<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Here is the why from ALA. Seems straightforward and lists what should be included. <div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Every library — academic, public, and school (public, private, charter, independent, and international) — should have a comprehensive written policy that guides the selection, deselection or weeding, and reconsideration of library resources. The most valuable selection policy is current; it is reviewed and revised on a regular basis; and it is familiar to all members of a library’s staff. The policy should be approved by the library’s governing board or other policy-making body and disseminated widely for understanding by all stakeholders.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The policy:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1rem 0rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4.8rem; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.75; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ensures that the selection of materials reflects the institution’s philosophy, mission, guiding principles, or other foundational documents</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Provides a framework for the consistent selection and acquisition of library resources in all formats using a standard set of criteria</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Avoids haphazard patterns of acquisition that will result in waste or overlap of content</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">States who is responsible for selection and the parameters under which the individual(s) work, but allows for professional judgment</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ensures a diversity of viewpoints on all topics, including those that may be considered controversial</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Identifies cooperative collection development arrangements such as resource sharing including interlibrary loans, agreements to purchase or lease e-content, and resource retention commitments (for example, archival materials, government documents, local author materials)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Provides standards for collection maintenance and the removal of library resources that are out-of-date, inaccurate or no longer reflect the consensus of the field, in poor condition, rarely used, in an obsolete format, no longer fit the needs of library patrons, or have excess copies</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Supplies guidelines for consideration of gifts and donations</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Establishes a process by which individuals may share their concerns about library resources in a discussion with a librarian or, if their concerns are unresolved, invoke a formal reconsideration process</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Affirms the importance of intellectual freedom, referencing key documents such as the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Library Bill of Rights, and the Freedom to Read Statement</li></ul><a href="https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/selectionpolicytoolkit/why">https://www.ala.org/tools/challengesupport/selectionpolicytoolkit/why</a></div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Mrs. Kristine Schauff,</i> Library Media Specialist</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rock Falls High School</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">101 - 12th Ave.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rock Falls, IL 61071</span></div><div><span dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">815-625-3886 x248</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:schauffk@rfhs301.org" target="_blank">schauffk@rfhs301.org</a> (respond to me directly)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:library@rfhs301.org" target="_blank">library@rfhs301.org</a> (general library question)</span></font></div><div><a href="http://www.rfhs301.org/" target="_blank" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">School website</font></a></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://rockriver.tlcdelivers.com:8480/?config=rfh#" target="_blank">Online catalog</a><br></span></font></div><div><a href="http://sites.google.com/rfhs301.org/rfhslibrary/home" target="_blank" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Library Website</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">RAILS: ILDS/XRF/RTLY-14</span></div></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">OCLC: LJ5</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 25, 2023, at 8:42 PM, Andrea Perrin via AISLE <aisle@list.railslibraries.info> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Does anyone have an article (appropriate to give an administrator) about the importance of having written library procedures and reconsideration procedures?</div>
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