Hi everyone,

While working on our middle school library budgets for next year, the Newington middle school LMSs would love to get some information about the middle school libraries in our DRG to help us advocate for our program's needs. Our major focus is equity and building libraries that better represent the diversity within our schools.

DRG D includes:

Berlin, Bethel, Branford, Clinton, Colchester, Cromwell, East Granby, East Hampton, East Lyme, Ledyard, Milford, Newington (us!), New Milford, North Haven, Old Saybrook, Rocky Hill, Shelton, Southington, Stonington, Wallingford, Waterford, Watertown, Wethersfield, and Windsor.

We are looking to find out some basic info from your Titlewise reports:

Your average collection age
Your collection size
Your items per student
Your % of diverse titles

# of titles falling into African American, Latinx/Hispanic, First Nations, Asian American categories

We really appreciate any information you'd be willing to share with us! You can email us directly as opposed to sharing with the entire ListServ. Your responses will only be used to get a baseline for us to use as comparison data; we will not publish or share your district name or numbers outside our department and our administration.

Thank you,
Nicole Guillet at John Wallace Middle School (nguillet@npsct.org)
and
Nicole Daigle at Martin Kellogg Middle School (ndaigle@npsct.org)

Nicole Guillet (she/her)

Library Media Specialist

John Wallace Middle School

Newington Public Schools

(860) 667-5888 x3208

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