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Making Your Data Work for Your Program
After you have basked in the success of your Snapshot Day, put the data you gathered to work! Your administration, teachers, and students will be interested to know what the data reveals about your library program.

A few fun ways to use your data are:

Create a bulletin board that highlights your stats. Read more about this example on Jennifer LaGarde's blog, Adventures of Library Girl.

Compile data for your district and create a video to share with principals, district administrators and school board members. media type="youtube" key="e8gdyQOtRyo" height="315" width="560" Take a look at this example from the Anderson School District One Librarians made with Animoto.

Create an infographic to display your data. Share the infographic on your website, newsletter, bulletin board or by email. Visit The Daring Librarian's site for a quick tutorial on Comic Life. Examples of graphic library reports can be seen here and here. For infographic inspiration take a look at these from School Library Journal.

Create a word cloud using Wordle or Tagxedo from the student and teacher surveys collected on Snapshot Day.





Feel free to use this template created in PowerPoint to share or display your data. You will need to replace the numbers with your own data and feel free to exchange the Clip Art photos with your own pictures from the day.