School library media centers are at a critical juncture. Over the
next decade, schools will undergo fundamental technological,
economic, societal, instructional, and administrative changes.
Craver discusses the major forces for change confronting school
libraries, analyzes their implications as a guide for future
decision making, and recommends that school library media
specialists assume a leadership role in meeting these challenges.
The work provides current data and statistics on future trends in
technology, employment, education, society, instruction, and school
administration that can help the school library media specialist to
formulate forceful arguments for the acquisition of new
technologies, instructional reform, and full implementation of
resource-based learning. School library media specialists who need
to plan and make decisions about the future of their school
libraries will find this book an invaluable resource. To visualize
the future, Craver creates contrasting scenarios of utopian and
dystopian school library media centers in the 21st century. Chapter
1, Technological Trends, discusses the digitalization of all media
and the implications of the technological revolution on the school
library media center. Chapter 2, Economic Trends, considers the
impact of demographic changes and declining budgets and how to deal
with them. Chapter 3, Employment Trends, outlines future trends in
the workforce and suggests ways in which the school library can
respond. Chapter 4, Educational Trends, charts the decline in
literacy and the growing school reform movement. Chapter 5, Social
and Behavioral Trends, discusses the change from a nation with
minorities to a nation of minorities and the transformation of the
American family. Chapter 6, Instructional Trends, shows how the
instructional role of the school library media specialist will
change with the presence of advanced technologies. Chapter 7,
Organizational and Managerial Trends, describes the role the school
library media specialist will have to assume as the technological,
economic, educational, and cultural changes affect the daily
business of the media center. Chapter 8, Challenges, focuses on a
series of challenges in technology, performance-based programs,
collection development, instruction, and organization and
manayement of the library media center.
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