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>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:12:18 -0500
>From: "David Pankratz" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: #5786 Lab Design Kit and IALL Management Manual

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(This is a repeat posting in a different format. Worth reading!)


IALL (International Association for Language Learning Technology) offers a variety of publications to educators and media center directors. Two very important publications are the IALL Lab Design Kit and the IALL Management Manual. Those products are now being revised, and your help is needed!

These very practical publications consist of modules in various content areas. Some interesting changes will be seen in the new versions. IALL is now looking for writers to revise and in some cases rewrite the modules. Writers should be familiar with the organization, have experience in the particular content area, and consider themselves good writers. Writers  will also need to be very responsive in terms of sticking to due dates for writing, revising,  etc. 

If you are interested in revising/writing a module in either publication, and you feel qualified to do so, please contact the editor directly-either Mike Ledgerwood or Kathleen Ford, depending on the publication. In your inquiry, please give a short explanation of your qualifications and why you would like to contribute to this project, and be sure to specify which module you are interested in revising/writing. Please send your application as soon as possible, but no later than November 15th. The names of the proposed modules, as well as the editors' email addresses, appear below.


IALL Lab Design Kit
Editor: Mikle Ledgerwood, Tenured Professor of French and Technology and Education, Director of the Language Learning and Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Ron Bergman, Associate Editor
Kathleen Ford, Associate Editor

Introduction: The editor will do an overview of the volume and discuss past volumes as well as the philosophy and intent of the revised work... 

Module One:  Needs Analysis.
This volume will include a discussion of the types of questions and answers that will be raised in the creation of a new facility or renovation of an existing facility...

Module Two: Basic Elements of Space and Design.
This module will include descriptions of types of space used by Language Centers/Labs, types of labs, types of furniture, types of equipment ...

Module Three: Special Considerations in Space and Design--Physical Aspects and Layouts
This module will treat the variety of specific equipment and configurations that designers need to consider... (networking, electrical, ADA, examples of specific lab layouts, etc. )


Module Four: Special Considerations in Space and Design-Different Usages
Beyond the Basic Lab or Labs. .. (studios, study spaces, development spaces, teaching labs, classrooms, wireless labs, etc.)

Module Five: Turnkey Labs.
In this module labs available from the major vendors such as Tandberg, Sony, and ASC will be treated... 

Module Six: Variations on a Theme: Different Centers for Different Needs.
This module will take up the issues of the first module and present different centers that address specific needs...(including model secondary school lab, small college lab, research University center, separate non-North American labs)

Module Seven: The Virtual Language Center and the Future.  
This will be a discussion of why Language Centers need to be around in the future..
 
Module Eight: Price Lists. 
 ...examples of recent prices their Centers were charged for items mentioned in this kit...  Anonymity can be guaranteed for private institutions participating in this module.

Finally, this kit will include (will have in common with the IALL Management Manual) a bibliography with articles, journals, listservs, websites, etc, a list of consultants (perhaps just a link to the IALL web page of consultants) and a glossary.  All authors will be expected to contribute a list of ten to twenty terms to be included in the glossary.


New IALL Management Manual
Editor: Kathleen Ford, Manager of the Media Lab, University of California at Los Angeles
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Mike Ledgerwood, Associate Editor

1. Media Center Management: An Overview
The name game: What is a media center? * What do media center managers do? * What are the functions of a media center? * How does media relate to teaching learning, and research?

2. Management Roles, Styles, and Philosophies
The many and varied roles of a media center manager * Recognizing and developing your managerial traits * Understanding your administrative organization * Establishing policies and procedures * Effective decision making

3. Strategic Planning for Media Center Programs and Services
Who should be involved in planning? * Conducting environmental scans * Looking at the media center's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats * Setting strategic direction * Developing or updating the mission, vision, and values statements * Action planning * Writing and communicating the plan * Monitoring, evaluating, and deviating from the plan

4. Staffing the Media Center: Finding and Keeping Excellent Employees
Recruiting * Interviewing techniques * Orientation and training * Functional areas of responsibility * Performance review * Disciplinary action
[Examples for this section: job descriptions; pay scales; employment applications; interview questions; performance review forms; record of disciplinary action; etc.]

5. Managing Media Equipment
Types of equipment distribution operations * Writing equipment specifications * Evaluating equipment * Technical processes (e.g., inventory) * Writing user-friendly instructions * Policies and procedures for scheduling and circulating equipment * Maintaining equipment * Developing an equipment replacement plan

6. Managing Media Materials
Determining collection needs * Developing an acquisition strategy * Locating resources * Evaluating materials * Technical processes (e.g., cataloging, labeling, barcoding) * Integrating media materials and the curricula * Circulation procedures * Maintaining the collection

7. Copyright
What is a copyright? * What works are governed by copyright? * What is a work in the public domain? * What is fair use? * When is copying allowed by fair use provisions of the law? * How to minimize the liability risks for the media center * How and from whom to request permission to copy * How to protect works you create

8. Computers and the Media Center
Managing technological change * Purchasing hardware, licensing software * Building networks * Providing computing services * Administrative computing applications

9. Managing the Media Center Budget
Needs assessment * Funding sources * Budgeting systems * Allocation systems * Accounting systems * Developing a budget * Monitoring the budget

10. Promoting the Media Center
Communication within the media center (e.g., continuing education, staff meetings) * Political relations * Building cooperative relationships with other campus units (e.g., libraries, computer labs, dormitories, distance learning centers) * Developing constructive client relationships * Handling complaints * Strategies for promoting media center programs and services

11. Evaluating Programs and Services
Why evaluate the media center? * What should be evaluated? When? By whom? * Communicating and using evaluation results

12. Resources for the Profession
IALL Management Manual/Lab Design Kit glossary * Selected bibliography * Online references (e.g., journals, listservs, websites) * Professional organizations and associations
[This section to be largely compiled by the authors of the previous sections.]

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Thank you for your consideration--your expertise and contribution are needed! If you have any questions, please contact either of the editors or David Pankratz, IALL President-Elect, at [log in to unmask]