The information in this chapter can be very important as I found out from doing the service learning project. I was really surprised when I discovered that the school media centers here in my county apparently do not have a policy. I only talked to a few of the media coordinators but they all told me the same thing: no they don't have one at the school but there is one for the county. When I examined the one for the county, my goodness, does it lack lots of information. The three main procedures it does cover is Media Advisory Committees (appointed by the school principal), selecting and purchasing materials (done by this committee along with the media coordinator), and finally, guidelines for when an item is challenged. This last one is not just for the media center; it covers any item in the school--media center, classrooms, etc. In a separate part of the Board Policy is where it talks about computer use in the schools--again, in the classrooms as well as the media centers. There wasn't anything about "weeding" the collection, the difference formats between books and electronic sources, patron behavior, and lots of other things brought out in this chapter.
On a different note, I have had not heard of the Pacific Northwest model of classification. I know ASU uses the LC, and I have been confused by it because it doesn't make any sense to me. I have seen an outline of LC and I have examined a conversion chart like what is mentioned here so I understand the LC a little better but I still like the good ol' Dewey system.
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