Part G - School Library Media Collection

• Report in Col. A and Col. B on all holdings (except N/A on Line 4).

• Include all circulating and non-circulating items, but
• Exclude any materials that are not available for use by teachers or students, such as materials reserved for library media staff, the principal, counselors, etc.
• Report average copyright dates in Col. B. If these dates cannot be obtained from an electronic catalog, randomly select 25 items in the category (e.g., one per range or section, every third item, an item from every fifth shelf), and average their copyright dates.
• Report items in the collection as of the end of the 2001-2002 school year.

Books

Books are non-periodical printed publications bound in hard or soft covers, or in loose-leaf format.  Count serials and government documents as books.  Exclude current print subscriptions to magazines and newspapers.

Reference Books

Non-circulating books.

Audio Materials

A generic term for material on which sounds (only) are stored (recorded) and that can be reproduced (played back) mechanically or electronically, or both. This includes records, audiocassettes, audiocartridges, audiodiscs, audioreels, talking books, and other sound recordings. Items which are packaged together as a unit (e.g., 10 audio tapes, 3 video tapes, 4 compact disks) and are generally checked out as a unit, should be counted as one physical unit.

Video Materials

These are materials on which pictures are recorded, with or without sound. Electronic playback reproduces pictures, with or without sound, using a television receiver or monitor. Items which are packaged together as a unit (e.g., 3 video tapes, 4 compact disks, 2 DVD's) and are generally checked out as a unit, should be counted as one physical unit. 

Computer Software Packages

Includes procedures and associated documentation that instruct the computer to perform certain types of tasks, in contrast to the physical components or devices of a computer (hardware) (for example, Word, Access, Excel, etc.)  

If the software is loaded on multiple computers, count the number of licenses owned by the library.  For MS Office, count each program as 1 software package.

Count only those software packages that are on or used by computers in the library.

Boxed sets

Count multiple items in a boxed set as 1 circulation, unless the items are individually bar-coded.