In today’s educational climate, transparency is the foundation of a healthy school-community relationship. The School District Library Transparency Package allows your district to fulfill parental requests for oversight and "Informed Choice" effortlessly.
 
Rather than burdening individual librarians and parents with manual content reviews, this package provides a standardized, automated system for your entire district. We take your library inventory and run it through the National Book Rating Index (NBRI) to generate school-specific "Flag & Notify" lists.
 
How It Works: Send us a spreadsheet of each school's library inventory and for each school we send you a parent-ready, flag-and-notify letter with accompanying flagged inventory list. Customize the letters with your district policy and wording.
 
Inventory Ingest: The district or individual schools provide an Excel export of their "Title and Copy List." For best matching purposes we recommend including the title, author and ISBN numbers. In Destiny-Follett librarians can export a list with these steps: Reports-Library Reports- Title and copy list-Select by -Titles-Show Titles- All Titles-Output - choose Excel
 
NBRI Reconciliation: We reconcile your specific inventory against our database of 28,000+ reviews, independent ratings, and historical challenge data. See our rating standardization table here.
 
Parent-Ready Deliverables: For every school in the package, we produce a customized Flag & Notify List, empowering your parents at no cost to them! Once the district purchases the Transparency Package, you are authorized to provide these custom lists to parents at no charge.
 
Fulfill Policy Requirements: This package is the perfect tool to satisfy district policies (such as Davis District 4I-202) regarding a parent's right to restrict their own child’s access to specific materials.
 
Easy for parents to use! Parents can print, sign and return the letters to the school with their personal preferences checked. Parents can check off the rating levels (3, 4, or 5) and sensitive content they wish to be notified about.
 
Reduce Administrative Conflict: By providing a clear, documented roadmap of library content, you remove the "surprise" element that often leads to formal book challenges and heated board meetings.
 
Why Choose the District Transparency Package? 
Operational Efficiency: We do the matching for you. No more manual searching of titles by staff or volunteers.
Comprehensive Data: Access the premiere aggregated conservative rating/review database, including documentation on removals and challenges from other districts.
Parental Oversight: Provide parents with a tool that helps them guide their children and encourage reading.
 
Restore the partnership between schools and families.
 
Estimates and purchase orders available. Please contact us directly at info@nationalbookratingindex.com for specialized billing and procurement support.
 
This service is for districts and parents who wan to distribute to all parents in their school.  For parents who just want one letter for their school, please see this product.