Library staff outline three-year district plan; report expansions to collections and digital offerings
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Summary
Verona Area School District's librarians presented their district library plan progress: collection development, standards-aligned curriculum for K'0 and literacy connections. The team reported a state-provided collection budget, catalog and collaborative projects and described continuing work on representation and access.
District librarians presented a progress report on April 21 describing work under the Verona Area School District's three-year district library plan, which operates under Wisconsin administrative code.
The library team said they oversee nine school libraries serving more than 5,800 students and that district patrons have access to an approximately 125,000-item collection and to Sora, the Wisconsin schools digital library consortium for ebooks and audio. The district reported a state-provided collection budget of roughly $447,000 to allocate across school sites.
Staff described three plan goals: collection development (including targeted selection and deselection), standards and curriculum alignment, and literacy and library connections. Librarians reported having removed older materials during recent deselection work and said they added new titles and increased representation in collections; they also said they are expanding Arabic-language holdings at the high school and improving availability of translated resources.
For standards and curriculum, librarians reported completion of a K-5 scope and sequence aligned to the American Association of School Librarians standards and said they are integrating those lessons with the district's digital citizenship curriculum and the new language-arts materials. For literacy, the librarians highlighted district events such as a Battle of the Books field trip (more than 500 students participated) and a summer book checkout program that allows students to borrow up to 10 books for the summer.
Librarians outlined next steps: continued collection review with attention to representation, expanding co-teaching and collaboration with classroom teachers, and strengthening summer and community literacy programming. They said the district submits a new three-year plan to the state at the end of the current cycle.
No board vote was required for the informational report; board members thanked library staff for the work and for alignment with curriculum review efforts.
