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School Library Programs: Standards and Guidelines for Texas, 2004

School Library Programs: Standards and Guidelines for Texas, 2004 [Word] [pdf]
as adopted by the Texas State Library & Archives Commission on March 19, 2004
Texas Administrative Code
Title 13. Cultural Resources
Part I. Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Chapter 4. School Library Programs
Subchapter A. Standards and Guidelines
Section 4.1

Links to Related Resources

"Revising School Library Programs: Standards and Guidelines for Texas" by Christine McNew. Article published in the Winter 2001 issue of Texas Library Journal (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) Guidelines for Certification of Texas School Librarians
info.sos.state.tx.us/pub/plsql/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=4&ti=19&pt=7&ch=239

AASL Information Power, 1998 Library Media Standards for Teachers of Students ages 3-18+, 2001 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Information Power Online Preview.
www.ala.org/aasl/ip_implementation.html
www.ala.org/aasl/ip_toc.html

National Standards for Library Media Specialists from the National Teachers Association.
new.nbpts.org/standards/complete/ecya_lm.pdf

The Texas Study, Texas School Libraries: Standards, Resources, Services, and Students' Performance.
www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/schlibsurvey/index.html

Key Results of Texas Study on School Libraries
[updated 4/9/03; MS Word; 37KB] www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/schoollibs/committees/tslresearch.doc

Article on the Texas Study published in the Summer 2001 issue of Texas Library Journal. www.txla.org/pubs/tlj77/summer01.html (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

State of Texas Master Plan for Educational Technology 2000-2003
This site has a link to the 2001-2002 Texas StaR Chart, a Tool for Planning and Assessing School Technology and Readiness aligned with the Texas Long-Range Plan for Technology.
www.edb.utexas.edu/etcc/

Technology Application TEKS on the Houston ISD web site dept.houstonisd.org/librarysvcs//scop&seq/Scope&Sequence.htm

TEKS correlated with Library practices, Big6, Information Power II, State Standards, and Recent research on Spring Branch ISD web site
it.springbranchisd.com/library-resources/

State Pages Relating to School Library/Media Services
The best Master List of School Libraries Issues/Facts including links to standards, certification for school librarians, statistics, long range plans, related laws, funding assessments, information literacy statements, research reports on school libraries, librarians, etc. (www.sldirectory.com/libsf/stlibs.html)
http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/stlibs.html

School Library Facts
Statistics/Counting/Data/Evaluation from Maryland.
www.bcpl.net/~dcurtis/libraryfacts/

School Library Standards and Evaluation
Includes links to standards from Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Texas and national…I'm including this page because it has other excellent links to other evaluation and measurement tools such as job descriptions, evaluations, action plans as well as links to articles on statistics and counting.
www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/evaluate.html


Christine McNew, Youth Services Consultant, welcomes your questions, comments and suggestions at christine.mcnew@tsl.state.tx.us.

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