Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

AV tips in the Santa Monica high school lihrary. Recently, going a step further, we have begun to integrate information about audiovisual materials in the card catalogs in our Hbraries. We have a collection of over 1.100 films in our instructional materials center. When new films are added to this collection we purchase Library of Congress catalog cards in sets for them. A set of cards is prepared for each school and sent out when the film is ready for circulation. In the past these cards have been filed separately, sometimes in the teachers' workroom and sometimes in the principal's office, and have formed an independent index to the films in our central collection. In addition, of course, we issue a catalog of all audiovisual materials, including films and filmstrips and recordings. But the card file is always up to date— as the catalog can rarely be. Now we have begun to file these film cards in the card catalog in the library. That is, cards for books and films are filed together in one alphabet. In some of our schools we have flagged the film cards and in others we have stamped them, to show that these materials are in the central office rather than the school library. So now when students or teachers go to the catalog to look up material on chemistry or the Renaissance, they will find films listed as well as books. The next step will be to do the same thing with recordings and filmstrips. In our high schools the music department has a collection of records which could be used in history and social studies classes or even in foreign language and English classes. We have obtained permission from the music coordinator to list these materials in the card catalog in the library. He has also agreed to let us list the recordings which he has in his office— and it is a rather large collection— in the library catalog. In the future. Library of Congress catalog cards will be purchased for records in the instructional materials center and supplied to schools, just as we now supply them with cards for films. Again, colored flags or a location stamp will be used to show that these materials are housed outside the library. Our library of recordings, even' when all three colleotions are combined, is small. If we are to meet the demands which we hope will be made on it, we must enlarge it, but within the hmits of our present budget. So one of our high school librarians, who has had some commercial broadcasting experience, has offered to ask some of the local stations if they would give us their recordings after they are through with them. If he is successful we will be able to enrich our collection, adding tape as well as disc recordings to it, both of which will be listed in the library catalog. Bacon Urged Greater Use Of Senses . . (Contimted from page 315) home economics as sources of experimentation with new types of grains and new strains of wheat. Bacon was very much interested in the study of psychology and proposed that psychology be taught as a laboratory subject. Laboratories utilizing instruments related to the senses, for example sound, sight, and smell, were included by Bacon to delude human senses in order to understand how persons get sense impressions. Bacon's concern for the utilization of audiovisual materials in his proposed school system was reflected in the placement of the audiovisual department under the direction of the highest autliority in the school administration. The function of this office was not only to supervise audiovisual materials but also to develop new materials and methods. Bacon has enlarged upon a Utopian theme in the New Atlantis. This theme states in effect that the ears are not the only means or the best means of learning. He felt that the other senses of sight, taste and touch must be utilized to make instruction effective, and in the New Atlantis— his position was emphasized that learning must itilize laboratories, field trips, and other sources of audiovisual materials and methods. Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — June, 1962 317