The scanner for collecting inventory is $1595 through February during a promotion Follett is having. It is called the Panther, is PDA, with data cable, charger cable, will work withing a wireless system, Windows or in an upgrade to Destiny. There is a one year warranty with option of a second year if added within 30 days of purchase for $265.
Julie is looking at it now. I will forward the e-mail so that you can see the info. from the company.
I sent you our total collection sizes so that we could maybe begin a discussion of how to effieciently and cost effectively address this issue within the district. Looking forward to your ideas!
Friday, November 9, 2007
Collection Stats
Feel free your info. or not at your comfort level or comment on my musings:
GIS- 11,491 books; average age of collection 1988
GHS- 7,044 books; average age of collection 1981
I have been working on improving the average age of the collection for the past 4 years. It is a slow process. National standards indicate that we (as a public school) should be within 10 years as an average age. This allows for the classics to remain on the shelf with copyright dates of 1907 and such but bringing up science titles to current standards and knowledge.
Here are a few examples of specific Dewey catagorizations:
GHS 000-099 1992
500-599 1977
Fiction 1982
GIS 000-099 1995
500-599 1990
Fiction 1987
The average age is a guideline but I really like to look more specifically at the breakdown by Dewey 100s (and even smaller sometimes). Obviously our science collection at the high school should average more recent than 1977. Fiction I'm not too concerned about because we have the classics with copyright dates before the 20th century.
GIS- 11,491 books; average age of collection 1988
GHS- 7,044 books; average age of collection 1981
I have been working on improving the average age of the collection for the past 4 years. It is a slow process. National standards indicate that we (as a public school) should be within 10 years as an average age. This allows for the classics to remain on the shelf with copyright dates of 1907 and such but bringing up science titles to current standards and knowledge.
Here are a few examples of specific Dewey catagorizations:
GHS 000-099 1992
500-599 1977
Fiction 1982
GIS 000-099 1995
500-599 1990
Fiction 1987
The average age is a guideline but I really like to look more specifically at the breakdown by Dewey 100s (and even smaller sometimes). Obviously our science collection at the high school should average more recent than 1977. Fiction I'm not too concerned about because we have the classics with copyright dates before the 20th century.
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