Sunday, December 14, 2014

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.

1 comment:

  1. Congratulations! This is a wonderful thing you have done for your students. LOVING (or at least tolerating) reading is the key. If we can get them hooked, then the sky is the limit! Thanks for sharing the process.

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