Abstract
A little more than half a century after the first School Library Standards had been set, the Association of American School Librarians with the co-editorship of the Association for Educational Communication and Technology revised the Standards again in 1975 as “Media Programs: District and School”. It presents the theoretical base by which the school library media program can be treated as a part of the educational program and a school librarian as an equal partner of a teacher in the instructional process. In these phenomenal developments, Federal funds based on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the development of educational technology have been an impetus to transform a school library and its program to a media center and media program. Today, the school library media program functions as a component of a national network which NCLIS endorses. It can be said that American school librarianship has responded to the information needs of children and youth and the nation, just as the other branches of librarianship have.
