Mid-year update for Global Academy Library

1. Library Update January 18, 2011

2. Library Overview Total items of all types: 4900 Books available for student checkout: 4380

3. Library Overview Fiction and Easy books 42% of collection 64% of checkouts

4. Library Overview Checkouts in the last 30 days: 870 100+ checkouts most Fridays

5. Library Overview Professional Section 140 titles Practical emphasis Audio Visual Materials 265 DVDs Books with tapes/discs

6. What’s New? Foreign Language 25 Arabic titles 11 Gujarati titles 13 Urdu titles

7. What’s New? Graphic Novels Recon Academy Sports Illustrated Non-fiction

8. What’s New? Reference American Heritage First Dictionary (23) Children’s Thesaurus (11) DK Children’s Illustrated Dictionary (21) DK First Atlas (20)

9. Current projects New fiction Multiple copies of popular titles Book and disc/tape kits

10. Staff Suggestions Helen’s email Application dropped Staff input for planning

11. Staff Suggestions Poetry Dewey 811 149 titles Award Winners 66 Caldecott 53 Newbery

12. Staff Suggestions Additions for older grades Balance reading levels Organization by genre

13. The Future Long Term Plans Textbook tracking and inventory Fiction vs. non-fiction balance Grade and reading levels