Cooperative Collection Development (CCD)

The School Library System of Genesee Valley BOCES has established a Cooperative Collection Development Program with its member libraries in accordance with the Commissioner's Regulations for Education section 90.18(c)(1). Cooperative Collection Development (CCD) is defined as the allocation, acquisition, management and maintenance of specialized resource collections which will mutually benefit all participating member libraries. CCD grants are available as seed money to fund the core of a new collection; additional development will be funded through the member library’s regular collection development.

Management of the CCD holdings of the region will be facilitated by the Coordinator of the School Library System (SLS) as well as SLS staff. The following cataloging guidelines are to be followed so that CCD holdings can be extracted from members’ catalogs. CCD holdings will be cataloged as regular items within the member library’s catalog with the follow additions:

• 591 #a = Year of purchase
• 591 #b = School Library System for the grant funded books
• 591 #c = Can be left blank or filled
• 591 #d = Enter “CCD” here for all CCD collection books

Successful CCD grants will address an area of need identified during an inspection of the overall collections of the region. In addition, grants that are aligned to New York state standards and show collaboration with classroom teachers to meet needs of identified units within the curriculum will be given preference. Grants can only be submitted by certified school library media specialists from member libraries.
Depending on the funding being available, the School Library System will allocate $3,000 for CCD grants each year. There will be two types of grants available. Start-up grants can be requested for either $500 or $1,000 to begin development of a newly identified area. Grants requesting the $1,000 level will require additional evidence of collaboration between member libraries or with classroom teachers to identify a critical need. Refresh grants will provide libraries who can show evidence of continual collection development in an existing CCD area with an additional $250 to purchase updated materials.

Contact:
Colleen Stedman, SLS Secretary
Phone: (585)344-7946 or (585)658-7946
Email: cstedman2@gvboces.org