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Changing Role Of Senior Administrators, Kathleen Delong, Julie A. Garrison, Marianne Ryan
Changing Role Of Senior Administrators, Kathleen Delong, Julie A. Garrison, Marianne Ryan
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In alignment with ARL’s strategic focus Transforming Research Libraries, designed to articulate, promote, and facilitate new and expanding roles for ARL libraries that enable and enrich the transformations affecting research and research-intensive education, this study has probed the nature of administrative positions that support accomplishing these objectives. The ongoing evolution within these organizations and the roles of those who work in them is mirrored in the administrative structure of the academic library. Two decades ago, it was largely the library director who managed the organization, perhaps with assistance from an associate in public and technical services, or from a single …
From Collections To Laboratories To Centers: Development Of The Curriculum Materials Collections Or Center To 1940, Rita Kohrman
From Collections To Laboratories To Centers: Development Of The Curriculum Materials Collections Or Center To 1940, Rita Kohrman
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The need for curriculum materials collections/centers is evident with the study of the development of education practices in the United States. "Keeping-school" was viewed with such disdain that anyone without training was believed to be able to teach - "Any farmer can teach" (Bowen, 1887, p. 14). As education became more important to the growth of the nation and its citizens, teacher preparation changed from mimicking how one was taught to being viewed as a science and requiring its own laboratories similar to science and medical laboratories.