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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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=