Hello Laura, good luck with your meeting tomorrow.
Lick-Wilmerding High School Library
FTE 460
Book Collection 25,000
Ebook collection 80,000
(to supplement the CURATED collection by the library and faculty)
Books purchased annually (estimate) 500 added to the permanent collection
Lissa Crider, Librarian
From: baisl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:baisl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Laura Mauler
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 2:02 PM
To: baisl
Subject: [baisl] Collection Size / Going Bookless
Will anyone please share the total number of books in their collection, and if
possible their total number of enrolled students?
I am facing an administration-instigated overhaul of the library into a
learning commons/makerspace, and the initial renderings have us going bookless.
I need to make the case for keeping a robust and healthy print collection, not
just a few token books for themed displays (the designers' actual suggestion);
I'm hoping to use the size of your collections to support my case.
We are meeting on this tomorrow morning, so your data is needed ASAP!
Thank you in advance for helping me fight for our print collection!
Laura Mauler, MLIS
Librarian
Drew School
2901 California Street
San Francisco CA 94115
415.430.3718 (direct)
