{"id":5293,"date":"2014-03-27T20:48:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2014-03-27T22:16:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T04:16:37","slug":"storytime-workload-survey-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/storytime-workload-survey-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytime Workload Survey: THE NUMBERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Lisa and I ran a very, very casual survey<\/a> of storytime providers and she’s already written two great posts looking at the results, one about numbers of non-storytime programs per week <\/a>and one about taking breaks<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I am finally catching up to her by giving us a look at the big numbers, the prime motivation for the survey: how many storytimes do we do on average every week? <\/p>\n

So our survey divided out responders by how many hours a week they work overall, then asked how many storytimes they do on an average week. This was a quick and dirty set of questions and the numbers should be taken with a grain of salt as a result. We didn’t give specific instructions, so some people included their outreach events and some people didn’t; some people have a very regular weekly schedule, and some people don’t and kind of had to punt to give us a weekly number. <\/p>\n

HOWEVER! <\/p>\n

As of today, we have 130 responses all together, and here’s what we have: <\/p>\n

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PS I made this chart at http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/NCESKIDS\/createagraph\/default.aspx !<\/p><\/div>\n

For 40 hour\/week staff, the average storytimes per week was 2.82 (94 respondents)<\/p>\n

For 30 hour\/week staff, the average storytimes per week was 3.38 (8 respondents)<\/p>\n

For 20 hour\/week staff, the average storytimes per week was 2.38 (21 respondents)<\/p>\n

For <20 hour\/week staff, the average storytimes per week was 2.44 (9 respondents)<\/p>\n

I thought it was interesting that the average for all staff was 2-3 per week (with a little bump for those few 30 hour folks, go you guys!)–given we had staff from small libraries *and* big libraries respond, and staff with varying levels of non-storytime responsibilities (though we didn’t have a way to track that, it came through anecdotally in the comments). <\/p>\n

It certainly looks like there is a sweet spot here. Not only the averages, but the modes were right at 2-3 per week, too. What do you think? Is this what you expected to see? <\/p>\n

Added later 3\/27: I forgot to say that what was also interesting to me was that it didn’t matter how many hours a week you worked; the number of storytimes stayed about the same. This means though that percentage-wise, storytimes are filling up proportionately more of your week if you are part time than if you are full time. I wonder if this is an expectation reflected in job descriptions? <\/p>\n

PS: Here are the raw numbers–Google didn’t give me tidy charts so read the captions carefully! <\/em><\/p>\n

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Storytime Per Person at 40 Hours a Week: First Column # of Storytimes, Second Column # of Responders<\/p><\/div>

\"Storytimes<\/a>

Storytime Per Person at 30 Hours a Week: First Column # of Storytimes, Second Column # of Responders<\/p><\/div>

\"Storytime<\/a>

Storytime Per Person at 20 Hours a Week: First Column # of Storytimes, Second Column # of Responders<\/p><\/div>

\"Storytime<\/a>

Storytime Per Person at less than 20 Hours a Week: First Column # of Storytimes, Second Column # of Responders<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Lisa and I ran a very, very casual survey of storytime providers and she’s already written two great posts looking at the results, one about numbers of non-storytime programs per week and one about taking breaks. I am finally … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2LHEP-1nn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5315,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}