changed between 1989 and 1991, although in different degrees, and it was observed that the effect of national legislation was being mediated by local cultures. The hypothesis that 'The Education Reform Act is leading to new perceptions of School Library Service effectiveness' was upheld, and factors making for effectiveness were identified.

Well-resourced and functional school libraries are important resource centres for teachers and learners, particularly in historically disadvantaged communities where other information services such as public or community libraries and multipurpose centres are few or virtually non-existent. However, only a minority of the schools in South Africa have well-stocked and well-staffed school libraries. In the Limpopo Province, the situation leaves much to be desired because only 2.3 % of the state schools have well-resourced and functional school libraries. Importantly, for the different school library facilities to be functional, an approved school library policy with endorsed school library standards and models is essential. Amazingly, there is no approved and legislated national school library policy in South Africa to support a progressive, constructivist and resource-thirsty curriculum. The purpose of the study was to investigate provision of school libraries in the Limpopo Province. The purpose of the study was to investigate provision of school libraries in the Limpopo Province. With well-stocked and functional school libraries, teachers and learners can access the library-based resources for curriculum support. The study was limited to public high schools only in both urban and rural communities of the province. The study is based on the constructive teaching and learning theory which emphasises the use of different resources to stimulate progressive and constructivist teaching and learning styles in schools. A multi-case study research design was adopted for data collection. Qualitative and quantitative research approaches were adopted in the study to investigate the focus of the study in-depth and intensively. Data were collected through questionnaires administered to 163 teacher-librarians or principals of the sampled 306 public high schools. The education officials, that is, the senior manager and two chief education specialists were interviewed face-to-face using an interview schedule. The findings of the study established that more than 33% of the public high schools in the study had a library facility. However, the findings indicated that the majority of the school library facilities were non-functional because the fundamentals of school library development such as a legislated school library policy are not in place. The absence of an overarching library policy leads to, lack of strategic direction, inadequate provision of resources, compromised functionality as well as the poor standing and value of school libraries. The study recommends that the newly launched National Guidelines for School Library and Information Services (2012) be legislated to become school library policy so that school library standards can be implemented in different school library models to enable teachers and learners to have access to library resources to support the constructivist and resource-based curriculum. / Information Science / D. Litt. et Phil. (Information Science)

Esta dissertação pretende, a partir de uma revisão de literatura e da análise dos dados coletados pelos alunos da disciplina de Metodologia do Ensino de Língua Portuguesa da Universidade de São Paulo, colocar em pauta algumas questões relativas ao trabalho de leitura na escola e ao papel da biblioteca escolar na formação do leitor literário nos dias de hoje. Procede-se a uma análise dos documentos oficiais que norteiam a ação das escolas para perceber como são debatidos os assuntos objeto de nossa pesquisa. Busca-se compreender como a biblioteca escolar está inserida na escola, e levantar pontos relativos à formação inicial e continuada do professor no que tange à formação do leitor na escola e à biblioteca escolar. Em seguida, busca-se resgatar exemplos de sucesso de planos educacionais de outros países, a saber, Portugal e França, e suas políticas públicas direcionadas para esse espaço pedagógico. Procura-se identificar qual o conceito atual de biblioteca escolar e como é a formação do professor responsável pela biblioteca no ensino básico. Ao compreender essa relação biblioteca escolar-leitura-professor-alunos, pretendemos levantar questões pertinentes aos temas norteadores dessa pesquisa tanto na formação inicial quanto na continuada dos professores que trabalham com leitura na escola. / This dissertation aims at raising some discussions related to the work done in schools today when it comes to reading and the role of the library in the formation of the students as readers nowadays. In order to do that, we aim at reviewing the actual literature and analyze the data collected by the under-graduate students of Metodologia do Ensino de Língua Portuguesa at the Universidade de São Paulo. The starting point is the analysis of the official documents that regulate schools in order to understand the way the topic presented here is discussed today. We seek to understand how the library is part of the school and raise topics related to the initial and continuous formation of the teacher in relation to the formation of the student-reader and the school library. Following this, we intend to present successful examples and educations plans, such as Portugal and France and their public policies on libraries as public spaces. It is intended to identify the concept of the library in schools and the background of the responsible teacher for the library. By understanding this relation library-reading-teacher-students, we aim at raising pertinent questions to the topics of this research not only for the teachers in the initial moments of their formation, but also for the teachers in continuous formation that work with reading in schools.

Aborda a biblioteca escolar, a partir de uma interface entre a Ciência da Informação, Análise do Discurso de linha francesa e Educação. Busca compreender como a historicidade e a memória discursiva sustentam sentidos sobre o que é esta unidade de informação escolar, observando o litígio entre posições-sujeito e vozes discursivas manifestas em um corpus, composto por recortes de dizeres presentes em blogs, listas de discussão e sites que discursivizam a biblioteca escolar. Objetiva, assim, analisar discursivamente os movimentos do sujeito e dos sentidos nas páginas eletrônicas sobre biblioteca escolar, observando se a rede eletrônica configura-se como o lugar da tão aclamada possibilidade de emergência do sujeito e de dizeres polissêmicos, que façam surgir sentidos além do dominante. Pretende, ainda, refletir sobre a ideologia como mecanismo de naturalização dos sentidos e produção de evidências sobre alguns discursos sobre a biblioteca escolar, e não outros, marcando o que pode ou não ser dito. Para desenvolver tais questões, inicialmente, discorre sobre alguns conceitos fundamentais da Análise do Discurso. Na etapa seguinte, percorre um (ciber)espaço instável, múltiplo e movente, investigando desde as suas condições de produção e as (im)possibilidades de navegação até a maneira como é estruturado e (re)construído, a partir do movimento de sujeitos e sentidos que se constituem ao mesmo tempo, em suas redes. Em seguida, aborda a biblioteca escolar, apresentando os sentidos circulantes em diferentes formações discursivas, a fim de investigar quais retornam, são silenciados ou, ainda, reconstruídos. Apresenta, também, algumas considerações sobre a leitura e pesquisa escolar que, por serem as atividades mais praticadas na biblioteca, tem grande importância na constituição de sentidos sobre ela. Por último, analisa alguns sites de escolas brasileiras, a fim de investigar como elas são discursivizadas, fazendo também algumas considerações sobre as bibliotecas escolares digitais, quais seriam as suas contribuições para novas práticas educativas, indagando se/como é possível sua disseminação no contexto educacional brasileiro. Finalmente, procura analisar discursivamente as representações imaginárias da biblioteca escolar no corpus selecionado. A partir das análises dispostas ao longo do trabalho, infere-se que o ciberespaço heterogêneo e interativo faz falar também o plural, permite os furos nas regiões de sentido estabilizadas pelo retorno da memória, suscitando outras maneiras de enunciar sobre essa instituição, outras margens de sentido. / It discusses the school library, from an interface between the Information Science, french Discourse Analysis and Education. It intends to understand how the historicity and discursive memory claim senses about this institution, observing the dispute between subject positions and discursive voices expressed in data, composed by clippings of discourses present in blogs, mailing lists and websites which put in discourse the school library. It aims to analyze, therefore, the movements of the subject and senses in the electronic pages on school libraries, checking if the web configures itself as the place of possibility of emergence of the subject and polysemic words, which raised meanings beyond the dominant. It aims to reflect about the ideology how a mechanism of naturalization of senses and production of evidences about some discourses on school library, and not others, marking which may or not be said. To develop such questions, first It discusses some fundamental concepts of discourse analysis. Then, It tours a (cyber) space unstable, multiple and moving, investigating from their conditions of production and the (im) possibilities of navigating to the way It is structured and (re) constructed from the movement of subjects and senses that constitute themselves in the same time on web. Then, It abroaches school library showing the senses that go around different discursive formations in order to investigate which of them returns, is silenced or rebuilt. It also presents some considerations about reading and scholar research which, being the most practiced activities in the library, they have great importance in the constitution of senses on it. Finally, It analyzes some sites of brazilian schools in order to investigate how they are put in discourse and It also makes some considerations about the digital school library, what are their contributions to educational practices, questioning if/how its possible its dissemination in the brazilian educational context. Lastly, It analyzes the imaginary representations of the school library in data. From the analysis made during this work, It\'s possible to say that the interactive and heterogeneous cyberspace allows the ruptures in the regions of sense stabilized by the return of memory, prompting other ways of stating on this institution, other margins of sense.

This present study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of two types of school library displays: a display with books only, called Display, and a display with books, posters, models, copy, and realia, called Display +. The effectiveness of these displays was to be measured in two ways: a) through the observation of the attaction power, holding power and viewer participation in a display and b) through measuring the circulation of displayed books. Before commencing the study a literature search was conducted. The result of the literature search yielded four authors, Goldhor (1972; 1981), Aguilar (1983), Watson (1985), and Baker (1986), who had researched the relationship between circulation and displays. Each of these studies used the measurable effect of circulation increasing, decreasing or remaining constant to determine the effect of the display. This present study used a similar methodology and monitored the circulation of books on both types of displays. However, this study sought to go beyond the effect of circulation in determining the effectiveness of displays because the previous studies had not taken into account the library user who is affected by the display but is unable to borrow a book from the display. The literature search turned towards the area of museum exhibits and displays and the methodology employed to evaluate these exhibits and displays. Shettel (1968), Warren (1972), Screven (1976), Linn (1976), Clowes and Wolfe (1980), and Miles (1982) used attraction and holding power as measures of museum exhibit and display effectiveness. Similarly, library users can be attracted and their attention held by library displays. To the variables of attraction and holding power this study added the variable of participation, picking up books or other items in the display not necessarily with the intent of borrowing the books. In order to construct a Display + and control as far as possible the elements in the display a literature search of books and articles relating to the design elements of displays was conducted, and findings applied in the construction of the display. Shettel's (1968) methodology of unobtrusive observation was employed in this study with the added benefit of videotaping the observations. The hypotheses were set out in three groups, those relating to a single display, those comparing the effectiveness of Display and Display +, and those relating to circulation. The results of this study found in general that the attraction power of Display + exceeded the attraction power of Display but the holding power and participation in Display was greater than that of Display + indicating that the designer of library displays should pay particular attention to the purpose of displays in their libraries. The results of the circulation hypothesis confirmed the results of Goldhor (1972;1981), Aguilar (1983), Watson (1985), and Baker (1986) that more books circulated when they were displayed than when they were on the library shelves.

This two year masters thesis is written in the scientific field of library- and information science. The purpose of the study is to investigate the collaboration between teachers and librarians in different types of school library organisations. Two school libraries with only the school as a target group, two integrated public- and school libraries, one school library division and one public library that provides the school with school library services has been studied. The study takes place in Uppland. The theoretical framework used is based on Montiel-Overall and her four models of collaboration: coordina-tion, cooperation, integrated instruction and integrated curriculum. The first research question focuses on the col-laboration between teachers and librarians based on each of the TLC-models. The second research question goes into factors that limit collaboration between librarians and teachers. The methods used are qualitative text analysis and qualitative interviews. The main focus is on the interviews. The study is based on the librarians point of view. The interviews and the text analysis are analysed together under six different subject fields based on the research questions. Collaboration takes place largely within the models A (coordination) and B (cooperation). Some collabora-tions conducted in the school library organisations has however components from model C (integrated instruc-tion). It is less common with deeper forms of collaborations in the result of this study. A lack of resources like time has been observed that limits the collaboration between teachers and librarians. The collaboration between teachers and librarians need to be emphasized and prioritized.