2013CLA Summer Reading Participation Survey

Survey Questions and Notes

Section 1: Background

  1. Your name, email address, job title, and library name.
  2. How many service points (e.g. main libraries, branch libraries, and bookmobiles) are in your library jurisdiction?
  3. How many service points offered summer reading for children and/or preschoolers and younger?
  4. How many service points offered summer reading for teens?
  5. How many service points offered summer reading for adults?
  6. Which summer reading theme/provider did you use? Reading Is So Delicious (iREAD), Have Book Will Travel (iREAD), Dig Into Reading (CSLP), Other please tell us:
  7. Why did you choose this summer reading theme/provider?

Section 2a: At the library: summer reading sign-ups and completion* **

  1. How many children, in total, signed up for summer reading at your libraries? (If you count preschoolers and younger, please include them here.)
  2. How many teens, in total, signed up for summer reading at your libraries?
  3. How many adults, in total, signed up for summer reading at your libraries?
  1. How many children, in total, completed summer reading at your libraries? (If you count preschoolers and younger, please include them here.)
  2. How many teens, in total, completed summer reading at your libraries?
  3. How many adults, in total, completed summer reading at your libraries?

*Please use your own definition of completion; if you do not count completion, please enter N/A.

** Please do not report here the people who signed up at an off-site location. Please report those numbers below.

Section 2b: At the library: programs, events, and activities

  1. How many summer reading events and activities, in total, were held in your libraries for children and/or families? (If you offer summer reading-themed programs for preschoolers and younger, please include them here.)
  2. What was the total number of attendees at these programs?
  1. How many summer reading events and activities, in total, were held in your libraries for teens?
  2. What was the total number of attendees at these programs?
  1. How many summer reading events and activities, in total, were held in your libraries for adults?
  2. What was the total number of attendees at these programs?

Section 3a: Out in the community: summer reading sign ups

  1. Did you take the summer reading program out to groups in the community? (e.g. where participants signed up for and participated in the program at a community site, not at the library.)

If yes:

  1. How many community groups did you work with?
  2. Please tell us the names of some of the groups you worked with.
  1. How many children, in total, signed up for summer reading at community sites? (If you count preschoolers and younger, please include them here.)
  2. How many teens, in total, signed up for summer reading at community sites?
  3. How many adults, in total, signed up for summer reading at community sites?

Section 3b: Out in the community: programs, events, and activities

  1. How many summer reading events and activities, in total, were held at these community sites for children and/or families? (If you offer summer reading-themed programs for preschoolers and younger, please include them here.)
  2. What was the total number of attendees at these programs?
  1. How many summer reading events and activities, in total, were held at these community sites for teens?
  2. What was the total number of attendees at these programs?
  1. How many summer reading events and activities, in total, were held at these community sites for adults?
  2. What was the total number of attendees at these programs?

Section 4: Five Book Summer Challenge

  1. Did you take part in CLA’s Five Book Summer Challenge?

If yes:

  1. How many children read five or more books this summer as part of your library’s summer reading program?
  2. How many teens read five or more books this summer as part of your library’s summer reading program?

Section 5: Outcomes initiative

  1. Did you participate in CLA’s outcomes-based summer reading initiative?

Please tell us why you did or did not participate.

Section 6: Other feedback

  1. Did you celebrate Summer Learning Day?If yes, please tell us briefly what you did.
  1. How, if at all, do you, your library, and/or your patrons benefit from the California Summer Reading Program materials? We would love to hear how you benefit from having these materials so that we have feedback from librarians to use in grant proposals in the future.
  1. Please tell us your best summer reading idea for this year.
  1. Any other feedback?

NOTES

Counting programs/activities in the library

  1. When you are counting programs/activities, please only include those that were part of summer reading (i.e. those programs that used your summer reading theme).
  2. When counting program attendees, please include everyone who attended, even if they were not part of your target audience (e.g. if parents or older siblings attended a children’s program, if younger siblings attended a teen program, or teens attended an adult program).

Notes on submitting your summer reading data

  1. Please compile all data for your library jurisdiction locally. We will ask for one person from each jurisdiction to submit the compiled data on behalf of all your libraries.
  2. Please do not send any data directly to CLA staff. Please wait until you see a link to the online survey, which we will send out by email in August.
  3. If any questions are not applicable to your program, please enter N/A.

Notes on completing the online survey in August/September

  1. Please have all your data with you before you start to fill out the survey because you need to complete it in one sitting. Once you’ve started the survey, you will not be able to save your responses and return to them later. We apologize for any inconvenience.
  2. When you are reporting numerical data, please enter numbers into the response boxes, not words. E.g., “2” not “two” and “0” not “none” or “zero”.
  3. When you are reporting numerical data, please enter one number into the response box, not a range of numbers. E.g., when reporting program attendance, do not enter “approx. 80-100”; instead, please choose one number to enter.
  4. If you would like to print your completed survey, remember to print each page as you go along -- after you’ve entered your responses and before you click the “submit” button. Once you click submit you will be taken to the next page of the survey.
  5. Please respond to all questions
  1. If any questions do not apply to your library please enter N/A into the response box.
  2. If you did not collect data relating to a particular question, please enter “No data collected” into the response box.
  3. If you are unable to answer a question, please use the response box to tell us why. Your feedback will help us improve next year’s survey.

2013 California Summer Reading Program

Participation Survey Questions