Acquiring and Organizing Curriculum Materials Free

School and college librarians often find that curriculum‐related materials are not cited in mainstream sources like Books in Print and that such materials are on the Internet. Gary Lare is head of the Curriculum Resources Center at the University of Cincinnati, and concentrates his attention on the US situation and on curriculum materials centers where, above all, textbooks and instructional media are acquired and organized. The information here is exclusively American and operates within a highly specialized area of American information work, and so it is of use mainly to professionals there and in that field. However, two aspects of the work give it a broader application. First, there are some useful examples and discussion of organizing materials for use and access (for example, Dewey and Library of Congress classification and call numbers, with some 10 to 15 pages of examples), and these have transferability to school (secondary level in the UK) and college libraries, despite their focus. Second, some useful chapters on Internet (World Wide Web) materials with URLs: state education departments, educational standards, ERIC Clearinghouses, textbook publishers on the WWW, Internet‐teaching activities (such as Ocean Environment Classroom Activities, Galileo science lessons, Project Athena on astronomy), others arranged by discipline, and teacher sites. They are all geared specifically for US school teacher‐training use. This is a work of limited value outside the American educational context, and listings are not evaluative (comparison here might be made with Lyn Martin’s The Challenge of Internet Literacy, The Haworth Press, 1997, which is rather better in this respect).