End of Year Stats from Bobbette!

So first I need to apologize for once again being a bad blogger.  School has been out for 2 weeks and as I wrote in my last post, the first week was full of meetings. 

This past week was full of construction, or rather, deconstruction.  My old concrete porch has been sagging a few inches each year.  But the time has never been right and the stars have never quite aligned for the start of "The Great Porch Project".  However, this is the summer that everything has begun to fall in place.  We finally found a contractor willing to tear down the old concrete porch (conveniently built over the gas line entering the house) and rip up the sidewalk. So last week I traded in my laptop and books for work gloves and power tools.  That's right folks.  Believe it or not, I spent the week working with my little brother helping him tear the siding off of the front of my house, ripping out the 4 front windows, reframing and installing 2 new windows, enclosing and framing a wall where the other 2 windows were and TYVEKing the front of the house. I used a table saw, an electric nail gun, slap stapler and tin snips.  I am using sweat equity while I am off this summer to save on some home equity. :-)  You may now call me Bobbette the Builder. (not Wendy because she doesn't seem tough enough-hahaha!)

 

So that will be my big summer project this year.  Fingers crossed that we can get it done before school starts.  This week we are, hopefully, pouring footers so it will be a light week.

 

This week will also be the week that I get the pleasure of covering a fellow librarian's summer library hours during her school's summer enrichment program.  I am really excited about getting to spend time there and hopefully bringing some data and ideas back that I can use to persuade my administration that summer hours would be beneficial for our school too!

 

But before I do any of that I need to fulfill my promise to share the end of year data with you. So here it is:

 

Total Circulations

November 18, 2013-June 1, 2014         11988

November 18, 2014-June 1, 2015         13329

Total Increase In Circulations                 1341 or 11.2%

 

 Fiction Circulation Comparison

November 18, 2013-June 1, 2014         4379

November 18, 2014-June 1, 2015         5215

Increased by 836 checkouts

Graphic Novel Circulation Comparison

November 18, 2013-June 1, 2014         1113

November 18, 2014-June 1, 2015         1240

Increased by 127 checkouts

Destiny Title/Copy Data Report Findings – Fiction

1417 titles were listed on the exported report

625 (44.1% of the fiction collection) titles had increases in circulation over the previous year’s circulations

Of those 625 titles,

•440 (70.4%) had no circulations during the 2013-2014 school year

•131 (20.96%) increased by 3 circulations over the previous year

•231 (36.96%) increased by 5+ circulations over the previous year

Top 3 Fiction Genre Classifications with title circulation increases were:

 

 

Just Like Me (80)

Fantasy (52)

Humor (36)

(*Note: 126 titles are not yet assigned location fields in Destiny)

 

 

 

Destiny Title/Copy Data Report Findings – Nonfiction

3891 titles were listed on the exported report

1085 (27.9% of the nonfiction collection) titles had increases in circulation over the previous year’s circulations

Of those 1085 titles,

•803 (74%) had no circulations during the 2013-2014 school year

•149 (13.7%) increased by 3 circulations over the previous year

•175 (16.1%) increased by 5+ circulations over the previous year

Top 5 Nonfiction Genre Classifications with title circulation increases were:

 

Animals (132)

Science (106) – Top 3 subcategories: Inventors/Inventions 34, Weather 21, Experiments 15

Sports (81) – 27 were biographies now located in the sports classification

What Can I Make? (67)

Who Is? (48) – Discovered by the 3rd grade teachers

(*Note: 227 titles are not yet assigned location fields in Destiny)

 

 

The Bottom Line:

           Circulation has increased by 11.2% which may not seem too terribly significant BUT over 1200 books (800 nonfiction and 400 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.

So exciting that the initial data not only held but increased. Can you see me doing my fist pump?

 

 

 

 

 

    
 

	Increased by 836 checkouts
			Increased by 127 checkouts