Hi Matt,

We are a school of 1270 students. This is my third school year and this is our first year with a block schedule. The 84 minute period and a culture change in our English department to embrace independent choice reading has had a significant impact on our circulation numbers this school year. Additionally, we also have a multi-collection with 5-20 copies of popular texts used for book clubs. (We do have a book room for English teachers, which does not get included in our circulation numbers.) Last year's numbers were impacted by 40% of our students being remote. These numbers do not include audio/ebooks and are from 9/1 to 2/13.

2017-18: 2868

2018-19: 2728

2019-20: 2315

2020-21: 1829

2021-22: 5,757

If you're looking for more information about changes we've made this year, let me know. While we've put forth several new initiatives to increase circulation, they pale in comparison to the impact of our block schedule and choice reading.

Take care,

Jessica

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:31 AM Pellegrino, Janice <pellegrino@stratk12.org> wrote:

Hi Matt -

I moved districts so this is only my second year in this building. Our student population is about 1050.

I was very surprised when I just ran the circ figures because the student body, as a whole, doesn't seem to have a huge group of passionate readers, yet our numbers look pretty good.

2016-17: 2959
2017-18: 2094
2018-19: 2828
2019-20: 3212
2020-21: 1233 (we had a ton of students 100% remote learning plus for a good part of the year our kids who were attending in person were divided into cohorts where they came in only two days per week and the other cohort came two different days.)
2021-22 (as of 2/14/22): 1838

I think there are a few factors which are influencing this:

1. Our students love graphic novels/manga. Our 2021-22 circ figure (to date) is 1838, 505 of which are circs of graphics/manga.

2. Our English teachers have been bringing their classes down to the library every few months to do book exchange.

3. The English department books are also cataloged within our Destiny system, and the teachers typically circulate the required English texts to their students from the classroom. So while we're not seeing those students nor checking out the English department books ourselves in the library, we're scooping up those circ figures in addition to the circs from the library collection itself.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:25 AM Matthew Cadorette <MCadorette@waterfordschools.org> wrote:

My superintendent just asked for library circulation numbers.

Does anyone else have these on hand for their school?

Waterford has about 800+/- students.

Just wanted some way to compare in case I’m asked.

Waterford High School Library

Circulation numbers for print and video

Sept. 1, - June 1

2017-2018 - 1,078

2018-2019 - 1,594

2019-2020 - 1,175

2020-2021 - 1,429

Sept. 1 2021 - Feb 13, 2022

2021-2022 - 1,146

Thanks,

Matt

Matthew Cadorette

Librarian

Waterford High School

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Waterford, CT 06385

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