Reports

Creating monthly or annual reports for your department may be part of your responsibility as a youth services librarian. More and more, these kinds of reports are being presented in non-traditional ways. Interactive reports using multimedia tools are much more popular, both to create and to view. Below are some examples of these kinds of reports that could be used to guide your own monthly or annual report creation. Note: many of these examples are from the school library world. Teacher-librarians seem to be at the forefront of this move towards more interactive reports.

As a public librarian, reporting on one department, you may be restricted to following a particular format or template for reporting, particularly for an annual report. However, you may find that providing your administration or library board with monthly or quarterly reports (using one of these new formats) may be an excellent advocacy and communication tool.

http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/the-unquiet-library-annual-report-2011-part-1/ (2010-2011 Annual Report)--be sure to look at her use of QR Codes and other great multimedia content
 * Must read:** From Buffy Hamilton's Unquiet Library:

From Buffy Hamilton's Unquiet Library: [] (Monthly report)

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Clovis High School Library: [] (Monthly report)

BMS Library Media Center: [] (Quarterly report)

Cathy-Jo Nelson's School Library Annual Report: []

Joyce Valenza's 2009 School Library Annual Report: [] (this one is more traditional than some of the others)

Joyce Valenza's 2010 School Library Annual Report: [] (less traditional!)

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