I would love to know how you all are creating a culture of reading in your schools and having such success in circulating a high quantity of fiction titles. If you could share your tips that would be great! When I first arrived in NB, 4 years ago, stats were very low. Now we have increased them, but they are still low overall. We have tried theme book displays, making announcements of our monthly themes, promoting books on our Marlin display boards, running contests, etc... We have been fortunate enough to have a change in some of our English classes in that they are now implementing having students have an independent book to read in class which has helped a lot. However, I would still love to see more books circulating! I would also love to know if many of your teachers have their own classroom libraries?

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:20 AM Mr. McKenna <mmckenna@simsburyschools.net> wrote:
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@simsbury.k12.ct.us
(860) 658-0451 x. 161
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