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Article: From musty old library to 21st-century program.(The Media Center)
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- Multimedia & Internet@Schools
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- January 1, 2004
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CONTRARY to popular belief, musty libraries haven't disappeared; they are there, waiting for media specialists who love challenge and change.
Perhaps you've been hired to upgrade a 1950s-era school library into a media center and program for the 21st century! A media specialist who worked in a rural Southern school district wrote to me that there were no computers in the media center or any of the classrooms there. With the exception of an automation system, an elementary media center I visited last spring could have been the '60s-era library I inherited more than 30 years ago. Those places still exist, even in schools with state-of-the-art technology and a ...