Accountability is fundamental in any organisation, system or facility.  School libraries are no exception.  After reading Chapter 4 of A Manual for Developing Policies and Procedures in Australian School Library Resource Centres it is clear that and Ordering policy does not exist however we do have and follow Ordering Procedures.  In my current school anyone can complete a electronic purchase order to request a resource. Being such a large school, a P-12 college, we have many different people that are responsible for and are able to authorise the purchase orders.  A teacher librarian and other Head of Departments can authorise anything up to the value of  $500 but anything over that needs to be authorised by a member of Leadership.   A part of the purchase order is to assign a department that is responsible for the resource and ultimately which budget it will be coming from. Often, although the Head of Departments can authorise, they do turn to the Teacher Librarian to complete the purchasing. Once the purchase order has been approved by the appropriate person the order can then be placed. A new concept that our school is still getting use to is ensuring that all non perishable orders, no matter which department it has been purchased from, comes to the library upon arrival so that it can be checked and accessioned into our Library Management System.  This is a practise that we are trying to make a routine as accountability, as well as the worth of resource and being able to locate and find resources at all times is extremely important.  Until this is achieved, the teacher librarian having a full record that can be compared to the finance department is not possible or happening within my school.  The teacher librarian does work in close consultation with the finance department, who will send on all invoices and purchase orders once complete.  The finance department regularly update all departments of the current expenditure and the amount remaining in the budget.

Cooney et al. (2017).  A manual for developing policies and procedures in australian school library resource centres. 2nd Edition  Retrieved from https://asla.org.au/resources/Documents/Website%20Documents/Policies/policies-procedures-manual_ed2.pdf