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District librarian: circulation fell, nonfiction collections need updating

5407552 · July 17, 2025
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At the July 14 Northridge School District board meeting, the district library coordinator reported a drop in physical circulation, uneven nonfiction collections across schools and recent grant funding to replace some nonfiction titles.

Dawn Moore, the librarian at Hawthorne and library coordinator, told the Northridge School District Board of Education on July 14 that districtwide physical circulation dropped to about 81,347 checkouts this year, down from a typical 100,000–110,000. Moore said she intentionally excluded digital circulation from this total and attributed part of the decline to scheduling changes such as PLC Mondays that…

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