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Circulation - Total, Children and do we separate out Young Adult

Page history last edited by Kim Miller 14 years, 1 month ago

10/21/2009:

Question:

 

Holly Van Valkenburgh (NV)

 

Since PLSC went to Children's and Young Adults for programming attendance, should Children’s Circulation also be the two groups?

 

IMLS response (to Holly)

 

Our understanding of the children’s circulation data element is that it is neutral with respect to age.  That is, the circulation number is based on the movement of children’s holdings, not the age of the patron checking out the material.  Indeed, the definition expressly says that it refers to circulation of children’s materials “to all users” (see below).  In short, there would be no reason to redefined the children circulation element for people 11 and under.

 

Wording of children’s circulation data element: The total annual circulation of all children’s materials in all formats to all users, including renewals.

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2/4/2010

Question:

 

Bruce Pomerantz (MN)

I received one query asking where to place the YA circulation or if there was going to be a separate YA circulation category.

 

IMLS Response:

 

To answer the question you received and posted to the SDC list, “where to place the YA circulation or if there was going to be a separate YA circulation category,” please reply that YA circulation is not a PLS data element and there is no need for libraries to collect and report YA circulation as part of the national reporting program. 

 

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551 Circulation of Childrens Materials

 

550 Total Circulation 

 

 

Comments (1)

Susan Mark said

at 12:17 am on Feb 6, 2010

I think the question here is not circ of materials FOR children vs. circ of materials TO children. The question is the age range, with children being defined as under age 14 for circ vs. age 11 for programs. Our libraries are now classifying some materials as YA instead of juvenile or adult. Looking at our circ system stats, it looks like about 5.5% of our circ last FY was for materials classed as YA. I'm guessing that a lot of the older stuff in our systems that would now be classed as YA is still in there under Juvenile, which complicates the issue. When I pulled stats for my libraries I only pulled total circ and circ of Juvenile materials. I think the question is... where does circ of YA materials go, now that libraries are looking at them that way? And how many libraries are classifying materials as YA?

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