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Part F - School Library Media Usage per Typical Week
- Please report the following types of usage of the library media program per typical WEEK. Report data from July 2001-June 2002.
- If annual totals are available, divide the annual total by 36.
- If these figures must be estimated, and it is easier to estimate for a month or a year:
- estimate for a month and divide by four; or
- estimate for a year, and divide by the number of weeks the library media center is open annually.
In our example library there were 150 people who visited
the library as individuals on line F 1a, and 15 groups that visited the library
on line F 1b. Count visits to a computer lab only if the media specialist
supervises the computer lab.
Of those who visited the library, 45 individuals on line F 2a are counted as
Information skills instruction contacts. There were 7 groups on line F 2b that were in the library for instruction on
information skills.
Line F 6, Interlibrary Loans Received from Any Other Library Outside Your
District is 50 in a typical week for our example library. This number includes items received from the
AEA.
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Type of Usage per Typical Week |
Line |
Number per Week |
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Total Visits to the school library, scheduled or unscheduled, by:
Individuals (students, teachers, administrators, parents, student aides, volunteers, others). Do not count people who are in the LMC in groups |
1a |
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150 people |
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Classes or other groups (e.g., the number of classes or groups of teachers, administrators, parents, or students touring your library) |
1b |
15 groups |
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Information skills instruction contacts,
scheduled or unscheduled, for purposes like locating information,
citations, copyright/plagiarism, critical thinking, evaluating Internet
sources, or note-taking by: |
2a |
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45 people |
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Classes or other groups (e.g., the number of groups of teachers, administrators, parents, or students touring your library) |
2b |
7 groups |
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Total circulation of materials, including all formats, in a typical week |
3 |
300 |
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In-library use of materials in a typical week (estimate based on re-shelving count) |
4 |
400 |
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Inter-library loans to any other library, outside of your district, in a typical week |
5 |
1 |
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Inter-library loans received from any other library, outside of your district, in a typical week. Contact your AEA for average circulation to your building. |
6 |
50 |
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Inter-library loans to any other library, in your district, in a typical week |
7 |
30 |
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Inter-library loans received from any other library, in your district, in a typical week |
8 |
40 |
Definitions:
Typical Week
A "typical week" is a time that is neither unusually busy or unusually
slow. Avoid holiday times, vacation times for key staff, or days when unusual events are taking place in the community or in the library.
Choose a week in which the library is open its regular hours. Include five consecutive calendar days.
Circulation
CIRCULATION TRANSACTION. The
total circulation of all library materials of all types, including
renewals. Count all materials in all formats that are charged out for use
outside the library. Count interlibrary loan transactions only for items
borrowed and checked out to customers. Do not include items checked out
to another library. (Do not use circulation multipliers. For example,
if a film is checked out and shown to 30 people, count 1 circulation, not
30. Do not report "automatic renewals" as circulation.) Items
which are packaged together as a unit (e.g., 10 audio tapes, 3 video
tapes, 4 compact disks) and are generally checked out as a unit, should be
counted as one physical unit.
In-Library Use
Report the total number of materials used in the library, but not checked out. This includes reference books, periodicals and all other library materials used within the library.
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