Budget+and+Selection

Scenarios of the "no plan" library:
 * Budget** - Have a plan!
 * 1) Teacher A comes in with a $13 000 request from one publisher
 * 2) Teacher B requests an expensive, but not really relevant resource.
 * 3) Your money is spent by December, but there are still needs.

Budget Plan
**//Establishing Categories//** **BALANCING IT ALL!** **Sample Guidelines** - (Mashup of the work of Valenza, Dickson, and Walter)
 * Accountability
 * Fairness/equality in collection development
 * Mechanism to secure budget dollars
 * //Keeping Track //**
 * Excel Spreadsheet
 * Ledger Style

**//Budget Categories://** 40% Curriculum 20% Recreational Reading 10% Replacement 10% Focus area for school goals/professional materials 10% Multimedia 10% Library supplies // Example from Hoffman - // K - 2: 79 students 64% of population Gr. 3 - 4: 45 students 36% of population LANGENBURG HIGH & HOFFMAN (old)
 * // Student Body Composition: //**
 * Sample Plans **
 * [|Details]
 * [[file:gssdlibraries/budget2008.pdf|Download]]
 * 69 KB

Melville Comprehensive
 * ==Selection Policy and Criteria==
 * //Connections: Policy and Guidelines for School Libraries in Saskatchewan (2008)//

// Good Spirit School Division Selection Policy //

ADDITIONAL SELECTION CRITERIA
 * Relevance to the curriculum
 * Age appropriateness for intended audience
 * Quality and durability of format
 * Accuracy and currency of information
 * Credibility, reputation, and signficance of author, producer, publisher
 * Artistic/literary quality
 * Freedom from bias and stereotypes
 * Accurate portrayals of Indian, Metis and Inuit peoples ||
 * == Acquisitions ==

A. Canadian Materials
==== B. Teacher-librarian: the journal for school library professionals ==== ==== C. School Libraries in Canada ====

III Full Text Online Databases
==== A. Access the following online without purchasing a subscription ====

====B. Novelist and Novelist K-8 ====