[LM_NET] SEC: Are your circulation numbers up?

[edward nizalowski <enizalowski@NVCS.STIER.ORG>]

My general impression regarding circulation is that there has been quite
a surge that has been building over the last few years.  I have 538
students at my high school and I have nearly 1000 books that have been
signed out to date.  The Twilight series and the books by Ellen Hopkins
have certainly been major contributors, but I have been seeing quite a
variety of books "fly off the shelf".  

 

When I do my general reading orientation for my 8th graders I have been
seeing quite a change.  Normally when I ask which class members like to
read, I may have a few timid hands come up.  The "reading is boring"
group almost always predominates.  The reaction I had this year was just
the opposite.  

 

I would like to know if you are experiencing something similar and to
what do you attribute this change?

 

            

Ed Nizalowski, SMS

Newark Valley High School

Newark Valley, NY

enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org

 

"It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had
handed me a five gallon bucket of water.  I drank and drank.  The only
reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman.  I was a
loser, but she showed me the power of reading."

 

Gary Paulsen, from the biography by Edith Hope Fine

 

Currently reading Looking for Lucy Buick by Rita Murphy

 

 


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