<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Our auditor counseled us to not depreciate our book collection because they essentially retain their full value until we remove them from our collection. We did depreciate them for a number of years--I can't remember off the top of my head the number of years we used--but it was a major pain involving spreadsheets and was a big waste of time. Since there's no tax benefit to a public agency calculating depreciation the only advantage would be to more accurately assess your current assets values. We determined that it wasn't worth the fuss and fortunately our auditor was in full agreement.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>~Su</div><div><br></div><div>Su Liudahl</div>
<div>Library Director<br>Creswell Library / Lane Library District<br>64 West Oregon Avenue<br>PO Box 366<br>Creswell, OregonĀ 97426<br>(541) 895-3053</div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:53 PM Joelle Scrbacic <<a href="mailto:guitarjoelle@gmail.com">guitarjoelle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Is there a standard depreciation rate school libraries use? How about for specific categories like library books, textbooks, technology, instruments, etc.?</blockquote></div>