School Libraries and Resource Centres = Bibliotheques scolaires et centres de documentation.

This book, in French and English, addresses how the school library of the future will be designed and what role it will play as a school facility within the educational system and in society as a whole. The following papers are included: (1) "Issues" (John Mayfield); (2) "Designing Schools for the Information Society: Libraries and Resource Centres"; (3) "Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and the Quality of Learning: An International OECD/CERI Study" (Edwyn O. James); (4) "Documentation and Information Centres (CDI) and New Technologies in France" (Guy Pouzard); (5) "Regional Policy for the Development of Information and Communications Technologies in Upper Secondary Education in Ile-de-France" (Jacques Foucher); (6) "The School Library--An Endangered Species or the Heart of the Community?" (Tim Sandercock); (7) "The Learning, Information and Communication Centre in Austrian Secondary Schools" (Manfred Hinum and Johanna Hladej); (8) "The Alford Information and Technology Centre at Aberdeenshire in Scotland" (Clive Marsden); (9) "The Multimedia Centre in the Institut Notre-Dame des Champs, Brussels" (Jean-Marie Moonen); (10) "Resource Centres in the Tuscany Region" (Paolo Benesperi); and (11) "Five Examples of School Resource Centres in Portugal: The School 2001 Project in Pendao, Portugal" (Isabel Mendinhos). (Contains 401 references.) (MES)