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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The School Library Media Center in Today's Global Environment | |
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| Education in the United States | |
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| The Education Environment Today | |
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| Alternatives to Traditional Education | |
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| The Media Center in the Educational Environment | |
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| History of School Libraries and Library Media Centers | |
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| Relationship with Public Libraries | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| School Library Media Centers Today | |
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| Collaboration and Integration with the Curriculum | |
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| Information and Technology/Digital Literacy | |
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| Information Literacy | |
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| Technology/Digital Literacy | |
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| Writing a Technology Plan | |
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| Online Database Searching | |
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| Online Public Access Catalogs and Circulation Systems | |
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| Communications Links | |
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| Telefacsimile Transmission (Fax) and Internet Access | |
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| Filtering | |
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| Local and Wide Area Networks to Wireless | |
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| Teleconferencing and Distance Education | |
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| The Role of Library Media Specialists and Critical Thinking Skills | |
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| A Day in the Life of a High School Media Specialist | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| Becoming a School Library Media Specialist | |
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| Preparing School Library Media Specialists | |
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| Choosing a Library Media Specialist Education Program | |
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| Obtaining Certification | |
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| How to Find a Job | |
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| Continuing Professional Education | |
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| Recuriting for the Profession | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| Choosing and Beginning the Job | |
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| Determining District Administrative Practice | |
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| Beginning the Job | |
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| Facility Factors | |
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| Human Factors | |
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| Finding Out About Staff | |
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| Finding Out About Building Administrators | |
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| Finding Out About Teachers | |
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| Finding Out About Students | |
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| Finding Out About Parents | |
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| Collection Factors | |
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| Locating Curricular Resources | |
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| Rules for Circulation and for Use of Computers | |
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| When the Students Arrive | |
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| Exercises | |
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| On the Job: Managing the Media Center Program | |
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| The Library Media Advisory Committee | |
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| Strategic Planning | |
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| Policy Statements and Needs Assessment | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Organizing | |
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| Systematic Feedback and Adjustments | |
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| Graphic Representations of the Planning Process | |
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| Flow Charts | |
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| Extended Projects | |
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| Scheduling the Media Center | |
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| Electronic Calendars and Daily Plan Books | |
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| Leadership and the Library Media Specialist | |
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| Leading the Planning Process | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| On the Job: Managing the Facility | |
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| Rearranging Facilities | |
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| Remodeling the Facility | |
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| Planning New Facilities | |
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| Moving a Media Center | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| On the Job: Managing Personnel | |
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| Managing Media Center Staff | |
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| Job Titles and Job Descriptions | |
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| Personnel Management Competencies | |
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| The Role of the Media Specialist in Staffing | |
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| The Media Specialist as Part of the Teaching Staff | |
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| The Media Specialist as Leader | |
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| Securing Qualified Personnel | |
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| Assigning Job Responsibilities and Motivating Staff | |
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| In-Service Training | |
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| Standards of Performance | |
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| Evaluating Staff | |
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| Managing with Administrators | |
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| Managing with Teachers | |
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| Managing Students | |
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| Managing Parents and Volunteers | |
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| Friends of the Library | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| On the Job: Managing Access to Information | |
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| Right to Privacy | |
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| Defending the Right to Access Information | |
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| Copyright | |
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| Technology Decisions | |
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| Integrated Library Systems | |
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| Building and Maintaining the Resource Collection | |
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| Circulation of Materials | |
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| Selecting Materials and Equipment: Format Decisions | |
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| Selecting Materials | |
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| Selecting Information from the Internet | |
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| Selecting Equipment | |
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| Acquiring Materials and Equipment | |
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| De-selection of Materials (Weeding) | |
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| Options for Cataloging | |
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| Housing the Collection | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| On the Job: Managing the Budget | |
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| The Fiscal Year | |
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| Writing Specifications | |
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| Cost Accountability and the Media Specialist | |
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| Writing Proposals to Expand Programs | |
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| Developing the Statement of Needs | |
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| Preparing Goals and Objectives | |
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| Establishing the Plan of Action | |
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| Planning for Evaluation | |
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| Deciding the Dissemination | |
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| Describing Local Resources | |
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| Building the Budget | |
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| Additional Considerations | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| On the Job: Managing Services | |
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| Understanding Curriculum | |
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| Analyzing Teaching Methods | |
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| Assistance with Classroom Assignments | |
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| Teaching the New Kinds of Literacy | |
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| The Media Specialist in the Classroom | |
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| The Media Center as Classroom | |
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| Media Center Activities | |
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| Conducting In-Service Training Sessions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| On the Job: School Library Media Centers and the Reading Program | |
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| Ready Access to a Good Book Helps Improve Reading Skills | |
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| Commercial Reading Incentive and Software Programs | |
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| Sharing Reading Research | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| On the Job: Advocacy and the Media Center | |
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| What to Market | |
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| How to Market | |
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| Promotion | |
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| Preparing Presentations | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| On the Job: Managing Program Evaluation and Assessment | |
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| Quantitative Measures | |
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| Qualitative Measures | |
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| Appraising the Facility | |
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| Staff or Performance Appraisal | |
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| Collection Measurement | |
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| Administrator's Program Appraisal | |
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| Contributing to the Education of Students: Assessing Student Learning | |
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| After the First Year | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| On the Job: Cooperation, Networking, and Social Networking | |
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| The Internet and the World Wide Web | |
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| Embracing New Technologies | |
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| Electronic Publishing | |
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| Continuing Access to Information in All Formats | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| Leadership and Professional Associations | |
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| Education Associations | |
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| Library and Media Associations | |
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| School Library Media Specialists and the Political Process | |
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| School Library Media Specialists in the Global Community | |
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| Looking Like a Professional, Making You a Professional | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Notes | |
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| Writing a Technology Plan | |
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| Sample Letter of Application | |
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| Questionnaire | |
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| Presentation of a Five-Year Long-Range Plan | |
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| For Library Media Center Development | |
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| Personnel | |
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| Facility | |
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| Equipment | |
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| Budget | |
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| Travel | |
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| Equipment | |
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| Computer Software | |
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| Collection | |
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| Volunteers | |
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| ALA Intellectual Freedom Policy Statements | |
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| 53.1 Library Bill of Rights | |
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| Note | |
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| Publications List | |
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| Budget Information Needed for Grant Applications | |
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| Sample Letter to Legislator | |
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| Index | |