Fig. 8 shows the number of library staff [Column 1] that reported the number of students they serve [Column 2]. Fig. 8: Ratio of Students to Library Staff No. of Library Staff No. of Students 1 500 The trend is that there is one school librarian per school 1 600 regardless of the number of students. However, there were only nine respondents to this question. This is too 1 856 small a sample to generalize to the population. Only nine 1 1100 respondents answered this question presumably 1 1300 because they did not know the answer or did not have 1 1400 the data to calculate a response. 1 1600 1 1700 1 1900 n=9 Total FTE Support Staff Respondents selected the response that indicated the total number of Full-time Equivalent [FTE] support staff employed in all of the school libraries in which they work, excluding themselves. For example if they had one support staff in one building who was half-time [-.05 FTE] and an additional support staff in another building who was full-time [-1.0 FTE] they reported a total of 1.5 FTE. Fig. 9: Total FTE Support Staff Fig. 9 shows that 61% of school libraries Fig. 10: Comparison of FTE Support Staff by District Types have no full-time equivalent support staff. The largest number of full time Test Result Finding support employees who work in the Pearson’s school library is 1.0 [one full-time CHI-SQUARE equivalent] staff member in only 17.6% (4) =3.40, p=0.494. Urban and rural school of school libraries. libraries do not have significantly fewer FTE support staff than suburban school libraries. Fig. 10 displays the results of a Chi-square analysis that determined urban and rural libraries do not have significantly fewer FTE support staff than suburban school libraries. There were no significant differences in the number of FTE support staff among urban, rural, and suburban libraries. This explains why school librarians report that they often perform non-professional tasks, such as checking out or shelving books, monitoring student attendance, or physically processing and preparing books for shelving and circulation.
Fig. 8 shows the number of library staff [Column 1] that reported the number of students they serve [Column 2]. Fig. 8: Ratio of Students to Library Staff No. of Library Staff No. of Students 1 500 1 600 1 856 1 1100 1 1300 1 1400 1 1600 1 1700 1 1900 n=9 The trend is that there is one school librarian per school regardless of the number of students. However, there were only nine respondents to this question. This is too small a sample to generalize to the population. Only nine respondents answered this question presumably because they did not know the answer or did not have the data to calculate a response. Total FTE Support Staff Respondents selected the response that indicated the total number of Full-time Equivalent [FTE] support staff employed in all of the school libraries in which they work, excluding themselves. For example if they had one support staff in one building who was half-time [-.05 FTE] and an additional support staff in another building who was full-time [-1.0 FTE] they reported a total of 1.5 FTE. Fig. 9: Total FTE Support Staff Fig. 9 shows that 61% of school libraries have no full-time equivalent support staff. The largest number of full time support employees who work in the school library is 1.0 [one full-time equivalent] staff member in only 17.6% of school libraries. Fig. 10: Comparison of FTE Support Staff by District Types Test Result Finding Pearson’s CHI-SQUARE (4) =3.40, p=0.494. Urban and rural school libraries do not have significantly fewer FTE support staff than suburban school libraries. Fig. 10 displays the results of a Chi-square analysis that determined urban and rural libraries do not have significantly fewer FTE support staff than suburban school libraries. There were no significant differences in the number of FTE support staff among urban, rural, and suburban libraries. This explains why school librarians report that they often perform non-professional tasks, such as checking out or shelving books, monitoring student attendance, or physically processing and preparing books for shelving and circulation.