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Statistics and Input-Output Measures for Colorado School Libraries 1999
These reports include complete data on hours of operation, schedule, staffing levels, staff activities, technology, collection holdings, usage, and expenditures. Results are compiled from answers submitted by the school libraries responding to the 1999 School Library Survey.
Colorado 1999 Data Elements
- Respondent Information
- Name, Title, Phone .pdf .xls
- Service Hours per Typical Week
- School hours, after-school, and summer hours .pdf .xls
- School Library Staffing per Typical Week
- By educational background .pdf .xls
- Volunteer Hours
- Number of adult and student volunteers, hours worked .pdf .xls
- Electronic Access
- Numbers and types of networked computers and access .pdf .xls
- Networked Electronic Access
- Numbers and types of networked computers and access .pdf .xls
- Filtering
- Terminals filtered at student, building, and district level; type of access and software used .pdf .xls
- School Library Usage per Typical Week
- Circulation, number of visits, and information-skills instruction, ILL & Document Delivery .pdf .xls
- School Library Collection
- Reference titles, volumes, reference CDs, magazines, and newspaper subscriptions .pdf
- School Library Collection
- Videos, software packages, online periodical subscriptions, CD-ROM and other electronic subscriptions .pdf .xls
- School Library Collection
- Ratios Volumes per student: reference titles, CDs, subscriptions, software, and videos - per 100 students .pdf .xls
Colorado 1999 Analysis
17% of Colorado public schools responded to the 1999-00 School Library Survey. Benchmarks and state totals are estimated by weighting the responses from these schools to be representative of the state as a whole.
- Benchmark Ratios
- In this spreadsheet, information provided by schools responding to the survey is weighted to be representative of the state as a whole. Ratios for staffing, staff activities, usage, expenditures, and collections are organized both by size of school and by grade levels. The benchmarks include averages, highs, 75th percentiles, and medians in the categories listed. .xls
- Benchmark Narrative
- An explanation of how the 1999 Benchmarks are derived .pdf
- Colorado School Library Survey 1999 Results
- Complete data from 1999 school library survey respondents sorted alphabetically by school name .xls
- State Totals
- Total numbers in several categories including services, staff, collections, budget (All categories listed in one large spreadsheet) .xls