[kids-lib] Statistics for Ready to Read and Youth Programs

[Hicks, Doris]

We are having a difficult time trying to think of ways to collect the statistics needed for our reports on Ready to Read funded programs as well as other youth programs in 2015, we would like to know how other libraries are going to handle this.  We urgently need to get your helpful ideas, since our first early literacy Ready-to-Read funded program is scheduled on January 2, and the other programs follow closely behind.  Thank you for any help you can give us.  Here is the list of statistics I compiled; if you know of others that I have left out, please let me know.

Early Literacy
For the Library’s statistics, we count how many people total (any age) attended .  For Ready to Read reporting, we will only report how many YOUTH attended each grant funded project.  Also estimate how many in each category:
Birth-Preschool
Kindergarten-3rd grade
4th grade – 5th grade
6th grade – 8th grade
9th grade – 12th grade
Total youth birth - 12th grade
What percentage of these youth do you estimate participated in your grant funded early literacy project with an adult?

SRP
For the Library’s statistics, we count how many people total (any age) attended .  For Ready to Read reporting, we will only report how many YOUTH attended each grant funded project.  Also estimate how many in each category:
Birth-Preschool
Kindergarten-3rd grade
4th grade – 5th grade
6th grade – 8th grade
9th grade – 12th grade
Total youth birth - 12th grade
**We need to keep track of how many in each category sign up for a reading log in 2015, and we can use that as a proportional guide for our estimate of how many in each category attend the weekly events.

What percentage of these youth do you estimate participated in your grant funded summer reading project with an adult?


Doris Hicks
Albany (Oregon) Public Library
Youth Services Librarian
541-791-0015

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