- In selecting learning resources, professional personnel will evaluate available resources and curriculum needs and will consult reputable, professionally prepared aids to selection, and other appropriate sources. The actual resource will be examined whenever possible.
- Selection is an ongoing process that should include how to remove materials no longer appropriate and how to replace lost and worn materials still of educational value.
- Reviews of proposed acquisitions will be sought in the literature of reputable professional organizations and other reviewing sources recognized for their objectivity and wide experience.
- Materials will be examined by professional staff to the extent necessary or practicable to apply criteria.
- Building media center materials selection will be coordinated by the building media specialist and involve teachers and curriculum specialists.
- Materials for media centers are selected by the professional media staff with due regard to suggestions from the faculty, parents, and students. Final selection is made by the media specialists of the school in which the center is housed. Professionally recognized reviewing periodicals, standard catalogs, and other selection aids are used by the media specialists and the faculty to guide them in their selection.