High School Media Center Collection Development Policy
Reflecting back on the past two years, I am grateful to USF for providing opportunities that I had not imagined. Due to COVID, my MBA employment contracts ended. I needed a job and the MLIS program gave me access to become a Media Specialist in the local school system. Over the past year and a half, I have worked in Media Centers for both a relatively affluent and demographically diverse high school and a Title I elementary school with almost completely uniform demographics.
I have learned so much from my employment within public schools. While the main thing that I learned is that working in public schools is a calling, and I do not have that calling. More importantly, my work in the schools has disabused me of ideas I had regarding what actual students need to prepare them for life. This begins with the fact that we cannot provide students with the materials they need by asking the students who are already in Public or Academic libraries. We must go into the communities, locate the students are not being served, and find ways to engage with them.
Well designed and implemented Collection Development plans are ideal for meeting the wants and needs of our users