WISS Library Annual Report June 2012

1. WISS Library
Annual Report
June 2012
Fiona Collins
Head Librarian
Email: fcollins@wiss.cn

2. Library goals
• developing a library that supports the IB
curriculum from PYP to DP
• promoting a love of reading within the
WISS community

3. Library promotion
• Flexible scheduling introduced to promote maximum
usage throughout the school.
• Regular magazine and newsletter articles.
• Author visits – 6 major author visits
this year including the Graphic artist Kazu Kibuishi.
• 2 different Book clubs offered 3 times this year and a 3
day Book Fair during Book Week.
• Collaborative teaching opportunities and expanded
support to MYP and DP students.

4. Patrons & Circulation
• Students – 555 (53% increase, includes departed
students)
• Faculty – 140
• Parents – 59
• Circulation – 51,808 loans (31,714 to Faculty)
• Summer borrowing – 678 loans
• All Secondary textbooks are now circulated
through the Library.

5. Average Circulations per Patron
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Parent
Nursery
Pre K
Kindergarten
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12

6. Collection Development
• The collection has grown 30% to 22,841
titles (39,427 copies);
• Growth areas have centered around
Magazines & newspapers, Chinese
and the Foreign Language collections;

7. WISS Library Collection Development 2009-12
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
BigBook
ChineseBooks
Classroom
ResourcesEBooks
EAL
Everybody
Fiction
Adult
Fiction
M
iddle
Fiction
Prim
aryFiction
YA
Foreign
Languages
GraphicNovels
Guided
Readers
Hom
e
Readers
IndividualReadersM
agazines
M
ulitM
edia
Non
Fiction
ParentResources
Read
AlongReference
TeacherResources
May-09
Jun-10
Jun-11
Jun-12

8. WISS Library Collection June 2012
Big Book
0%
Chinese Books
7%
E Books
0%
Individual Readers
0%
Magazines
1%
Read Along
0%
Mulit Media
0%
Teacher Resources
4%
EAL
1%
Fiction Adult
1%
Everybody
9%
Fiction Middle
4%
Fiction Primary
7%
Fiction YA
1%
Reference
1%
Classroom Resources
18%
Home Readers
15%
Non Fiction
16%
Guided Readers
10%
Parent Resources
0%
Foreign Languages
3%
Graphic Novels
1%

9. Electronic Databases
• Britannica Online & Global Reference Centre,
Brain Pop, Teen Health & Wellness continued
to be used this year;
• Tumble Books replaced Bookflix and
Childroad was introduced for Chinese
language;
• Questia High School database was added;
• Turnitin and Newsbank are under
consideration for 2012-13.

10. Future plans
• Addition of another Librarian to provide
more collaborative planning
opportunities across the whole school
and develop the Library programme
thoughout the school.
• Introduction of iPads in the Library.