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

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I have about 10K books and around the same number of students.

Mariela Siegert
School Librarian
Westfield Middle School
marris116 at gmail.com
@marris116

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I think that it depends on your circulation rates. If you circulate a lot
> of books, having a high ratio of books per student would be ideal. However
> if your circ rates are "average", then it looks like a ratio of 10:1 is
> more typical.
>
>
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> Gretchen Zaitzeff
> University High School
> Normal, IL
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> middle school
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> During my library certification classes, we were told a ratio of 20:1 is
> appropriate for a school library. So, with your student population you
> would want to be at about 8,600 books. Hope this helps!
>
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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
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>> Our school has just over 11,000 books and we have almost 1,000 students.
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>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>>> 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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