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Wilkes This des-criptiae,exploratory study of building-Ieoelschool library media centersbelongingto at least one rnultistate,maliltype llbrary network was dcsignedto inaestigatetha lmpaA of netuorks on collectionsand technical he concepts of formal networking tions about networkingand schoollibrary media programsappeared. Examples in- clude CatherineMtilphy's studyoi online public accesscatalogs (f987); Barbara Immroth'son tle role of schoolJevelpro- grams in the Colorado Regional Service Librarians and others 1975). A recent en- System(1980); H. ThomasWalker's docu- dorsement ofthe concepts is found in the mentationof the useof interlibraryloan by 1988__publicanon, Information power: administrators, teachers, and itudends Guidelines for school library media pro- (1982);and Ann CarlsonWeeks'study of grams (Amencan Association of School school library media specialists'attitudes Librarians 1988), which recommends the provision of access to resources outside searchRetreat sponsoredby the Research Committeeoftie AmericanAssociation of through a communication mechanism, School Librarians (Woolls 1990). In re- forms a systemto accomplisha specifted viewingthe researchliterature about cata- goar. loging,collections, and networks,Murphy During the 1980sa numberof disserta- (1990), Callison (1990), and Immroth 8/ LRTS . 37(1) c Van OrdenandWlkes (1990) agree that information on the im- and the questionnaire, was sent to the 754 pact of ndtworking on building-level media individuals identi{ied by the districtJevel programs across the country is not readily personnel. During the mailingprocess the available. iesearchers disc6vered td individuals Another body of literature has de- listed for more than one school, and these scribed the operations and impact of net- individuals were eliminated from the worhng within speciftc systems. One of studv. An interim reminder letter and a the most widely discussed programs is thir<i mailing of a cover letter and ques- Access Pennsylvania, which has served as tionnaire we-resent to the people who had a model for other states (Epler and Tuzin- not responded prior to December 1, 1990. sh l99I; Epler 1988; Pennsyloania online of lhe 579 individuals assumed to be 1985; and Epler and Cassel 1987). full-time buildingJevel school library The impact of networhng on catalog- media persoryrel, 361 individuals re- lng,, classification, and processing prac- sponded, resulting in a response rate of tices; interlibrary loan patterns; and re- 62.3 percent. In these responses the re- source sharing for districtlevel media searchers identified 108 additional in- programs was investigatedby the autlors (Van Orden and Wilkes 1989). Respon- dentsfrom fody-nineschool districts iden- tilied the benefitsthey werereceMng and offered advicefor thoseconsidering such participation. worhng activities, which resulted in 159 responJes from individuals with network- THE STUDY ing actMties in schools at the building The purposeof this exploratory,descrip- level. This group formed the basis for the tive follow-up study was to gain insight study. about the experiencesof buildingJevel mediaspecialists in the schooldistricts par- CHARAcrERrsrIcs oF TIIE the earlier study.District-level ticipating in RrspoNnuNrs respond6ntsfrom the previousstudy were askedto providenames of full-time school Responsesfrom the study reveal that library media specialistsat the building acrossthe country,in rural, suburban,and level in their district. Thirty-sixof49 dis- urban settings,school library me&a spe- trictlevel personnelresponded; of these cidists are providing accessto resources 36, one did not have a list of personnel throughthe useof networkingand interli- availableand another called to report that brary"loatts.Networks accesiedby these only the district mediacenter participated schoolsinclude: in networking. The 34 districts repre- Access Pennsylvania sentedin the study range in size from a AMIGOS singleschool to more than 200 schools. Bibliographic Center for Research (BCR) Signilicantproblems occurred with the Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS) identilicationoT full-time mediaspecialists Online Computer Library Center, Inc. serving only one school.The district-level (ocLc) personnelidentifted 754 individuals.The Illinois Library and Information Network iddress information provided did not in- (ILLINET) clude level of school,full-time status,or Indiana CooperativeLibrary Services networkaffiliation. Thus, itwas impossible Network (INCOLSA) to draw a representativesample from the Michigan Library Consortium(MLC) namesprovided, so all personsnamed on WesternLibrary NeMork (WLN) the list were surveved. Some of the state networks listed pro- The investigati'onfollowed the design vide access to multistate, multitlpe net- recommendedby Dillman (1978).The ini- works. A number of the respondents also tial n-railing,which includeda crcverletter participate in district-wide, multicounty, LRTS o 37(l) . SchoolLibrary Media Centersand Networles /9 and local networla, The local networks in- The schoolswere representedin the clude avariety ofarrangemenb: only schools external networks bv th-'sdistrict media within the *ini"t (Sgl] district schools and local publiclibraries (20); onlyschools within an intermediate district (13); district schools, local public, and academic libraries (ll); dis- trict schools, local private schools, and local public and academic libraries (ll); district schmls, localprivateschools, and localpublic