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> 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.

I don't think she will get far using that stat alone.  In this system we
have two well run libraries, one an HS and the other an elementary, that
have over 60% of materials pre 1985.   A more telling statistic for her to
use would be the date of specific collection that is currency sensitive,
like science.

best, A

Angus G. Saunders, Jr.                               saunders@northnet.org
Jefferson Lewis BOCES SLS Director;      BOCES, Rt. 12, Glenfield NY 13343
315 376 6501

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