NYC School Librarian Guidebook: Annual Reports
Resources to examine our inherent bias, promote personal awareness, and help us build collections for our students that reflect themselves and the world around them.
NYCSLS Examples of Annual Reports
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The Bay School - PS/MS 105Q End Term Report End Term Report on a Robin Hood Library highlighting "Good News," "Needs Improvement," "Looking Forward," "Suggestions" and "Goals".
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M.S. 137 School of American Heroes Adapted from Stephanie Rosalia's annual report template, this is an annual report documenting library usage including open access, classes scheduled, circulation, periods of non-library usage, and days of non-library usage.
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Stuyvesant High School Annual Report A comprehensive annual report in Word (converted to a PDF) documenting the "progress of activities, collection development, staffing, curriculum connections, and user trends during a busy and productive academic year."
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Democracy Prep Endurance Middle School An annual report developed as a Google Doc (converted to a PDF) documenting Democracy Prep Endurance Middle School's first year with a full-time librarian turning a "room with books into a library."
Shannon Harris has created a template for a Quarterly Report that you could modify to make an annual report. You may want to consider adding some additional pieces of information such as:
- MyLibraryNYC participation and circulation
- Professional development
- Attended and provided
- Family Outreach/Programing
- PTA involvment
- Committees
- Student volunteers
- Author visits
- Quotes from students, teachers, and families
- Partnerships
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