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Here are links to the "nuts and bolts" of managing a school library: whether budgeting, automating, reporting or managing the personnel. Many of the systems, companies, and services are international; some links will be made to locations outside of Canada.
Collection Management - Facilities - Human Resources Management - Library Automation - School Library Statistics - Budget & Inventory

Collection Management

Cataloguing and Classification

Dewey Decimal Collection tour. Easy, graphic introduction to the main system used to organize "anything under the sun". Uses Flash Player.
http://www.oclc.org/dewey/about/ddctour/index.htm

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2002 ed. Available in print from CLA.
http://www.clatoolbox.ca/marketplace/clabooks.htm#aacr

Library Cataloguing aids. Halifax Regional Library, N.S.
All you need to catalogue or classify in Canada.
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/allegrow/cat.htm


Evaluating resources

Guidelines for Evaluation of Learning Resources. Calgary Board of Education, 1998.
http://www.cbe.ab.ca/sss/SSSpdf/guidelin.pdf


Facilities

Library Alive! Rose Dotten, Teaching Librarian, Ontario School Library Association. 2002.
Detailed analysis of criteria for building or re-designing a school library facility.
http://www.clatoolbox.ca/slip/library-alive.pdf

School Libraries in Canada: Temples of the Mind; School Library Facilities. 1999, vol. 19 No. 1. A good collection of articles on managing space.
Link to table of contents - available in print.
http://gateway1.uvic.ca/slic/191.html

National Clearinghouse for Educational facilities - a U.S. site with links to pages of information on School library Centres.
http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/libraries.cfm


Human Resources Management

Volunteer Management

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Volunteers: Policies and Procedures. 2000
A thorough collection of documents pertaining to the rights and responsibilities of schools, principals and volunteers designed for any form of voluntary contribution.
http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/policies_procedures/procedures/procedures.htm
Go to PR555SCO.


Library Automation

10 Steps to Library Automation. Created by Kawartha-Pine Ridge Board Library Resource Centre staff (headed by Liz Kerr) in Ontario to provide guidance for the automation of school libraries.
http://www.pcbe.edu.on.ca/BoardInfo/Services/Educ/LRC/docs/10steps.PDF

Survey of Library Automation Systems. An extensive list compiled by the Albany Research Centre for SOLO, a librarians' list-serve, of companies and libraries willing to testify to their use. Site links to other resources and articles on automation.
http://www.alrc.doe.gov/library/autosurv.html


School Library Statistics

People For Education Annual Tracking Reports. This Ontario education watch-dog group of parents and other advocates for public education tracks the results of funding cuts to school libraries, among other programs.
http://www.peopleforeducation.com/tracking.html

Elementary and Secondary Schools: the Role, Challenges and Financial Conditions of School and School Library Resources in Canada. 2001
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/publications/14/index-e.html

National Core Library Statistics Program, 1996 report.
Next report to include statistics on School Libraries in Canada.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/r3/f1/enclsp.pdf
 

Budget & Inventory

Collection Development Plan, Trafalgar Castle School, Whitby, Ontario, 2002.
Presents a plan for collection development and budgeting based on a detailed rationale and mission statement for the library in this private girls' school.
http://www.clatoolbox.ca/slip/cdplan.pdf