A Brief History of Library Media Collection Development Federal Funding
	October 14, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first earth satellite, Sputnik.
	1958 National Defense Education Act A total of $70 million each year for fiscal 1959, 1960, 1961, and 1962 was authorized to the states as grants for the purchase of equipment and as loans to private schools to purchase equipment.
	1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA Title II) provided funds for purchase of library materials and textbooks. Revised at five-year intervals ever since, and now provides about $15 billion in federal support for K-12 education. The 1994 reauthorization added a new title to target direct federal investment in school technology, and its programs such as the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund (TLCF) provide nearly $800 million annually. 1974 The Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title IV consolidated funding for public and private schools into two parts, B and C. Part B combined school resources and and educational materials; testing, counseling and guidance and financial assistance for the strengthening of instruction. Federal response to the significant social change taking place in American society. 1981 Educational Consolidation and Improvement Act Provided to school districts block grants to use for many other purposes than library materials. Beginning of the decline in federal support for school libraries.

Learning Theory and Instructional Media
Knowledge is acquired through the senses: seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling.	Teaching must address individual learners, their learning style preferences, and cultural backgrounds.
Gardner suggests that students may demonstrate particular aptitude in one or more of the following domains: Linguistic - reading, writing, speaking, listening Logical/Mathematical - working with numbers and abstract patterns Visual/Spatial - working with images, mind mapping, visualizing, drawing Musical - rhythm, melody, patterned sound, song, rap, dance Bodily/Kinesthetic - processing information through touch, movement, dramatics Interpersonal - sharing, cooperating, interviewing, relating Intrapersonal - working alone, self-paced instruction, individualized projects Naturalist/Ecological - awareness of the natural world and our relationship to it	Constructivist Classrooms Curricular activities rely heavily on primary sources of data and manipulative materials. Brain Research Since each brain is unique, teaching should be multifaceted to allow all students to express visual, tactile, emotional, and auditory preferences Connecting Theory and Practice: Is Theory Really of Any Use?
Web Links to Learning Theory The Theory Into Practice Database (TIP) 50 major theories of learning and instruction Learning Styles Funderstanding: Learning Theories

Selection Methods, Processes, and Criteria
Review Media Statistics Bowker's annual report of the number of books and other media reviewed by major reviewing Publications, 1999-2000. Current year statistics available in latest edition of the The Bowker Annual: Library and book Trade Almanac.
Course Textbook Van Orden, Phyllis J. & Bishop, Kay (2001). The Collection Program in Schools (3rd ed). Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited. Chapter 10 Criteria by Format discusses various media format advantages, disadvantages, selection criteria, implications for collection development, copyright considerations, and sources of information.	California Learning Resource Network (Example of a State selection Source) Educators, after extensive training in reviewing resources, provide a supplemental electronic learning resources database of recommended software, video, and Internet resources. The database is free and searchable. See review criteria and process. Search database after registering.
Evaluating Instructional Software The purpose of this paper is to present key features of various methods of evaluating software that yield useful information for instructional decisions.	GSLIS Multimedia Project (College Selection Project) Reviews of multimedia products are prepared by graduate students at the GSLIS (Graduate School of Library and Information Science), University of Texas at Austin. Browse reviews by subject areas or use keyword search feature. Free access to database.
Jefferson County Public Schools Software Reviews (Example of a Public School District Level Source)	Prince Georges County: Learning Technology Support Group Approved Software (Example of a Public School District Level Source)
Baltimore County Public Schools Instructional Media Catalogs (Library, P.E. Math, and Science) and Audiovisual Supply Catalog are lists of evaluated and recommended instructional resources and or supplies. The online catalogs are available on the BCPS Intranet for electronic acquisition and budget management. Users must be registered employees.
Seven Steps to Responsible Software Selection In the early 1980s, relatively inexpensive microcomputers came on the market. Teachers often selected software from catalogs, choosing almost any software that remotely touched on the subjects they were teaching. This guide gives 7 practical steps to effective software selection.	Software Evaluation for the Teacher of the English Language Arts. ERIC Digest

Review Resources
Asian Educational Media Service Locate media materials to use in learning and teaching about the cultures and peoples of Asia.Using the search tool above, one can locate descriptions and reviews of materials plus information about how to obtain them.	Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Division of American Library Association Notable Children's Recordings, 2002 Notable Children's Computer Software, 2002 Notable Children's Videos, 2002 Notable Children's Websites, 2002 Older Notables - 1996-2001
AV Review Database Contains reviews of media prior to 2001. New publication title is Educational Media Reviews Online.	Booklist Editors' Choice '01 American Library Association's Magazine Video and DVD Audio Audiobooks
Bowker's Bowker's free bibliographic service that allow searching for e-books The Software Encyclopedia Provides fully annotated listings for more than 32,400 new and established computer programs	Bowker's Words on Cassette Provides accurate data on more than 89,000 audiocassettes - including hard-to-find materials such as lectures, seminars, and old radio programs. Subject Index that arranges tapes in 136 subject categories AV Market Place An index of over 1,250 AV products and services
Published by Active Learning Associates, Inc., an educator owned business. Contains critical reviews of all interactive children's media, including educational and entertainment CD-ROMs, children's videogames, children's Internet sites and smart toys (toys with interactive electronic capabilities). As educational psychologists, our expertise is in evaluating the interaction between the child and the electronic experience. Contains 6,600 reviews as of Spring 2002. Subscription as well as access to free reviews. Subscription Information	Complete Sourcebook on Children's Interactive Media Includes interactive electronic activities intended for children up to 15 years of age, or up to 9th grade such as CD-ROMs, ROM chips, the Internet, or as a stand alone toy. A total of 6809 products were considered as as of December 31, 2001, designed for children of all ages (even babies) and covering nearly every subject. Of these, over 5700 were considered for this year's edition of the Sourcebook.   See a complete listing of all the titles in this year's edition, along with key trends! Subscription Information.
The CLCD Instructional Materials Database (CLIMD) contains reviews of teaching and instructional materials from the California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse, Eisenhower and ERIC Clearinghouses. Founded in 1993 by Marilyn Courtot, a trained librarian, the review staff has grown to more than 125. Children's Literature reviewers include book authors, librarians, writers and editors, teachers, children's literature specialists and physicians. Reviewer biographies are available on the website. Register for a 30-day free trial.	DocuSeek Film and Video Finder Search site for independent documentary, social issue, and educational videos.
Doucette Library of Teaching Resources Includes most student textbooks and teacher's guides authorized by Alberta Education for ECS to grade 12, as well as related support resources such as videos, kits, and children's literature. Search the database.	Educational Software Selector TESS From the Educational Products Information Exchange (EPIE), a nonprofit, unbiased organization often referred to as Consumers Union of Educational Software since 1967. TESS is the most comprehensive source of unbiased educational software information available for EDUCATORS, TEACHERS and PARENTS. Available for a fee on CD-ROM and the WWW. Includes 19,000 educational software programs from pre-school through college from over 1,300 software publishers. See sample page from online database. Subscription Information.
Educational Media Reviews Online is a database of video, DVD, and CD-ROM reviews on materials from major educational and documentary distributors. The reviews are written primarily by librarians and teaching faculty in institutions across the United States and Canada.	ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning. Located at The Ohio State University, ENC is funded through a contract with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement. ENC was established in 1992. Search database
U.S. Department of Education's outstanding professional bibliography of resources to aid in the selection and evaluation of digital digital resources, and film/video Internet sites, including trends. Also, included are useful links to Television Companion Materials (teacher's guides and lesson plans. Search ERIC Instructional Technology database for technology articles and bibliographies. See sample record retrieved on "Evaluating Online Educational Materials for Use in Instruction."	EvaluTech is a FREE searchable database that contains more than 7000 reviews of instructional materials recommended for classroom use in kindergarten through grade 12. Trained reviewers using extensive criteria evaluate these materials. Products evaluated include computer software, audio/visual materials, CD-ROM-based reference databases, websites, and print materials. Evaluation criteria include some correlation to state student academic standards. There is no fee for searching or for printing reviews. See evaluative criteria forms for various type of media. See information about EvauTech.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence FREE More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site. U.S. Department of Education (ED), on behalf of the FREE Working Group, was selected in 1997 by the Government Information Technology Services Board to support federal agencies that would partner with teachers to develop online learning materials and learning communities around agency resources. Resources include websites, videos, and other information resources produced by the U.S. government. Searchable database.	The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Consortium effort that provides educators with easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. Subject searchable database of high quality educational materials with browse feature to resources organized by subject or keywords.
Kids First: The Coalition for Quality Children's Media is a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991. Because we believe that violent and biased media profoundly affects children, their mission is to: 1) Teach children critical viewing skills and enable them to make their own good media choices. And 2) To increase the visibility and availability of quality children's programs. The Coalition is a voluntary collaboration of more than 6,000 media professionals, lobbyists, policymakers, child advocates, educators, parents and families. Searchable database of media.	- Books - Video - Reference Databases - CD-ROM - Library Management - Hardware - Presentation Tools
H.W. Wilson Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog A new section of recommended CD-ROM reference works is included in addition to 4,520 recommended fiction and nonfiction books. Sample pages. NOTE: H.W. Wilson Senior High School Catalog, 14 ed. The 14th ed. does include CD-ROM recommendations; however the new 15th edition does NOT. Sample pages.	H.W. Wilson Children's Catalog Includes recommended web resources and magazines. No CD-ROM recommendations are included in the 18th edition. Sample pages.
MultiMedia Schools Critiques multimedia technologies, but its mission is much wider: to report on, review, and discuss a wide array of electronic multiple media. This includes Internet resources, online databases, CD-ROMs and videodiscs, educational software, and the tools to make the technology work: computers, modems, printers, and other assorted hardware. Reviews not available online; however, feature articles and editorials are online. Subscription Information	National Information Center for Educational Media  Source of information for nonprint educational and training materials, including film, video, audio, CD-ROM, DVD, slides, filmstrips, kits and more. To search for media items through the NICEM website, you will need an assigned username and password which you can get by subscribing to the NICEM Audiovisual Database. You may also request a free trial of the database. Subscription Information
Online: Leading Magazine for Information Professionals ONLINE is written for information professionals and provides articles, product reviews, case studies, evaluation, and informed opinion about selecting, using, and managing electronic information products, plus industry and professional information about online database systems, CD-ROM, and the Internet. Reviews not available online; however, feature articles and editorials are online. Subscription Information	School Library Journal ALSC's 2002 Notable Videos, Recordings, Software, and Web Sites for Children Video of the Week Audio of the Week Reviews (coming soon) Use search engine. Type keyword "reviews" for articles with reviews of materials.
Science Books and Films Database The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fee-based database of reviews which contains almost 7,000 authoritative reviews of important science resources-books, videos, and software. Subscription Information	Educational Software Review  SuperKids reviews and rates educational software based on a carefully developed set of criteria. Reviews are written by teams that include educators, parents, and children from across the United States. Review teams include experts from Stanford, Harvard and Northwestern universities.
Purpose is to use film to introduce children to: major events of history; great achievements of civilization; extraordinary men and women who have shaped our world; works of music, dance, drama, literature and the visual arts; and ethical, social, and cultural issues facing children as they mature. Searchable database.	Tech Learning The Technology & Learning Network encompasses Technology & Learning magazine, tech learning.com, and Technology & Learning Events. These companion media offer online, conference, and print avenues for providing administrators, technology professionals, and teachers with comprehensive, relevant, and authoritative information on technology trends, new products, news, and funding sources for their technology programs. See recommended Curriculum Resource Links. Search database of curriculum product reviews.
Titlewave by Follett Searchable database of videos, CD-ROMs, and books with fulltext reviews or review citations from many leading professional journals. It contains over 110,000 book titles and over 30,000 audiovisual titles. Logon to establish a free account.	Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Division of American Library Association AudioBooks for Young Adults Selected DVD's and Videos
Video Librarian Online Offers nearly 200 critical reviews per issue. The Video Librarian Plus subscription offers a searchable database of over 12,000 full-text video reviews. Free access to a collection of movie, dvd, and videos from homepage. Subscription Information.	A leading environmental television production company co-founded by former Sierra Club President, Adam Werbach. The mission of the Video Project and Act Now Productions is to entertain and inform by pursuing new ways of creating and distributing video about the future of the planet, for those who will live in that future. The Video Project has programs for all ages, including Oscar and Emmy award-winners from over 270 independent filmmakers worldwide.

Selection Tools Bibliographies and Guides
Video Reference Tools and Selection Aids: A Highly Selective List University of California Berkeley	Review Resources (go to to get some of these resources to make links to
Microcomputer Courseware Evaluation Sources. ERIC Digest	Using Educational Films
Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources	OnLINE: Baltimore County Public Schools Links to review resources.

Electronic Books

Cognitive Constructivism: Information Banks: Electronic Books

Dresang, Eliza. (2002) Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age. Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson. Offers a conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating books that differ sharply from traditional expectations and satisfy the appetites of savvy net-generation readers. Printed version includes an in-depth analyses of individual titles and an evaluation guide. Website has examples of digital books.