A few years ago ALA library association recommended 27 books per student.
Anyone know if they have changed their books per student?
Debra
Debra Cardone
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Hamlin School
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From: Elsa Ouvrard-Prettol
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Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 2:19 PM
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Subject: [baisl] Re: Collection goal for your school population
Ann,
As stated on p34 of the document I linked to:
"The numbers represent the minimum that should be available for students.
Resources include print and digital materials (e.g., databases, audiobooks,
e-books) that align with the curriculum and are accessible to students with
various cognitive or language needs."
They list:
-at least 2 online subscription databases
-15 print magazines at the HS level, in addition to those available
electronically
-28 books per students
-adding 1 book per 2 students at the HS level, every year
-and at least 2/3 of the collection is less than 15 years old.
So the 28 books per students can be print, digital and audiobooks.
But year... I have an extremely small collection that is far below those
standards. :( I just keep going and try to do what I can!
Thank you,
Elsa Ouvrard-Prettol
Natomas Charter School
Sacramento, CA
Library and Media Instructor
Grades 6-12
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On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Cathy Rettberg
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It's an interesting question - will standards be updated to include digital
books? Purchasing ebrary effectively quadrupled the size of my collection;
JSTOR and Gale add to that collection further, and my Overdrive collection is
slowly growing. somehow it doesn't feel the same as a print collection, but I
guess it should... It would be helpful to know if there is current thinking
about this - I think I will put the question out to LM_NET.
Cathy
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On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Weber, Ann
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Thanks, Elsa. I could imagine 17 books per student for an elementary school,
but it doesn't seem reasonable for a high school with a large number of
subscriptions to digital content.
Ann
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Subject: [baisl] Re: Collection goal for your school population
Ann,
The DOE sets a standard
<http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/librarystandards.pdf> of 28 books per
student (p34). And I cannot for the life of me remember where I found this
number, but I have read, just within the last couple of years, that the average
CA elementary school library has 17 books per students.
Thank you,
Elsa Ouvrard-Prettol
Natomas Charter School
Sacramento, CA
Library and Media Instructor
Grades 6-12
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On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Weber, Ann
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Does anyone have an idea or a source to set a goal for how many items your
school library should have in the collection per student? I just did a
collection analysis at Follett, and the collection goal is variable. You, the
librarian can set the goal. Ours was set years ago at 20 items per student.
We now have about 10 per student. With digital resources, I think the number
should be less than it used to be, but don't know where to set it. In
Follett's analysis, the e-books in the Gale Virtual Reference Library aren't
counted, as the catalog says we have no copies.
Thanks for any wisdom you can share,
Ann
Ann Weber
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Bellarmine College Preparatory
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