Section XVI - Wright Branch Library

Children’s Recreational Computers

Revised August 2012

General Comments

This collection consists of educational and recreational computer programs for children in pre-school through sixth grade. The programs cover such areas as reading skills, math, geography, history, problem solving, spelling, science, rhyming, matching of shapes and sizes, and computer skills. Many games are now accessed on the Internet.

Development Plan

The primary goal of this collection is to meet the informational, educational, and recreational needs of young people by providing a balanced collection of programs. In order to meet this goal, the Library:

  • strives to provide a broad range of programs to meet the variety of likes and needs of all children.
  • strives to provide a collection of high quality programs that meet the needs of pre-school through sixth grade patrons.
  • purchases for library use only.
  • purchases programs where commercialism is minimal, not distracting from theme or content.

Influencing Factors

Purchases and buying patterns are determined in large part by:

  • system requirements.
  • current popular demand.
  • patron requests.
  • availability of new programs or updated versions.
  • budget constraints.

Retention/Weeding

  • Programs are directly loaded onto computers and do not sustain damage from use. Programs are updated on all machines if they change significantly.

 

Collection Development Policy
Adopted January 13, 2000

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