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If you haven't seen it, this year's SLJ Online editorial=20
about average book prices offers a bit more than just=20
dollar-and-cents comparisons.

        http://www.bookwire.com/SLJ/slj-editorial.article$7798

For example, Editor Lillian Gerhardt writes, "The per pupil
allocation for library books would have had to rise by about 30=A2
per pupil every year for the last 10 years -- just to run in place.
School Library Journal's national survey of expenditures for all=20
resources in school libraries for fiscal year 1995-1996 (SLJ, October
1997, p. 28) showed the median allocation per pupil for library books
to be a mere $6.73, and that school library book budgets have generally
remained static since 1994."

"Last year on this page, I predicted that the 1998 average list price=20
for all grade levels would go to $16 and beyond and take no satisfaction=20
at all in coming within a penny of that forecast with this year's survey
of the spring '98 catalogs."

A chart compares '88 and '98 pricing.  Maybe you'll find this information
helpful when talking about your budget for the coming year.
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Chuck Pauley, Librarian
pauleyc@Willmar.K12.MN.US

Roosevelt Elementary
1800 19th Ave. SW
Willmar, MN 56201

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