Acquiring and Organizing Curriculum Materials addresses two areas of need in a curriculum materials center-where to find curriculum materials for acquisition and how to organize these materials for efficient and effective access once they are acquired.
This book brings together, in one convenient source, many companies, associations, projects, and government agencies that publish, produce, and distribute curriculum materials such as curriculum guides, textbooks, teaching activities books, and AV media/instructional materials. Lare has also included a list of World Wide Web sites and links that provide teaching activities and lesson plans, curriculum guides and standards, and curriculum resource links which provide content to support lesson plans. Once the materials are acquired, various shelving options and classification schemes are presented so that informed decisions can be made regarding how to organize the various collections. A useful resource for curriculum materials librarians in academic libraries, school library media specialists, public librarians responsible for education collections, and for library and information science courses in collection development and organization.