According to David Calender, Library/Media Department Facilitator for the School District of Lancaster, the district would do well to allocate funds to each school library from a central source, rather than channeling them through each school principal. Calender asserted that funding for certain beneficial yearly purchases—like graphic novels—can be easily redirected by principals to other competing priorities. Some principals, however, do not share Calender’s assessment…

If Library/Media Department Facilitator David Calender has his way, control of library budgets in the School District of Lancaster will shift from the hands of individual principals to a centralized, district-level process…