[ISLMA-Share] "Average" size collection for 420 student middle school

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If you go to the collection development link on the ALA website and look at
the sources under the subtitle, "Books Per Student," it might help you. The
most recent information highlights the development of an entire collection
(print and digital) and not solely the number of books in a library's
physical collection, though there is information about that too.

http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php?title=Collection_Development

*Kristen Oster*
*Wesclin CUSD #3*
*Librarian*
*Rhetoric and Research Teacher*
*618-224-7341 x 5101*

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I recently retired from a K-5 building with 470 students and had 8500
> books.
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> They did the same for me but I had the advantage that most of my books
>> are thin as we are a K-8 so I could keep more.  They told me ahead of time
>> that I had to decrease my collection by 3,000 books and I did it by getting
>> rid of any duplicate copies and older than 10 year non fiction.  We have
>> 320 kids and my collection stands at 12,500
>>
>>
>>
>> Betty Klein
>>
>> Librarian
>>
>> Avery Coonley School
>>
>> Downers Grove, IL  60515
>>
>> kleibet at averycoonley.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> *Subject:* [ISLMA-Share] "Average" size collection for 420 student
>> middle school
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> My library got renovated during the summer and today the company came to
>> put all my books back on the shelves. Lo and behold, there are not enough
>> shelves! We are 26 shelves short! Which led the project manager on the
>> business end to ask me if I am perhaps a bit "heavy" on books?
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what your collection number is for a middle school
>> with around 430 students? I have 10,000 books.
>>
>> Thank you for any advice.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Lori McGreal
>>
>> Library Media Specialist
>>
>> Lincoln Hall Middle School
>> 6950 N. East Prairie Road
>> Lincolnwood, IL 60712
>> Phone: 847-745-3843
>>
>> lmcgreal at sd74.org
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