Wouldn’t it be great if you could just buy something purely because you like it.
As a teacher librarian it is very important to develop a process for the selection of resources. Collaboratively with your learning community, moving through the step by step process should help discern the appropriateness, relevance, worthiness affordability of the resource.
As I attempted to formulate a process and think about sorts of questions that needed to be asked I could see the process unfold. The first attempt is definitely not perfect.
