Library Technology Plan

Rivertown is a district with 16 schools--11 elementary schools, two junior highs, two high schools, and a continuation high school. The district has recently added an alternative education center which has caused the district to expand its operations at the district level. The district is lower to lower-middle class in terms of the socioeconomic community, but financially better off than some wealthier communities because of Title I funds. The district receives money for its remedial programs, primarily geared to reading, from federal sources. Some of the materials purchased from Title I funds find their way into the district's libraries in the form of reading kits and other supplemental teaching materials.

The district has approximately 14,000 students, with periods of growth to no growth. A new high school was just completed last year. Currently there are about 2,500 students at the new high school. The district's older high school is now ten years old. Rivertown's new high school (Dale High School, with a population of 3,000 students) will serve as the focus, or the model, for the technology plan to be discussed. Ideally, th

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omputer room secured from the remainder of the library. A recommended lineup of useful titles would be the following: the complete (30 volume) Grolier's Encyclopedia Americana on one disc ($4,000); Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia (graphics and text, whereas the Encyclopedia Americana is all text)(included "free" with many Macintosh computers as "bundled software); and EBSCO's MAS (Magazine Abstract Service) Elite (full text of articles from 138 different periodicals and indexing and abstracting for 400 others)($3,700). The plan to include the above technologies presupposes that information literacy (the ability to locate information) is as important as the information itself, and computer technologies lead us to be computer literate as well. In his Administering the School Library Media Center, Gillespie (1983) writes, To be computer literate, students should be aware of: (1) what computers can and cannot do, (2) how they function, (3) basic principles of programming, (4) the basic vocabulary in the field, (5) computer system components, (6) applications of computer technology, and (7) the impact of computers on society. To promote this new form of literacy, almost 50 percent of the nation's schools now have instructiona
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