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THE COOPERATIVE FILM LIBRARY
has a larger budget for school supplies. The ability to pay can be based on the average daily attendance of the school or the number of teachers employed in the system.
How the money is actually raised by the school system or the individual school to pay its membership is also worthy of some consideration. Some schools have sought to finance their cooperative membership by securing funds through carnivals, P.T.A., or Community Club gifts, student body funds, etc. It would be much better for the money to come from tax funds. The school board should finance the total cost of membership for a number of reasons. In the first place, this puts the library on a sound financial basis. In the second place, having the money contributed by the school district, makes the audio-visual program an integral part of the educational process. Under such an arrangement, audio-visual aids would be accepted as a necessary, almost mandatory part of classroom equipment. Furthermore, the inevitable expansion of the library would meet with fewer obstacles if the funds came from the district rather than from the P.T.A., or other sources.
Selecting Needed Films
Once the contractual and legal aspects of the cooperative are completed and a director chosen, the selection of the films is the next step. It goes without saying that films should be selected in terms of curriculum needs. The various curriculum areas should be studied and a tentative list of films drawn, up to correlate with them. This list will be used by the teacher committees in selecting films to be previewed. The time spent by committees in previewing and selecting films is very worthwhile, for there is no better way to acquaint teachers with the kinds and types of films available. It is a good plan to use as many teachers as possible on these committees, as it will help to interest them in the new library and acquaint them with its contents. A form, similar to Fig. 1, should be used to guide commitees in selecting films,
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