Sharing your annual school library data with stakeholders is a great way to tell your school library's story and advocate for the importance of the work you do all year to promote literacy and positively impact student achievement.
Share this report with SIT, administrators, and/ or via school social media for all stakeholders to see. Not only is this data excellent to have for the end of the school year, but it might be useful for the beginning of the next school year as you share the importance of program specifics or plan goals for the upcoming year.
What Data Could You Share?
What you share is entirely up to you and what you would like to highlight for the school year. Here are some examples of what data you could share (if you have other ideas, please share in the comments):
- Number of total books circulated for the year (Destiny Library Manager Report)
- Average age of the collection (Follett Titlewise Report)
- Top three books circulated during the year (Destiny Library Manager)
- Number of books added to the collection (Destiny Library Manager Report)
- Number of books removed from the collection (Destiny Library Manager Report)
- Dollar amount spent on books (Purchase Orders/ Invoice Totals)
- Dollar amount received from fundraising/ grants/ bookfair (Records/ Bookkeeper)
- Number of classes taught (calendar)
- Number of students who visited (sign in/ Google Form results)
- Number of programs offered/ student participants of programs (sign in/ Google Form results)
- Canva (the infographics templates are ideal for this!)
- Google Slides
- Book Creator (flip book)
- Video (use your phone or an iPad and upload in a video editing tool of your choice like WeVideo, Loom, Screencast-O-Matic, iMovie, Adobe Express, etc)
