Resumen de Some Notes and Comments on International Development of Resource Centres
Resource centres and resource based learning are of widespread and current concern within education. Because of the often glamorous nature of resource provision it is an aspect of modern development that has attracted the lime‐light and the concomitant “ bandwagoners.” In practice resource‐based learning and the various forms of centres and libraries devised to service and support this mode of education is without a core of uniformity. There is even a problem of language use in this field since we do not have universally accepted concepts. Development is haphazard on the large scale even though it may be based solidly on local needs and objectives.
In 1974 UNESCO gathered together a working group to examine strategies for the conversion of libraries into media centres in secondary education. The questions raised by this group and the reports submitted to it could possibly provide a guide‐line for future development. Resource centres, seen in the wider context of educational development, are a relatively recent innovation and have proved to be of great value. They are also fraught with problems which should be considered carefully before seizing upon the idea as a solution to undefined educational difficulties.
