Library Media Services in the Cache County School District: Recommendations of the Library Media Task Force

This report presents a proposal made by a Utah task force appointed to establish a plan for a district school library media program to best serve the students and staff of that district. The introductory section discusses the priorities on which the proposal focuses, the philosophy of education in a school library media center, and the aims, purposes, and objectives of the school library media centers. Job descriptions at the district, elementary, and secondary levels are provided in the second section. A third section outlines program development--both current and at a five-year interval--and includes discussions of management and maintenance procedures in the school library media centers, professional training and development of media specialists, and district level support meetings. The fourth section is devoted to program components, e.g., media production services, public information, program evaluation, networking, budgeting, selection and purchasing of non-human resources, teaching responsibilities of the media specialist, and the media specialist's responsibility for information retrieval skills curriculum and participation in the formulation of the total school curriculum. (CGD)