Hi all - This may be too late (I just read the whole digest), but fwiw:
College Prep is grades 9-12, 362 students, and the library holdings include
19 databases, 3,948 e-books, and a little over 17,000 print copies. We're
just starting to lean on the e-book reference works over the print
versions, and we have some workshops to do to get the students really using
the e-books. We don't have circulating e-books for many, many reasons, some
of which have been touched on by others:
"Look at recent reports that the sale of ebooks is going down, and that
reading on devices affects comprehension, especially for younger children.
...
Health issues:
e-readers have come a long way, but is *only* reading online negative for
one's health? (sight, especially).
--
Elsa Ouvrard-Prettol
,
Natomas Charter School" [My note: It's definitely detrimental, per many
current studies.]
We have a 1:1 laptop program, so you'd think that would make e-book access
easy, right? NOT. As you know, publisher permissions change, and titles can
become unavailable very quickly. I won't even go into the issues involved
in collection development solely for e-resources.
Eliminating print resources does not just make space, and it doesn't affect
just the library - it affects everyone who uses those resources, or who
teaches students how to do research. So I also hope your teachers and other
admin have come alongside you to make it clear that going bookless does not
equal progress. It's not that simple.
Rant over - thanks for reading. Onward!!
Cheers,
Peggie Hamilton
Library/Textbook Services
The College Preparatory School
Oakland, California
510-420-2329
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:09 PM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager <
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baisl Digest Mon, 12 Oct 2015 Volume: 02 Issue: 140
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From: Laura Mauler <lauramauler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:02:21 -0700
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)
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