Target: Independent School Libraries, volume numbers

[Camille Atkins <CUAVCU@AOL.COM>]

Greetings,
I have found statistics on number of volumes in public school libraries
ranging from 6-20 per student in the LM-Net archives.  Is the range the same
for independent schools, or has the subject never come up?  My school has
just formed a fund-raising committee just for the libraries and I was asked
to pull some statistics.  I had a parent come up to me and tell me that the
students should go to the public library to get their fiction books and do
additional research.  We use AR and it is pretty rural out here.  In addition
to those facts, our student population comes from 6 different counties.  The
public libraries are few and far in between.  Shouldn't the library have as
many up to date and timely fiction as well as classics, not just the
curriculum subjects on the shelf?  Shouldn't the independent school library
be a one stop shop? I have always tried to stretch the budget as far as I
can, but I had to use part of my budget for databases this year and I weeded
heavily and needed to replace some 50 year old biographies and other
non-fiction.  The former librarian did not weed because she wanted to shelves
to look full.  Anyway, if anyone can help with a general rules of thumb about
volumes per student or just collection size in general, I would appreciate
it.

Thanks,
Camille Atkins
Head Librarian
Highland School
Warrenton, Va. 20186
atkins@highlandschool.org
cuavcu@aol.com

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