There is a large body of research showing that strong school libraries make a measurable contribution to student achievement, a summary of which can be found at School Libraries Work!
In accordance with those findings, our most recent annual statistics show that Leander ISD libraries:
- had collectively, more than 560,000 items available for check out
- circulated over 1,115,000 items in total
- checked out more than 914,000 items to students, averaging 32 items per student
- shared over 8,500 items among campuses through our inter-library loan service
- had more than 520,000 searches on our Gale databases, 136,000 on EBSCO and 125,000 on World Book and nearly 2 million searches on all our databases combined
Your Leander ISD librarians:
- taught over 8,400 hours and nearly 20,000 lessons on
information literacy skills
- hosted authors, story tellers, artists, poets--and even reading dogs!
- sponsored dozens of book fairs, reading programs, contests and events
- attended more than 1500 hours of staff development, and were presenters at several conferences, including Leander ISD’s own Continuous Improvement Conference, TCEA Conference, and Texas Library Association Annual Conference