The Historical Shift of American School Library Standards

미국 학교도서관 기준의 변천

  • Kim Hyo-Jeong (Dept. of Library and Information Science, Chung Ang University)
  • 김효정 (중앙대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Published : 1995.06.01

Abstract

The school library standards. a guideline encouraging the reasonable library administration for school education that began with early quantity in 1920, has been changed as an information power in 1988 after 7th revision. The school library is highlighted as a gear of education process and the center of education change. The major summary is as follows: First. the name of librarian has been changed from teacher's librarian to school library media specialist that executes as a leader for participating in plan. performance and development of instruction. Second. the type of material has been changed from book to electronic media. Also, the number of book per capital has been increased from 6-8(1920) to 23-28(1988) Finally, the function of school library has been changed from space service into proactive service which is playing the role of the heart of school education process based on information skill.

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