Use statistics to market your school library program; areas covered include circulation, budgeting, website counters and end-of-year summary.

1. Market Your School Library Program with Statistics USD #233 Summer Conference Lori Franklin, LMS Olathe East High School

5. Use ** and the appropriate dates P This is a LM 710 report

10. You can copy and paste your pie chart into MS Word and Publisher when you are creating an annual report.

12. Note that your data will appear in proper context if you use the earliest year first when creating your Excel workbook… Before building your chart, highlight the data you want to show.

13. Right click on your chart and choose: Format Chart Area to create a border, change chart colors and make other visual changes for ease of reading.

14. Visuals powerfully speak…

18. A pie chart is another way to visualize a budget to see where you are spending dollars, such as seeing which piece of the pie is the largest. Here, it is easy to see that a large chunk of the budget has been spent on print and electronic materials. Before building your chart, highlight the data you want to show. Here, because we are using a pie chart, we have highlighted data for one year. Column charts, bar graphs or line charts are a better choice for comparison across years.

22. Class Visits

25. Excel Pivot Table also does this… STUD. NATURALIST TAPS WORLD HISTORY WORLD HISTORY TAPS STUD. NATURALIST SPED SPANISH II SOPH ENGLISH SOCIOLOGY SIGN LANGUAGE SCIENCE--PSI SCIENCE--A&P SCIENCE READ 180 QUEST PE MATH INTERNAT'L CULTURES INTERNAT'L ARTS/CUL HEALTH GERMAN GEOGRAPHY FRENCH FASHION ENROLLMET ENGLISH III DRAMA DRAMA DEBATE CP ENGLISH IV COLLEGE READ. CHEMISTRY CAREERS & LIFE PLAN CAREERS CAREER & LIFE PLAN BUSINESS BIOLOGY ART-SCULPTURE ART-PHOTOGRAPHY AP English III AP AMERICAN HIS. AP AMERICAN GOVT. AMERICAN GOVT. AM. GOVT AM HISTORY AM GOVT. ADV. PSYCHOLOGY ACT PLAN ENGLISH III ENROLLMET FASHION FRENCH GEOGRAPHY GERMAN HEALTH INTERNAT'L ARTS/CUL INTERNAT'L CULTURES MATH PE QUEST READ 180 SCIENCE SCIENCE--A&P SCIENCE--PSI SIGN LANGUAGE SOCIOLOGY SOPH ENGLISH SPANISH II SPED STUD. NATURALIST TAPS WORLD HISTORY WORLD HISTORY TAPS STUD. NATURALIST SPED SPANISH II SOPH ENGLISH SOCIOLOGY SIGN LANGUAGE SCIENCE--PSI SCIENCE--A&P SCIENCE READ 180 QUEST PE MATH INTERNAT'L CULTURES INTERNAT'L ARTS/CUL HEALTH GERMAN GEOGRAPHY FRENCH FASHION ENROLLMET ENGLISH III DRAMA

26. Keeping track of visit statistics during A.R.T. and Seminar allows us to show our principal typical library usage during those times. Also – gathering statistics on library programs (such as Media Night for example) could work to your advantage in terms of budget allocations.

30. Last year’s summary report:

31. Summary report, contd.