Andrew N.

Hoang

MEDT 6461 Budget Project

Proposed Three-Year Budget for 2016-2017 / 2017-2018/ 2018-2019

Pallet Town is located in a small suburban community with a student
population between 550 and 600. The school occupies an old building but is due to
move into its new facility within the next year. Currently, the media center lacks a
complete collection of books to address the needs of its student population. Pallet
Towns media center receives approximately $5,000 annually. Because technology
and software services are provided and administered at the county level, the goal is
to increase the overall collection to include more materials that support the
curriculum, non-fiction, and to add to the recreational reading needs of the
students, fiction. The ultimate goal is to have at least 10 current titles per student.
Pallet Towns principal, Professor Oak, is focused on the schools objective to create
an environment geared towards preparing all of its students to be college ready and
to participate in early enrollment courses at the local community college. He
supports the media program and wants to make sure that the media program is
putting technology into the hands of the students and providing resources that will
support student preparation for education at the post-secondary level. In order to
raise additional funds, the media center holds two annual book fairs, during the fall
and spring, to help purchase additional books and print resources.

Print Materials
Books
Periodicals &
Newspaper
Subscriptions

20162017

20172018

20182019

TOTAL

$2500

$1500

$1000

$5000

$500

$500

$500

$1500

$1000

$1500

$2500

$200
$300

$200
$300

$200
$300

$600
$900

$500

$150
$200

$500

$150
$1200

$1250

$150
$1250

$1250

$150
$3750

$1000

$1000

$1000

$3000

Digital Materials
e-books
Supplies
Printer Toner
Misc.
Equipment
Video Camcorder
Production
Equipment
Green Screen
Amazon Kindles
Technology Support
(Spent)
Library Software

Andrew N. Hoang

Fundraising
Scholastic Book
Fair

MEDT 6461 Budget Project

+$1250

+$1250

+$1250

+$3750

$6250

$6250

$6250

$18750

Budget Rationale:

Books
o Increase overall collection of library titles to achieve goal of 10 current
titles per student
o Maintain genre-based categorization. Review circulation records and
purchase sequels to popular book series or adding more genres as
needed.
Periodicals & Newspaper Subscriptions
o Supports GPS Literacy Standards Grades 6-8
L6-8RH2 Key Ideas and Details: Determine the central ideas or
information of a primary or secondary source; provide an
accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or
opinions.
L6-8RH4 Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words
and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary
specific to domains related to history/social studies.
L6-8RH5 Craft and Structure: Describe how a text presents
information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
L6-8RH6 Craft and Structure: Identify aspects of a text that
reveal an authors point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded
language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
L6-8RH7 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Integrate visual
information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or
maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
L6-8RH8 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Distinguish among
fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text.
E-books
o The new building and media center will have access to more computer
stations, iPad Minis, and laptop computers to help students access
digital media.
o Over the next three years, through grants with Amazon.com, the
school will purchase Kindles for student circulation and expand on the
collection of e-books to help address the needs of the student body,
both fiction and non-fiction.
o E-books allow for simultaneous access
o The integration of this technology into the hands of student supports
the schools mission to prepare students for future work and research
at the post-secondary level.
Supplies

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MEDT 6461 Budget Project

Printer toner, labels, laminate, and other products call under critical
items that are needed to support and enhance the school library media
center program.
Equipment
o The need for a new video camera, green screen, and video production
equipment will support the schools broadcast and news shows. The
new school facility will have an audio/video room dedicated to the
morning and afternoon broadcast and will need equipment to furnish
and support its operation.
Software Support
o The local county already spends these funds to maintain the Destiny
Library circulation system as well as other database and catalog
systems.
o

Scholastic Book Fair

o Additional funds can be generated from the fall and spring
administration of a schoolwide book fair. Funds can be allocated to a
variety of media center needs but is primarily focused on purchasing
additional books and furnishings through the partnership with
Scholastics Books.