Materials+Support

=**__Materials Support__**=

**Team Leaders: Fran Roscello and Karen Sperrazza **
=**__Recommendations: __**= 


 * Critical Issues: **
 * **Instructional needs **
 * **Recreational needs **


 * Goal: **
 * Provide access to a robust collection of print and digital resources to instructional purposes for the entire school community. **


 * Students and teachers need access to a robust collection of print and digital resources that have been curriated for their instructional purposes. Students also need access to a wide variety of reading materials that reflects their diverse backgrounds and interests to satisfy their recreational reading needs. **


 * Objectives: **
 * **Retain funding for library materials that is separate from software and textbook support and ensure these funds are being spent as they are intended **
 * **Allow for eContent library purchasing **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review the requirement for ILL policy for reimbursable funds (most eContent is licensed and cannot be provided to others through ILL) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Databases are available through statewide purchase, how can eBooks be procured in the same way **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Suggested Discussion Items **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Definition of “library books” to meets today’s needs. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Current funding amounts are not sufficient to provide necessary resources **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is a lack of oversight in how these funds are spent - Is there an audit system that could be used to determine if schools are spending these funds as they are intended? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Balancing curation with instructional needs (CCLS - text complexity, recreational reading, and leveling) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beyond print resources - eContent **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Expand NOVELny to include an eBook collection **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Determine how NY school libraries can leverage economies of scale through statewide eBook purchasing **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If state purchases eBooks there is no need to worry about ILL to other New York State school libraries **


 * NYSED Links**
 * http://www.p12.nysed.gov/facplan/articles/technolo.html

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"Libraries can serve as a hub for training, research, independent learning and global communications for teachers, students, and the community at large."


 * http://www.p12.nysed.gov/technology/library/libmataid.html Q AND A
 * https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vpV9fB2pHKh7ykX2E4EFM3ZI-NqJ-AD7FbjJpZZq6Hs/edit?usp=sharing