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| Language: | en |
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2005
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ711278 |
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- State-Funded Informational Databases: You May Lose Them Even if You Use Them! Bell, Mary Ann Foreign Countries Web Sites Government Libraries Electronic Libraries Elementary Secondary Education Databases State Programs School Libraries Librarians Educational Finance State-funded informational databases are a boon to students, teachers, and teacher-librarians, but as states struggle with budgets, funding for these resources is endangered survey results on the status of databases in all fifty states along with suggestions for keeping the databases or dealing with their absence follow. Today's students and teachers need authoritative, current sources of information for research and learning. Informational databases are invaluable resources and must be made available to all students regardless of the size or affluence of their schools and districts. Prior to the 2003-2004 school year, Texas teacher-librarians were proud to be part of an initiative that provided K-12 students such access. In exchange for uploading library collections to a state union catalog and agreeing to participate in interlibrary loan, Texas teacher-librarians could join a consortium called Texas Library Connection, or TLC, and thus have access to databases including the Gale offerings, Encyclopedia Britannica, and others. Students could log on at home as well as at school.