Running Head: COLLECTION ANALYSIS RYRES 1

Media Center Collection Analysis for Rocky River Elementary School

Natalie E. Grimaud

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Table of Contents

I. Demographic Analysis .........................................................................................3

A. The Community ...................................................................................................3

B. The School ..........................................................................................................3

C. The Students .......................................................................................................4

D. The Staff ..............................................................................................................5

E. The Library Program ............................................................................................5

II. The Collection ......................................................................................................7

A. Summary .............................................................................................................7

B. Age of the Collection ...........................................................................................10

C. Curriculum Areas .................................................................................................11

D. Selected Divisions ...............................................................................................13

E. Comparisons .......................................................................................................20

III. Data Analysis and Interpretation .........................................................................21

IV. Collection Development Five-Year Plan ..............................................................22

A. Overview ..............................................................................................................22

B. Budget .................................................................................................................23

C. Yearly Focus and Materials .................................................................................24

V. References ..........................................................................................................26

VI. Appendices ..........................................................................................................28

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I. Demographic Analysis

A. The Community

Geographic Information, Demographics, Education and Employment

Rocky River Elementary School is a part of Union County Public Schools in North

Carolina. About 11% of the population of Union County lives below the poverty line and

about 89% of the county has a high school degree and 32% have a bachelors degree

(for citizens 25+ years of age). The population of the county is less racially diverse than

the population of Rocky River elementary with 73% of the population White and not

Hispanic, 12% African American, and 11% Hispanic (United States Census Bureau).

Rocky River Elementary is in the city of Monroe, which is a less affluent and more

racially diverse area of the county. There is an active public library within the Monroe

cluster of schools of which Rocky River Elementary is a part. The public library

provides free wifi and is working on collaborating with Union County Public Schools to

best serve the students.

B. The School

Mission Statement

The mission statement of Rocky River Elementary School is: Inspiring Learners

and Empowering Leaders. The vision statement for the school is to build a

collaborative learning environment where students are engaged, included, and

expected to be active participants in daily learning and to build students that are

leaders and empowered to take responsibility of their own learning and outcomes

(School Improvement Plan). The school is working on becoming a Leader in Me

school through promoting the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People based on a book
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of the same name by Stephen Covey (Rocky River Elementary School Improvement

Plan).

Description and Operations

The school operates on a traditional schedule, open from late August to early

June. The school day for students is from 7:30-2:00; however, students are allowed in

the building starting at 7:00. The school has a main hall with three wings designated by

color. On the main hall are the office, library, gym, cafeteria, computer lab, art room,

and a few special education classrooms. On the first wing (blue) is 2nd and 3rd grade;

on the middle wing (green) is Pre-K through 1st grade, and on the last wing (orange) is

4th and 5th grade.

C. The Students

Enrollment and Demographics

Rocky River Elementary School is a Title I school with approximately 60% of its

900 students on free and reduced lunch. About 48% of the students are Caucasian,

28% are Hispanic, and 17% African American. The school is less than 10 years old,

established in 2007. Some strong points of the school include a warm and welcoming

environment, ongoing staff development, literacy and math curriculum support, and

weekly team meetings. Some areas needing improvement are parental involvement,

lack of literacy experience before starting school, lack of books in the home, and lack of

language fluency (School Profile Fast Facts).

Test Scores

Rocky River Elementary School received a grade of B on the NC School Report

Card. The students have a tendency to do better in math than reading; they excel in
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science with scores significantly above the average for the state and district. The

reading scores are comparable to similar schools in the state and district (NC School

Report Cards, 2012-2013).

Discipline

The school uses positive reinforcement as much as possible to manage student

behavior. Classes receive roadrunners (the school mascot) for positive behavior.

Specials teachers, including the librarian, may award a class up to five roadrunners

each time they have the class. Every time a class earns 100 roadrunners, they are

rewarded and congratulated by the principal over the intercom. Individual students also

have clothespins and can either move up or down depending on behavior; students are

rewarded for being above where they started (at green) each day.

D. The Staff

Demographics

According to the 2014-2015 NC School Report Card, 26% percent of the 58

teachers at Rocky River Elementary School have advanced degrees. A few are

currently working on earning an advanced degree. Four teachers have their National

Board Certification, and two teachers have started the process this year to get it. Of all

of the teachers at Rocky River Elementary, 28% have 0-3 years of experience, 31%

have 4-10 years of experience, and 41% have 10+ years of experience.

E. The Library Program

Mission Statement

The current mission statement of the library at Rocky River Elementary School is

to be a haven where children are encouraged to find books that interest them and that
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allow their knowledge to grow (RYRES Library Media Center). A revised mission

statement should include specific goals and should do away with the phrase allow their

knowledge to grow. A possible revised mission statement is: The library media center

aims to be a haven where children are encouraged to develop reading skills by finding

books that are appropriate for their reading level and whose subject is interesting to

them. The library media program also is to teach students to become effective users

and finders of relevant and reliable information by providing resources that support the

curriculum and collaborating with classroom teachers to teach research skills.

Schedule

The library operates on a combined fixed and flexible schedule. On Mondays

and Wednesdays, the librarian sees one class in each grade level for forty minutes as

part of specials (art, music, etc.). The other classes do not have a set time to come to

the library and do not have media as part of specials. The librarian provides duty free

lunch to three different teachers once a week, so they library is not available for open

checkout during lunchtime. Open checkout when teachers can send students down in

small groups is available before the tardy bell from 7:00-7:30AM every day and in the

afternoons from 12:30-2:00 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Teachers are also

encouraged to sign up to bring their whole class down for open checkout using Google

appointment slots on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays during both morning and

afternoon time slots. The time slots are available in 10 minute increments, but multiple

time slots may be chosen. Teachers can also use the appointment slots to reserve

large blocks of time to be in the media center for research and collaborative work.4
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II. The Collection

A. Summary

According to the TitleWise Collection Analysis Tool provided by Follett, Rocky

River Elementary School has 16,664 items in the collection. This works out to be 20.8

items per student. This meets the minimum quantity standard for an outstanding

collection according to the 2005 IMPACT guidelines. However, the average age of the

collection is 2003, which is 13 years from the time of this analysis. This is close to the

minimum requirement for quality standards (IMPACT, 2005).

Fiction texts make up about 29% of the collection, which is lower than the Follett

guidelines recommend. Nonfiction text comprises 71% of the collection. The collection

also includes 1,437 ebooks and other digital items, which comprise close to 9% of the

collection. The school also purchases magazine subscriptions for 24 different

magazines; these are not included in Destiny resource manager but are checked out as

temporary titles. There are both educational and recreational magazines.

The easy fiction section contains 3,828 items (23%), and general fiction section

includes 3,242 items (19.5%). The collection contains 312 reference items with an

average age of 2005 and 405 professional items with an average age of 2002. There

are 933 biographies.

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Collection by Categories (Titlewise Analysis)

Easy
23%

Story Collection
0%
Professional Non-fiction
2% 47%
Biography
6%

Reference
2%
General Fiction
20%

Non-fiction General Fiction Reference Biography Professional Story Collection Easy

The nonfiction section includes a total of 7,898 items with an average age of

2004. The largest section of the nonfiction collection is the science (500) section. The

500 section includes 2,640 titles. This is more than twice the number of titles in the next

largest hundreds area; both the 300s, social sciences, and the 900s, history and

geography, have close to 1,200 items. There are three Dewey hundreds sections that

have fewer than 100 titles each. The 000s, computer science, information, and general

works, has 70 titles. The 100s, philosophy and psychology, has 86 titles, and the 200s,

religion, has 90 titles.

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Nonfiction by Category (Titlewise Analysis)

000 Computer
Science, Information 100 Philosophy
& General Works & Psychology
400 000 Computer Science, Information
1% 1%
200 Religion Language & General Works
1% 5%
100 Philosophy & Psychology

200 Religion
900 History &
800 Geography
Literature 16% 300 Social Sciences 300 Social Sciences
6% 15%

400 Language

700 Arts &

Recreation 500 Science
10%
600 Technology
600 Technology 500 Science
12% 33%
700 Arts & Recreation

800 Literature

900 History & Geography

The students and staff also have access to a wide variety of databases and

electronic resources. In addition to the ebooks purchased through Follett, Rocky River

has licenses for WebPath Express, NC Wise Owl, ProQuest CultureGrams, Scholastic

BookFlix, PebbleGo, Tumble Books, BrainPop, and Country Reports. Scholastic

BookFlix and Tumble Books allow students to read books online or have books read to

them. NC Wise Owl, Proquest CultureGrams, and PebbleGo are kid-friendly databases

of information. Brainpop is another kid-friendly database for information on many

different topics, but the information here is contained in a video; BrainPop also has

quizzes and an activity to go along with each video.

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As of the previous school year inventory, there were 799 tech resources and 415

other electronic resources. Some of these resources include chromebooks for every

student in grades 3-5, scientific and four-function calculators, netbooks for K-2 students

(about four working ones per classroom), radio/cassette/CD players, document

cameras, projectors, Promethian boards and slates, desktop computers for the

computer lab and media center, and laptops available for substitutes.

B. Age of the Collection

As mentioned, the average age of the library collection at Rocky River

Elementary School is 2003 or 13 years old. According to the 2005 IMPACT collection

guidelines, the minimum quality standard for an outstanding collection is an average

age of 10 years old. Rocky Rivers collection falls under the minimum guidelines for a

library collection. The average age of the digital collection is 2009, but the digital

collection comprises only 9% of the collection. The average age of the print collection is

still 2003. The average age of the fiction section is 2002, and the average age of the

nonfiction section is 2004.

There are 1,335 items in the age-sensitive areas of the collection. Of those

1,335 items, 963 are considered aged, or 72%. Of the entire collection, 30% is

considered aged and 12% of the collection was published within the last five years. The

decade with the most titles is the 2000s with 10,473 titles; the next highest is the 2010s

with 2,691 titles. There are 33 titles that are from the 1950s or older and 60 titles from

the 1960s. In the Systems Data/Computer Programs, there are 15 titles and all 15 of

those are considered aged.

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Age-Sensitive Areas (Titlewise Analysis)

350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0

Items Aged

If all of the aged titles from just the age-sensitive areas were weeded from the

collection, the collection would drop to 19.6 titles per student. If all of the aged titles

were weeded from the entire collection, the collection would drop to 14.6 titles per

student; this only meets the minimum quantity guidelines for a library collection

according to the 2005 IMPACT study. This would not include any other books that need

to be weeded due to damage or lack of use.

C. Curriculum Areas

The collection is also analyzed for its usefulness within the curriculum. A content

standard for both fourth grade science and social studies was looked at in depth.

The content area chosen for fourth grade science was earth in the universe; the

NC essential standards are given below. The Dewey decade determined to be most

relevant to the content covered by this standard is the 520s, Astronomy. There are 235

titles in this decade. The quantity of titles in this decade is enough to meet the needs of
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the students and staff. There are enough for every student in fourth grade to have 1-2

titles checked out at the same time. However, though the quantity of the section is

sufficient, the quality warrants more scrutiny. Of the 235 titles in the 520s, 94 were

published in the 2010s, 121 in the 2000s, 16 in the 1990s, and 4 in the 1980s. The

astronomy section is considered an age sensitive area and 147 (62.5%) titles are

considered age and could contain erroneous or antiquated information. Following a

search of the Wilson Childrens Core collection of fourth grade titles in the 520-529

range, there are seven books also found in the Rocky River Elementary library

collection.

Essential Standard Clarifying Objective

4.E.1 Explain the causes of day and
night and phases of the moon.
4.E.1.1 Explain the cause of day and
night based on the rotation of
Earth on its axis.
4.E.1.2 Explain the monthly changes in
the appearance of the moon,
based on the moons orbit
around the Earth.

The content area chosen for fourth grade social studies was economics and

financial literacy. The NC essential standard for this content area are also given below.

The Dewey decade determined to be most useful for meeting the content needs of this

standard was the 330s, economics. There are 69 titles in this decade. Economics is

not considered an age-sensitive area; however, the average age of these 69 items is

2006, ten years old. Many of these titles are still considered aged; only 20 of them were

published in the 2010s. This section contains enough materials to meet the needs of

one or two classes, but it cannot meet the needs of the entire grade level
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simultaneously. The quantity of titles in this decade should be increased with quality

titles to meet the needs of the grade level.

Essential Standard Clarifying Objectives

4.E.1 Understand how a market
economy impacts life in North
Carolina.
4.E.2 Understand the economic factors
when making personal choices.
4.E.1.1 Understand the basic concepts
of a market economy: price,
supply, demand, scarcity,
productivity and
entrepreneurship.
4.E.1.2 Understand how scarcity and
choice in a market economy
impact business decisions.
4.E.1.3 Analyze the historical and
contemporary role that major
North Carolina industries have
played in the state, nation and
world.
4.E.1.4 Explain the impact of
entrepreneurship on the
economy of North Carolina.
4.E.2.1 Explain how personal financial
decisions such as spending,
saving and paying taxes can
positively and/or negatively
affect everyday life.
4.E.2.2 Explain how scarcity of personal
financial resources affects the
choices people make based on
their wants and needs.

D. Selected Divisions

This collection analysis also involved a physical analysis of a sample of 80

books. The physical analysis focuses on the 300s, 500s, 900s, and easy fiction (or

Everybody section). A sample of 20 books from each division was chosen randomly

by teachers not assigned to a specific grade level; the teachers were not told why the

books were being chosen in order to not influence their selection. The books were

evaluated for age, condition, number of checkouts, and type of binding. The condition
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of the books was rated on a scale of one to five, one represents significant damage, two

is slight damage, three is fair, four is good, and five is like new.

The books chosen from the everybody section has an average age of 1999, or

17 years old. The average condition of the books is 3.2, which is fair. The average

number of total checkouts is 32, and eight of the twenty books have a certified library

binding.

Condition of Everybody Sample

Significant damage
(1) Like New (5)
5% 5%

Slight damage (2)

10%

Good (4)
30%

Like New (5)

Good (4)
Fair (3)
Slight damage (2)
Significant damage (1)

Fair (3)
50%
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45%
Publication Year of Everybody Sample
40%

35%

30%

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0%
1981-1985 1986-1990 1991-1995 1996-2000 2001-2005 2006-2010 2011-2015

The books chosen from the 300s, social sciences, section have an average age

of 2002, or 14 years old. The average condition of this sample is 4, good. The average

number of total checkouts is 26, and five of the twenty chosen books have certified

library binding.
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Condition of 300s Sample

Slight damage (2) Significant damage

15% (1)
0%

Fair (3) Like New (5)

10% 40%

Like New (5)

Good (4)
Fair (3)
Slight damage (2)
Significant damage (1)

Good (4)
35%

60%
Publication Year of 300s Sample
50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%
1981-1985 1986-1990 1991-1995 1996-2000 2001-2005 2006-2010 2011-2015

The next sample analyzed was the 500s section, or science section. The 500s

sample has an average age of 2003, about 13 years old. The average condition is 3.6,
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fair. The average number of total checkouts is 28.1, and five of the twenty books

sampled have certified library binding.

Significant damage Condition of 500s Sample

(1)
0%
Like New (5)
15%
Slight damage (2)
10%

Like New (5)

Good (4)

Fair (3)
Fair (3) Slight damage (2)
35%
Significant damage (1)

Good (4)
40%
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40%
Publication Year of 500s Sample
35%

30%

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0%
1981-1985 1986-1990 1991-1995 1996-2000 2001-2005 2006-2010 2011-2015

The last section physically analyzed was the 900s, history and geography. The

900s sample has an average age of 2004, about 12 years old. The average condition

of this sample is 4.1, good. The average number of total checkouts is 18.55, and eight

of the twenty sampled books have a certified library binding.

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Condition of 900s Sample

Slight damage (2) Significant damage
0% (1)
0%
Fair (3)
15%

Like New (5)

35%

Like New (5)

Good (4)
Fair (3)
Slight damage (2)
Significant damage (1)

Good (4)
50%

60%
Publication Year of 900s Sample
50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%
1981-1985 1986-1990 1991-1995 1996-2000 2001-2005 2006-2010 2011-2015

Although this age of these samples falls under the minimum or developing

guidelines set forth by the 2005 IMPACT study, the collection is in good or fair physical
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condition. The good condition of these books may partially explain why they have not

been weeded in previous years.

To elaborate more on the age of these selected divisions, titles in the 300s

section are recommended to be weeded after they are 10 years old (IMPACT, 2005),

with the exception of some, such as fairytales and folklore. Titles in the 500s, science

section, are often out-of-date after five years. Both of these sections warrant much

consideration for weeding.

E. Comparisons

As the table below demonstrates, there are several areas of the collection at

Rocky River Elementary School that do not align with the recommended percentage of

collection according the 2005 IMPACT study. The science section is actually larger

than the recommended percent of the collection by more than 5%. The literature

section, 800s, is smaller than recommended by more than a percent. The reference

section is smaller than recommended by 3%, and the history and geography section,

900s, is smaller than recommended by more than 10%.

Percent of Collection Comparisons

Recommended %
% of collection of collection via
Call # Classification (Titlewise Analysis) IMPACT, 2005
Computer Science, Information &
000 General Works 0.42% 1%
100 Philosophy & Psychology 0.52% 1%
200 Religion 0.54% 1%
300 Social Sciences 7.05% 5-13%
400 Language 2.11% .5-5%
500 Science 15.86% 5-10%
600 Technology 5.53% 5-10%
700 Arts & Recreation 4.90% 4.5-10%
800 Literature 2.97% 4-10.8%
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900 History & Geography 7.55% 20.5-24.8%

920-921 Biography 5.60%
REF Reference 1.87% 5-10%
F General Fiction 19.48% 20-23%
E Easy 23.00% 14-25%

III. Data Analysis and Interpretation

As the analysis demonstrates, Rocky River Elementary Schools library collection

is expansive, yet aged. The quantity of the collection is considered outstanding with

20.6 titles per student. However, with 30% of the collection considered age, the quality

of the collection does not meet the needs of the students. If all of the aged titles were

weeded, the collection would drop to just meeting even the minimum quantity

standards.

A strength of the library collection is that it has many titles that are of interest to

the students. The collection has many nonfiction animal books and several series

appropriate for different grade levels. Unfortunately, many of these titles are aged. This

section of the collection needs to be evaluated to make sure the titles students are

checking out are not providing them with inaccurate information.

The library also has a strong language section. The many Spanish titles support

the large Hispanic population. There are also many easy fiction titles that are helpful for

English language learners.

Another strength of the collection is the access to age-appropriate databases

online. The databases such as PebbleGo and WebPath Express provide students with

up-to-date and reliable information.

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Some weaknesses of the collection are the professional section and the history

and geography section. There are several staff working on advanced degrees or

national board certification, and the professional resources are rarely circulated.

The history and geography section comprises 7.5% of the collection. The

biography section, also part of the 900s, comprises 5.6% of the total collection.

Combined this is still smaller than the recommended percentage of the total collection.

The weak history and geography section does not meet the needs of the students or

staff. There are not enough titles to help each student meet the content standards of

the social studies curriculum.

IV. Collection Development Five-Year Plan

A. Overview

The collection development plan involves evaluating the aged titles for weeding,

then replenishing the collection with newer titles from the Wilson Core Collection to help

achieve a balanced collection according the standards set forth in the 2005 IMPACT

study.

The weeding and replenishing will focus on the age-sensitive areas first,

particularly the science sections, astronomy and biology, as those are popular sections.

Sports are another age-sensitive, popular area. After the age sensitive areas have

been weeded and replenished, weeding and replenishing will focus on the other aged

titles.

The collection development will also include fiction purchases every year to keep

recent and popular titles available. Teacher and student recommendations and
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requests will also be considered for purchase each year. Following a survey of the

classroom teachers, the library collection is lacking in easy chapter books and series.

B. Budget Recommendation

The 2005 IMPACT study provides three different formulas for calculating a

recommended budget. The second formula is the formula used in this collection

development. This formula involves calculating the cost of adding one book per child

each year. According to the School Library Journal, the average cost for a hardcover

title in the school library is $19.19 for 2016 as of March 7. The average cost for 2015

for childrens hardcover titles was $18.95. According to the Titlewise analysis provided

by Follett, Rocky River Elementary School has 801 students. Using the one book per

student method and the 2015 average cost of $18.95, the budget for this collection

should be roughly $15,178.95 per year, or close to $76,000 over a five-year period.

According to the 2005 IMPACT study, this is the budget recommendation to maintain,

not to build, a media collection.

The current budget for the library collection is around $5,000 per year from the

administration; the library also receives fund from the book fair in the spring. This

collection development plan will focus on spending roughly $6,000 per year, which

should allow for 300-350 books per year depending on cost. Additional funds would be

used to purchase books as prizes, to support a Battle of the Books team, to purchase

updated technology and furniture/hardware, to enhance the digital collection, and used

in other ways as determined by the librarian and the Media and Technology Advisory

Committee.
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C. Yearly Focus and Materials

Each year will focus on weeding aged materials from one of the five time-

sensitive sections. The first year will focus on the science section. This section is

disproportionately large within the collection, comprising nearly 16% of the entire

collection. However, this section also has many aged titles that need to be weeded.

Between 900-1000 books will be weeded from this section including aged titles, books

with significant damage, and titles with fewer than one checkout per year or that have

not been checked out within the past two years. According to the Follett Titlewise

Analysis, there are 865 aged titles in this section. About 250 books will be purchased to

replenish this section. This will still leave the 500s section at 10-12% of the total

collection, whereas the recommended percentage of the collection is 5-10%. About

$1,000-$2,000 will be set aside to purchase recommendations and requests by students

and staff and to purchase books for the fiction sections of the collection.

The second and third years will focus on the 600s and 300s, health and

technology and government and economics respectively. There are 299 aged titles in

the 600s and 504 aged titles in the 300s. The aged titles will be evaluated for

usefulness and relevancy to the curriculum based on circulation statistics and Dewey

Decades and weeded as appropriate. The 360s, 370s, 380s, and 610s are all age-

sensitive decades, and there are 314 titles in these decades. Over the course of two

years, these sections will be replenished to attempt to maintain a minimum of 5% of the

collection each. The social studies curriculum was found to be lacking resources more

than the science curriculum, so 175 titles will be added to the 300s section, government

and economics, and 75 added to the 600s section, health and technology each of the
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two years. This should cost about $9,500 for the two years. About $1,000 should be

spent each year on fiction books.

The fourth year will focus on updating the 900s section. The 900s section,

including biographies comprises on about 13% of the total collection. The

recommendation here is roughly 20-25% of the total collection. The 910s is considered

age-sensitive, and there are only 50 aged titles out of the 123 in this decade. There are

440 aged titles in the 900s section; however, many of those may be considered still

relevant, such as biographies and history. About 250 titles should be purchased during

the fourth year to increase the quantity and quality of the 900s section, few of these

titles should be biographies since the biographies section already comprises more than

a third of the 900s section. About 50-60 fiction books and teacher recommendations

should also be able to be purchased during the fourth year.

During the fifth year, the reference section will need to be updated. The average

age of the reference section is 2005, and the reference section comprises about 2% of

the collection. The material in this section does not meet the quantity or quality needs

of the school. The online databases purchased by the school and by the county are

currently helping meet the reference needs of the students. An updated set of

encyclopedias should be purchased this year, as well as a couple updated atlases and

almanacs. Again, fiction books should also be purchased as well as student and

teacher requests.
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https://sites.google.com/a/ucps.k12.nc.us/mrs-grimaud-s-library-media-center/.
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School Profile Fast Facts. Rocky River Elementary School. Retrieved from:

http://www.ucps.k12.nc.us/domain/714.

SLJs Average Book Prices for 2016. (7 March 2016). School Library Journal. Retrieved

from: http://www.slj.com/2016/03/research/sljs-average-book-prices-for-2016/.

TitleWise Collection Analysis: Rocky River Elementary School Library Collection (6

September 2016). Follett TitleWave.

United States Census Bureau. Union County, North Carolina. Retrieved from:

http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/37179.
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Collection Development Plan

Five-Year Plan to Address Collection Needs
2016-2021

School: Librarian: Natalie Grimaud

Rocky River Elementary School (Monroe, NC)
Total number of Total number of Number of books per Average age of Total number of
students books student collection books after weeding
collection
801 16,664 20.8 2003 11,731
Collection Development Goals and Priority Areas
2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021
Targeted Dewey Areas and topics for development
Science (500s): Social Studies (300s): Social Studies (300s): History and Reference:
Topics: Political science Political science Geography (900s): Encyclopedias
Astronomy Social problems and Social problems and Geography and Travel Atlas
Life Sciences & Biology services services History of North Almanac
Paleontology Economics Education America
Plants Commerce, Customs, etiquette, and History of Ancient Fiction:
Mathematics communications, and folklore World High interest, low level
transportation Technology (600s): Modern biographies chapter books
Fiction: Technology (600s): Medical science New series books
High interest, low level Medical science Technology Fiction: Student requests
chapter books Technology Building and High interest, low level Teacher requests
New series books Building and construction chapter books
Student requests construction Manufacturing New series books
Teacher requests Manufacturing Student requests
Fiction: Teacher requests
Fiction: High interest, low level
High interest, low level chapter books
chapter books New series books
New series books Student requests
Student requests Teacher requests
Teacher requests
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Justifications
Aged titles Aged titles Aged titles Aged titles Outdated encyclopedia
Emphasis on curriculum Emphasis on curriculum Emphasis on curriculum Emphasis on curriculum set
needs needs needs needs Aged reference titles
Need new, high interest Need new, high interest Need new, high interest Need new, high interest Small reference section
fiction to keep students fiction to keep students fiction to keep students fiction to keep students Need new, high interest
engaged engaged engaged engaged fiction to keep students
engaged
Formats and numbers needed
Nonfiction science titles Nonfiction social Nonfiction social Nonfiction social Encyclopedia
Fiction books studies and science studies and science studies (history) titles Almanacs
Easy fiction books titles titles Fiction books Atlases
Science ebooks Fiction books Fiction books Easy fiction books Other Reference titles
Easy fiction books Easy fiction books Social studies ebooks Fiction books
Social studies and Social studies and Easy fiction books
science ebooks science ebooks

Minimum Budget for Developing Collection per Year

(does not include regular yearly materials budget)
250 nonfiction books 250 nonfiction books 250 nonfiction books 250 nonfiction books Encyclopedia Set
@ $18.95 = $4737.50 @ $18.95 = $4737.50 @ $18.95 = $4737.50 @ $18.95 = $4737.50 @$850
60 fiction/requests 60 fiction/requests 60 fiction/requests 60 fiction/requests Up to $3000 on
@18.95 = $1137 @18.95 = $1137 @18.95 = $1137 @18.95 = $1137 reference books outside
Total = $5874.50 Total = $5874.50 Total = $5874.50 Total = $5874.50 of encyclopedia
90 fiction/requests
@18.95 = $1705.50
Total = $5555.50

* Note: Prices are based on annual survey from School Library Journal Average Library Book Prices.
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