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School
Library
Collection Development
Needs
Funding
Budgeting
Selection
Ordering
Weeding
Resources
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Resources and materials to
support reading motivational projects integrated into
the curriculum and special activities for events (e.g.
National Library Week, Children’s Book Week, I Love to
Read Week, Kentucky Bluegrass Award).
* Specialized materials and
resources to support new interdisciplinary/thematic
units of study in the classroom.
* Picture books to support
early childhood/primary literacy programs.
* Reference books to support
new curriculum topics - needs to be updated annually.
* Fiction and nonfiction
books to support Accelerated Reader and other literacy
focused programs.
Computers/Technology
*
Computers to support
access to the online catalog for student and staff
searching of the library database - needs to be upgraded
annually.
* Computers to support
student access to the Internet, Kentucky Commonwealth
Virtual Library, and other online resources - needs to
be upgraded annually.
* Computers for
administrative use (e.g. Check-out, Check-in of
materials, updating library database, inventory process,
and library online reporting - needs to be upgraded
annually.
* Computers for student
processing, storing and retrieving electronic
information using a word-processing program - needs to
be upgraded annually.
* Software (e.g. Hyperstudio)
to support student projects involving multimedia
presentations.
Equipment/Furnishings
*
Equipment (e.g. digital
camera) to support student projects and learning
activities involving video presentations.
* Equipment (e.g. scanner)
to support student projects involving visual components.
* Equipment for support
student daily news program (e.g. camcorder and VCR).
* Equipment to support
closed-circuit video distribution system for entire
school (e.g. VCR’s in the classrooms, upgrading media
equipment at head of system, usually in the media
center).
* Shelving/storage to house
new media formats (e.g. DVD, laserdiscs) and other materials.
Tools
to help budget
*
Every
year, in the March issue, SLJ calculates the average
prices for books for this year and the previous 2
years.
SLJ's
Average Book Prices 2008
* Financial
Spreadsheets (Book Fair Money, Paid Books, and other money.) MS
EXCEL 95 Spreadsheet. Save this locally and use
it to account for deposits and
expenditures. To save this
locally, right mouse click directly on the 'financial
spreadsheet hyperlink'; choose 'save target as'. Then choose the location on your hard drive or floppy diskette and
click on save. This may be opened from your saved location and
tailored for your school. To view it, click cancel when
asked for an id/password.
* Budget
Formula - A spreadsheet tool to assist in planning your
budget with SCIF coded funds. It can be saved locally,
edited and input data manipulated. Fill in only the boxes
in yellow and look for total results to appear. Use this
with "what if" scenarios as well as the "what
is" scenario.
SELECTING New Materials
* Many schools subscribe to
printed review sources such as School
Library Journal, Wilson
Catalogs (Children's, Middle and Junior High School, Senior High
School). For selection purposes, you may ask to borrow issues of School
Library Journal or Booklist. Recommendations from students, teachers, and parents are
important considerations for purchase as well.
* A cumulative list of books
are often kept on a Book
Order Spreadsheet You can save
this to a local drive by right clicking the hyperlink and choosing "save
target as". After saving it and using the saved version, you will
note that when your book selections are filled in, you can print the book
list, send it to Media Services. Don't forget to add the PO number
from the PO you generate in MUNIS to this book list.
* Library Media Specialists
often review items at Workshops, meetings, and
conferences (AASL, KSMA, CKMSA, U of K McConnell Literature.
* Fifty
Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know - titles listed by
level from preschool through age 12. List is compiled by
Compiled by Ginny Moore Kruse and Kathleen T. Horning; Cooperative
Children's Book Center; School of Education; University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
* Children's
Picture Book Database at Miami University -Abstracts of
over 45,000 children's picture books with search capabilities for over
950 keywords, including topics, concepts, and skills which describe
each book.
* ACQWeb's Directory of Book
Reviews on the Web
* ALA
Resources
* Evalutech - a
database of recommended instructional materials for use in K-12
settings.
* Teen
Reads. Com
* Reader's
Robot
* The
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
* Bookpage
MAKING
AN ORDER for a FCPS School Library
*
Creating
an order list may be done online and printed to
attach to a purchase order
(an alternative may be to Book
Order Spreadsheet)
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TITLEWAVE is Follett's catalog of over 85,000
book and CD-ROM titles. With TITLEWAVE Internet Edition, you can create
collection development lists, search for individual titles, and obtain the
printed results to attach to Purchase Orders.
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School
Select™
is Baker
& Taylor's easy to use, powerful searching tool. Use The Collection
Connection™ to search B&T's database of over 63,000 book titles You may obtain printed results
to attach to Purchase Orders.
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IPage
is Ingram's online catalog whereby lists of books
for purchase can be generated.
* After
selecting items to purchase and generating an
attached list where necessary, a purchase order must be generated
to one of the FCPS
Board Approved Vendors for
AudioVisual
Materials,
Library Books/PreBound
Books,
Magazines,
and
Library
Supplies, Office Supplies and Teaching Suppies. Book Binding is no
longer under FCPS bid. Some books with one
company listed are under state price contract.
* Newspaper
Prices for this school year for The
Courier Journal and The Lexington
Herald Leader are listed for daily and weekends.
* If one of the approved vendors cannot supply the resources you want, you may purchase from any
vendor who is already found in the MUNIS system.
* Special
instructions for generating library purchase order
are important to follow so that you will receive your
items in a timely manner. See MUNIS
POs for Library orders for a guide. If you need to know balances on any
of the 0159 Library accounts for your school, you
may contact Karen Goocey for this information.
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