A school library’s role is to meet the educational demands of pupils and to inspire and excite young readers. So, stock has to be appropriate in terms of the curriculum, interests and reading ages of the children. As well as giving children the resources they know they want and need, the good school library can take them beyond the known into new worlds. Selecting, maintaining and withdrawing stock needs to be systematic and continual so that the library is kept current, attractive and relevant.

 

Policy should be within the school’s overall resources policy, or the library policy. Key issues are acquisition, promotion, maintenance, use and the range and balance of the stock.

 

 

 

 

Assess each item in the context of your school.

Purpose

relevance to pupils and staff

does it achieve what it sets out to do?

does it appeal to the target age group?

Suitability