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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a crime that a school library's collection should consist of 300 books. Unfortunately, I suspect part of the problem is the bureaucracy. Where are all the books intended for school libraries warehoused? How are they making their way to each school? And the idea of book donations, while a good one, is not as easy as just giving books. There are several processes involved in adding books to a library's collection involving cataloging, indexing, etc. as well as equipment to maintain the collection. Basically, it's going to take more coordination and more money. I think the call for people to reach out to the Director of Library Programs is a good one offered up by PP.  [/quote]

I'm the PP who suggested reaching out to the Central Office - a huge part of the problem it seems is that books ARE NOT warehoused anywhere and they ARE NOT making their ways to schools, because there the DCPS budget includes no specific line item for library materials. Each school is on their own, and they are relying heavily on donations or on school finding money in their budgets to purchase materials.

So another thing that we should all do, is write to our councilmembers and encourage them to include a line-item in the DCPS budget for library materials![/quote]

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