[CASL-L] Requesting Print, Fiction Circulation Stats, HS

[Juliann T. Moskowitz]

I work in an independent school. We have about 800 students in grades 9-12. My circ stats are abysmal. As of today there are 140 circs in fiction for the entire year. Our English teachers do assign outside reading but very few students borrow books. Most of our students buy books that they are going to read. Next year I will meet with the English department and remind them to suggest that the students borrow books from our library for their independent read.  Our fiction section is very up to date. I buy most of the well reviewed YA and adult books and I have a very good budget.
Earlier in the year, I posted a question about this topic on the independent school list serv that I am on and there was a lot of commiseration. A lot of teens just don't read. On a related note, my magazines go unread. I can probably count the number of times on one hand that I have seen a student pick up a magazine. I keep cutting the numbers every year.

Juliann T. Moskowitz
Director of Library Media
St. Joseph High School
Trumbull, CT 06611
juliann14 at hotmail.com

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”—Ray Bradbury












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Subject: [CASL-L] Requesting Print, Fiction Circulation Stats, HS

Hi All!

I have an inquisitive, curious building admin who would like to know what print, fiction circulation numbers are like at high school libraries similar to our school's enrollment (approx. 1,400 students) and in our geographic area (Farmington Valley, Hartford County).

For context, we've circulated about 500 fiction titles in print to students and staff this year (2018-19). This is about the same number of similar circulations as last school year (2017-18) for us. I think this admin wants to know if this is typical of other high schools like ours, in order to gauge the level of student interest in reading through this medium.

If you have the available time and will to generate these stats (2017-18 compared to 2018-19 would suffice), and don't mind sharing them with me to share with my curious admin, I'd be very grateful. Thanks for your consideration, and thanks for all you do!

Best,


Mike McKenna, MLS, M.Ed.
Library Media Specialist
Simsbury High School
34 Farms Village Road
Simsbury, CT 06070
mmckenna at simsbury.k12.ct.us<mailto:mmckenna at simsbury.k12.ct.us>
(860) 658-0451 x. 161
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