Nonfiction Numbers

As promised, the numbers have been crunched and all I can say is

 

 

I can hardly believe my eyes!  I compared the one week checkouts of the new nonfiction section with those of a one week checkout during the same time frame last year.  If you recall, I did the same for the Fiction redo. (Read all about it here.) In that post, I raved about the 60% increase in book check outs.  Well, in the words on Bachman Turner Overdrive,

 

 

 

 

So here are the numbers that I found when I ran Collection Circulation Reports in Destiny for corresponding time frames.  I chose the week of 12/9/13-12/13/13 to match with current year's week of 12/8/14-12/12/14.

 



Dewey Range	# of items checked out	# of items checked out	Increase in items checked out
	12/9-13/13	12/8-12/14
000-099	0	9	9
100-199	1	2	1
200-299	1	3	2
300-399	6	31	25
400-499	2	3	1
500-599	22	63	41
600-699	23	65	42
700-799	12	92	80
800-899	6	26	20
900-999	4	48	44
Total Checkouts	77	342	265

 



No your eyes are NOT deceiving you!!!  That is over a 340% increase in book check outs in the nonfiction section. 

I realize that there is a novelty factor (as with the fiction section redo) but it still makes we want to do this:

The way I see it, novelty or not, the books are in the hands of kids and not sitting on the shelves and that can NEVER be a bad thing.