Durant Road Elementary Media Center

Collection Management Plan

Library Mission

The mission of the library at Durant Road Elementary School is to help 21st Century students become effective users and producers of information and ideas, reading for fun and life-long learning and support student achievement.

The Collection

Collection Analysis

Collection Development

Decisions about library acquisitions are based on several considerations.

Media Advisory Committee

...consists of teachers representing every demographic in the school

There is a parent representative and students are consulted via google forms.

Other considerations

• · award winners
• · highly recommended books 
• · curricular support needs
• · teacher requests
• · student requests
• · student recreational reading
• · availability
• · suitability
• · funding

2018 -2019 Focus

Acquisitions

Continue to update 500's

reinforce curriculum areas impacted by ELA curriculum

Continue to add fiction with culturally diverse characters

weed and replace series books

wee picture books and fiction aggressively

Highest Circulation Areas

Our Natural Science Collection (The 500's) has an average publication date of 2002. It is recommended that science books be no more than 5 years older than the current date. That is not a realistic (or easily achievable) goal in a school of our size and age and with our budgetary constraints.  

The 500s cover a broad range of topics from mathematics, to physical science, life science, and earth science.  Books in this classification support many areas of the curriculum from force and motion, sound, planets, plants, weather, the water cycle,  rocks and minerals, habitats, and animal life.  The 500s comprise 11.5% of the total collection, which is the largest block after fiction.

We have made progress with the age of the collection.  Breaking it down by subject area: Astronomy, Chemistry, Life Sciences and Biology moved from an average copyright date of 1998 to 2003.  Medical Science is now 2004.

2017-2018  Focus 

Multicultural Titles /Weeding Replacements / Award winning titles/ Tech

The library has been operating with 4 desktops and 3 iPads which limits our ability to use technology to research and create.

We used PTA and book monies to purchase 10 Chromebooks.

books weeded 500

books added   360

computers added : 10 Chromebooks

2016 Focus

award winning fiction

Weeding replacements

Drawing books

Professional titles

Weeded 1,890

Added 542

2015 Focus

600 300 (Transportation)

550 (Weather)

Professional titles

300  (Government)

900  (History) specifically 5th grade curriculum

Average Age Political Science 2006

weeded 801

added 696

2014 Focus

Media Advisory Committee

As in previous years we targeted a specific area/subject . We chose 796 (Sports) based on high circulation rates, average age and condition of collection and comparison against the WCPSS opening day collection.

The 796 subject are comprises less than 2% of the total collection

Teacher requests:

Nonfiction: emergent readers

Nonfiction: high lexile

Nonfiction: 3rd and 5th grade History standards

Nonfiction: K-5 Earth Science standards

Fiction: book club books, low lexile

Student requests: 

Series Fiction

Sports and sports biographies

Ongoing:  

Award winning; high interest; series; replacements

Titles added: 330

Weeded: 442

 2013 Focus

Media Advisory Committee

The committee elected to concentrate funding to revive one “section” of the collection at a time each year, rather than dispersing funds broadly over the entire collection.

The library book budget of $5000 was spent on biographies.  To narrow choices from the $40,000 Wake County Opening Day book list teachers specified the purchase of books about inspirational figures, women, minorities, artists, inventors, scientists, authors.  Final selection was based on favorable reviews in School Library Journal and Hornbook.  

300 titles added

Biography comprises 6.56% of the total collection. (Despite purchases, this remains below the county average.)

2012 Focus

Media Advisory Committee

The library book budget of $5000 targeted books supporting 5th grade social studies instruction.   (Social Sciences, Geography, and History)

Selection was based on favorable reviews in School Library Journal and Hornbook and the WCPSS “opening day” booklist.                      

217 titles added 

The 300s comprise 8.69% of the total collection.

The 900’s comprise 5.07% of the total collection.

879 added (includes multiple titles for book club books, letterland, Scholastic bonus books)

1714 titles weeded

2011 Focus

Media Advisory Committee

The library won a $5000 grant from Capstone Publishers.  The money was spent on books in the sciences, with an emphasis on insects (595) per teacher request.  The average age of the science collection falls below the recommended range but our collection compares with collections in other schools of the same age.

WCPSS Budget -- Emergent readers, highly reviewed novels and picture books ($2500)

716 titles added

446 titles weeded

Projects and Improvements

Ongoing:

• Rearrange the fiction collection in genre order as opposed to the traditional author order.  This move was prompted by teacher and student requests and current trends in library media programs. Done
• Acquire more shelving  Done
• Shift Folk and Fairy Tale collection to promote higher circulation Done and Shifted again with genrification. Circ not improved

2018

• Folk and Fairy tale display
• picture books display
• redo cards