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.
