1. Library Cards for All*
*if you’re a student and your parents say it is okay
Ann Morgester (ASD) Elizabeth Nicolai (APL)

2. Who are we? Anchorage Public Library Elizabeth Nicolai -
Youth Services Coordinator
Anchorage School District
Ann Morgester
Library Supervisor

3. CONNECTED LIBRARY CHALLENGE
Came from the White House Initiative ConnectED
Both agreed
Aim to increase access to public library resources by public school students
Over next year a number of options were discussed
Huge committee made it difficult to make progress

4. 1st Try - Muldoon area pilot
Initial Pilot: Muldoon area Schools - encouraging library card sign ups
Used an extremely intense level of traditional library outreach methods (sign ups at back to school nights, class room talks, fliers home with students, etc)
Investing a large amount of staff and time very few new library card sign ups were recorded
Failure led to decision to integrate public library cards into the online registration process

5. 33,843 records 2016-2017 School Year 75% of ASD Students
Online registration allowed us to reach all returning students
Issues:
No new to district students including kindergarteners were able to opt in
School librarians couldn’t see which students were opted in until later in the year
We sent out cardboard cards but neither school nor APL staff had time to affix all the barcodes
Parents could not change status and there were no updates allowed.

6. Staff Training for ASD Staff
32 trainings
1,891 people
98 new cards
APL hosted ASD Librarians during beginning of year inservice
Librarians encouraged to invite public librarians in to talk to staff
Regarding the project, databases, and other resources

7. Outreach directly to students
Focused first year on staff
Continued traditional outreach
School tours
School family nights
Classroom visits
For the first year we focused on reaching out and training staff.
Did attend several back to school nights, literacy nights, etc.
Talked to groups of kids at middle schools, etc
Hosted several tour groups of schools

8. Outcomes for
Increases were seen in Newsbank (64%), Tumblebooks (163%), and Worldbook (97%)
Hoopla (130%)- may not have been entirely due to APL/ASD Project
Checkout of physical items was low but we expected that
Outcomes – increase in electronic database usage and check outs:
· Directly attributable to our outreach: (the databases we plugged the most)
o Nearly doubled Newsbank (64% increase)
o Nearly tripled Tumblebook (163% increase)
o Doubled World Book usage (97% increase)
· Huge increases, might have been our outreach or the general public
o Hoopla, more than doubled, 130% increase
· Check outs were not great with these cards, but we always expected that eresources were a primary focus not physical resources. We took snapshots throughout the year to see how the usage was. Usage did increase throughout the year showing that outreach was working.
o On October 14, only 38 ASD students has used their new cards.
o On January 13, 105 users had checked out 227 items
o On April 25, 181 users had checked out 193 items

9. Staff Survey Outcomes Staff with library cards from 69% to 74%
Downloadable ebooks & audiobooks
Staff use from 18% to 20%
Staff encourage students to use 18% to 27%
Staff using in a classroom lesson 7% to 9%
Mango Languages
Staff encourage students to use doubled
Staff using in a classroom quadrupled
Staff comments:
I have encouraged students and staff to use a number of these, as well as using a number of them to support my lessons.
I am going to use these next year as I create lesson plans.

10. 86 % 2017-2018 All students able to opt in
Monthly updates so changes can be made
40,819 students opted in
86 %
Includes pre-K through 12th grade

11. Dream Big
Staff Cards!
Courier service!