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Sunflower Action Plan for School Library Systems 2008

ADVOCACY - Getting the ACTION started

• Introduction
• What are the Issues?
  • Budget Hearing on Elementary and Secondary Education
• Contact NY Decision Makers
• How can I frame my message?
  • School Libraries Do Make a Difference to KIDS Outcomes
  • 21st Century Skills, the Workforce and School Libraries
• System Director's Legislative Visits Resources
• Brochures & Flyers
• Strategies
• Testimony Forms & Samples
• Advocacy Links
• AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner
• Survey Results of School Libraries Count!

 

School Library Systems – by the NUMBERS

School Library Systems in New York:

• Deliver services to over 3,000,000 students
• Serve 4808 school library media centers
• Provide resources to 698 public and 546 nonpublic school districts statewide through SHARING, SAVING, and EQUITABLE ACCESS.
• Provide inter-library loan of information resources, including 1,127,172+ SHARED resources in 2005-2006.
• The average School Library has just 25 periodical subscriptions, but School Library Systems provide shared access to 29,052 serial titles and 163,709 serials.
• NOVEL databases provided through School Library Systems offer thousands of full text newspapers and magazines to students and teachers in schools, many with no other access options
• School Library Systems SHARED a pool of 32,541,200 monographs in 2005-2006.
• School Library Systems provided 11,629,109 database searches in 2004 along with another 30,000 searches for teachers and librarians.
• 80,085,246 documents were retrieved by students and teachers using system supported databases in the same year.
• One regional School Library System documented 1,000,000 database searches in a single school year, while other systems supported an average of nearly 200,000
• Dividing the annual state funding for School Library Systems by just the combined number of interlibrary loans and database searches, the cost per transaction is just 48 cents!
• The average number of interlibrary loans supported by one School Library System in New York on 2005-2006 is 13,029.
• Over 547,000 resources were SHARED because of just one regional School Library System in one year. Individual systems share between 1,000 and 90,000 library resources yearly SAVING the cost of purchasing the shared resources.
• School Library Systems provided free or low cost in service training for 43,721 SLMS and teachers in 2138 workshops in 2005-2006, boosting instructional quality and student performance.
• Without the School Library System, every number on this page would be ZERO.
• With low cost database offerings, connections to New York’s Online Virtual Electronic Library (NOVEL), and inter-library sharing, every dollar of public funding invested in School Library Systems returns $3.00 of resource value.

October 2007
MBR/SLSA