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COLLECTIONS CHECKLIST — FUTURE -FOCUSED <br />1. Provide a process for community members to participate in the selection of materials, including when <br />they lend expertise to collection topics. <br />2. Allocate funds for purchasing materials and expend them based on the Collection Management Plan <br />and other plans directing library activities. To measure this, determine materials expenditures per <br />capita (see tables9). <br />3. Ensure that the collection reflects the ethnic, cultural, and language diversity of the community. <br />4. Track and report statistics on various formats for currency and relevancy based on statistics and data <br />that reflect collections and circulation statistics per capita and turnover rates (see tables on State <br />Library website) as well as what is needed for annual reporting and planning. <br />5. Maintain an appropriate collection size based on the library's legal service area population (LSAP). <br />6. Include unique items that, when loaned through the library, make it economically feasible for <br />community members to "try before they buy," allowing sharing of resources at a community level. <br />Some Colorado examples include maker spaces with equipment for idea exploration, creation, and <br />experimentation; non-book/non-media, recreational material (e.g., bicycles, musical instruments, <br />fishing poles, cake pans); educational equipment (telescopes, robots, microscopes); home tools <br />(electricity use monitors, seeds, garden tools), and locally created content (e -books, music, audio <br />stories, art). <br />7. Remove fines and fees on children's material to encourage the dynamic use of collections by children. <br />State Library research indicates that fines and fees are a barrier to low-income families' use of the <br />public library. See the whitepaperl° for further information. <br />8. Follow the best practices of the Society of American Archivists 11, if the library houses local <br />history/archive collections. <br />9 http://www.colibrarystandards.org/collections/ <br />10 http://spellproject.weebly.com/uploads/1 /5/3/3/15331602/spellwhitepaperfinal.pdf <br />11 http://www2.archivists.org <br />7 <br />