It's All About The Numbers!

As promised, here is the data that we have been sharing at our inservice meetings and that we shared at Common Ground.

Total Circulations

November 18, 2013-April 17, 2014  9103

November 18, 2014-April 17, 2015  9930

Total Increase In Circulations  827 or 8.3%

Let's look at fiction and graphic novels first.

 

 

As you can see by the graphs above, Fiction and Graphic Novel Circulation has increased by @ 50 titles each.  While running the Destiny report to see what titles still needed to be assigned genre classifications, we discovered a wealth of information that helped up disaggregate the data further.

Destiny Title/Copy Data Report Findings – Fiction

1409 titles were listed on the exported report

533 (37.8% of the fiction collection) titles had increases in circulation over the previous year’s circulations

Of those 533 titles,

•315 (59%) had no circulations during the 2013-2014 school year

•257 (48.2%) increased by 3 circulations over the previous year (circulations of 1 or 2 only were not included in this number)

•139 (26%) increased by 5+ circulations over the previous year (circulations of 4> were not included in this number)

 

Top 3 Fiction Genre Classifications with title circulation increases were:
 

Just Like Me (67)
Fantasy (43)
Humor/Sports Fiction (27) tie
(*Note 106 titles are not yet assigned location fields in Destiny)

And now for the nonfiction...

Destiny Title/Copy Data Report Findings – Nonfiction

 

3893 titles were listed on the exported report

952 (24.5% of the nonfiction collection) titles had increases in circulation over the previous year’s circulations

Of those 952 titles,

•700 (73.5%) had no circulations during the 2013-2014 school year

•266 (27.9%) increased by 3 circulations over the previous year

•120 (12.6%) increased by 5+ circulations over the previous year

Top 5 Nonfiction Genre Classifications with title circulation increases were

Animals (119)
Science (90) – Top 3 subcategories: Weather 20, Inventors/Inventions 25, Experiments 13
Sports (74) – 25 were biographies now located in the sports classification
What Can I Make? (65)
Native Americans (39) – Discovered by the 4th grade teachers

(*Note: 83 titles are not yet assigned location fields in Destiny)

 As I look at the nonfiction data, I tried to draw some conclusions about why there are such large jumps in certain areas even though we have weeded so many books. For the 900's, the only conclusion I can draw is that they have been impacted by many of the biographies now being grouped with other genres. For example, I see MANY sports biographies heading out the door now that they are grouped with their respective sport. The "What Can I Make" has been a popular location to visit which may account for an increase in the 700's which also may be impacted by The Arts section as I am seeing dance books moving.

 

 

Circulation (as of 4/17/15) has increased by 8.3% which may not seem too terribly significant BUT over 1000 books (700 nonfiction and 315 fiction titles) that were NEVER checked out last year circulated this year which means my collection is experiencing a rejuvenation because my students and teachers can quickly and easily find what they want and related materials.

  I look forward to gathering some more data at the end of the school year to share at our June inservice.  I am loving the feedback and questions that have been asked and shared.