Age of High School Book Collections

[Barbara Wall <bwall@OSWEGOBOCES.ORG>]

Friends,

A new librarian in one of our High Schools has recently gone through her
collection only to discover that 40% of it is older than 1972!  She would
like to know what average age a collection should be and and perhaps what
the average age for many high schools is.  If you can suggest somewhere for
me to get this information, I would appreciate it very much.  She wants to
take this to her Superintendent in order to get a better book budget.

Thanks,

Barbara Wall
School Library System Director
Oswego and OCM BOCES
Mexico (snow not sun), NY
bawall@northnet.org
bwall@oswegoboces.rog

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