Antioch University Seattle School Library Certification Program: Collection Assessment

Dewey Decimal Charts

Helpful charts identifying topics by Dewey numbers.

• Wikipedia's List of Dewey Decimal classes (by ones)
• Dewey Decimal Classification System by tens
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• DDC Chart for Elementary Students

Finding Lexiles and Reading Levels​

• Lexile Overview & Resources (West Virginia Dept. of Educaiton)
• Lexile Level Searchable Database  (free site)
• Mackin​ (Mackin allows you to search by reading and lexile levels. Register free to use their database.)
• Follett’s TitleWave  (Follett’s TitleWave has reading and interest levels. Register free to use their database.)
• Bound to Stay Bound  (BTSB also allows searching of Accelerated Reader and Reading Counts. Register free to use their database.)
• Scholastic’s BookWizard (Scholastic’s BookWizard allows searching of grade level equivalent, Guided Reading (A-Z), DRA, and Lexile levels. Plus booktalks, lesson plans, author studies, videos, and discussion guides. Also refer to their “Lexile Levels Made Easy” explanation and comparison of systems.)
• Level It Books ™app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch And there’s an app for that!
• Biblionasium- A social collaborative free web tool for kids to share and recommend what they are reading, inlcudes Lexiles and reading levels of searchable titles

More about leveling and labeling books:

Awful Library Books

 (http://awfullibrarybooks.net/) is a fun site with lots of slide presentations and advice to get you in the mood to weed. Enjoy! 

Read the full report, Diverse City, White Curriculum: The Exclusion of People of Color from English Language Arts in New York City, conducted by the NYU Metro Center and released by the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice. 

Follett TitleWise Collection Analysis Report

DESTINY REPORTS

Below are report setup instructions with in Destiny to help with the Data Collection Worksheet of the Collection Assessment Project.

The Destiny "Collection Age Report" can be printed as follows: "Reports" tab - Library Reports - Statistics "Collection Statistics-Summary" - "Age" Tab - Printable

A Destiny Collection Report for the Last School Year that also shows circulation can be printed as follows: "Reports" tab - Library Reports - Statistics "Collection Statistics-Historical" - (then set parameters and print). This shows one full school year of use data instead of a partial year.​

More Resources from Follett:

For larger version, click here. 

Larson, Jeanette. CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries. Austin: Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2008.

In 2012, chapters were added on ebooks. 

Sue Kimmel author of Developing Collections to Empower Learners offers this webinar on collection assessment.