We use LibraryTrac in a high school of about 900. Totally worth it. In a non-pandemic year we use it for 2 primary things:

How many study hall students come and go every block - we use the information to help defend our need to keep our clerk. Monitoring study hall is nearly a full time job
Record each class that visits the library, what teacher, what they do, how many students we serve, and what level of collaboration was involved with the teacher librarians

So we have records to show how many classes we serve but also what our level of involvement was. If a teacher just wanted to bring their class because it's hot and we have air conditioning - we can pull that data. If we developed a project together with them from scratch - we can pull that data.

In this pandemic year we added in the Library Trac pass system. We just reopened the library a few weeks ago and we use Library Trac to monitor that:

Students use the pass system to sign up for a pass to come to the library. There are only 20 spots available so we don't take more than 20 students.
When they get there, they scan a QR code at their table to sign in and enter their table number. Now we know who was here, when, and what table they sat at. This is for contact tracing purposes.

I'm a big fan. I think Library Trac is totally worth it. Especially at the high school level. Outsiders always want to measure what we do by tracking circulation stastics. Our circulation statistics are abysmally low. Library Trac shows what we do all day.

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 8:19 AM Hsiang, Sara <hsiangs@stratk12.org> wrote:

Especially if you are in a high school, can you let me know how it is going?
Head of IT is asking.
Thanks!
Sara

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