“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Whoever said it, it could not have been truer of Colorado’s school library media centers (LMCs) in 1996. The 1995-96 school year was another year of dramatic changes associated with the information superhighway, but it was also the second year in a row of alarming LMC staff cuts.
Following is a brief summary of the good news and the bad news about LMCs:
The Good News
- School libraries really have become multimedia information centers. Almost 28,000 CD-ROM products are available via the state’s LMCs—an increase of more than three and a half times since 1994. Video collections have almost doubled in size during the same period.
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