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The one-time fee for an iCurate inClusive for Schools one-time suite of reports and lists is $1,500 per school type (Elementary, Middle, or High) or $4,200 for K-12. K-8 schools should purchase Elementary and Middle for $3,000 total.
When your school purchases inClusive, you will be invoiced around the next first of the month.
The reporting and marked lists are based on one set of holdings that you submit. You may submit your system holdings, and the reporting will be based on that. For school systems who want separate reports by school, we have tiered discounting: 2-39 schools with separate holdings = 5% discount, and 40+ schools with separate holdings = 10% discount. To get the discount, schools in the system must be ordered and paid for at the same time.
To purchase, email iCurate@ingramcontent.com stating which grade ranges you want to purchase (Elementary, Middle, High, or K-12). You will receive a confirmation email that includes instructions for submitting holdings and other key information.
You can cancel your purchase at any time before we begin any work on the project. If we do not have your holdings in our system, you can cancel any time before submitting the holdings. If we do have your holdings via a z39.50 connection already, you will need to cancel within an hour of your purchase email.
iCurate inClusive for Schools lists are delivered within two weeks of when you submit your holdings to us. If you want to pay now and get the work later, simply let us know in your purchase email. The project must be used within 12 months of purchase unless you have worked it out with us. To ensure the most accurate and updated reporting, please do not submit holdings until you are ready to receive the reports and lists within two weeks.
Reports and lists will be delivered to the same email address that you used to purchase iCurate inClusive for Schools, unless you give us a different email to use.
Yes! We know that many libraries will request samples to help make this decision. Our ILS Sales reps have access to a sample reporting suite based on a fictional library and a very abbreviated sample list that they can share via email. To ensure that we have time to meet all our deadlines and because of the just-in-time nature of these lists, we cannot create specific custom samples upon request.
Asian Interest, Black Interest, Indigenous Interest, Jewish Interest, Latine Interest, LGBTQIA+ Interest, Mental Health (includes Addiction), Middle Eastern Interest, Multicultural, Muslim Interest, and Neuro & Physical Diversity.
Diversity Categories are largely based on interest and content rather than author identification, which is not always readily available, accurate, or discernable. If an author is well-known as being identified with a specific diverse category (David Sedaris, Amy Tan, Maya Angelou, Temple Grandin), they will also be included.
No, Ingram maintains a proprietary database, hand-curated by the Collection Development Librarians, that has additional (locally defined) fields and value-added information. This database that has been updated over many years allows this type of service to be offered at a reasonable cost.
In this example, the book would be counted in LGBTQIA+ and in the Neuro & Physical Diversity categories. If the book appears in the recommended list of diverse titles, it will have both relevant diversity category columns marked.
The Jewish and Muslim Interest titles focus on the cultural aspects rather than religious. In the US, Christianity is not an underrepresented or marginalized culture.
To maintain our ability to keep the cost at an affordable rate and to meet all our deadlines while continuing to add this value-added information to our databases, we are not able to deviate from the templates we have created, and we likely do not have more specific metadata in our application. If you want to discuss pricing for customization, we are happy to meet with you to see what is possible.
In addition to the charts covering the overall collection and subject categories in each area, you will receive a spreadsheet that shows the number of titles in each diversity category in each subject that your library contains. Current technology does not provide a secure enough way to share our proprietary, hand-curated data for that many titles on an EAN level.
Our metadata shows the publication date of specific EANs, and original publication date is not a readily available field from publishers. Although it would not be difficult for us to create reporting claiming to show this information, it would be a skewed picture, and misleading information is often worse than no information. Most integrated library systems likely have more accurate reporting on original publication dates, depending on the level of cataloging.
We take care to watch for stereotypes, tropes, and dubious viewpoints when we are marking diverse titles. We do not count these titles as diverse in our reporting and never include these titles on any inClusive lists.
This is an art and not a strict science, and we err on being more than less cautious if a book is considered of dubious distinction.
Ingram has school and public library customers of all sizes across the country that have purchased iCurate inClusive and submitted their holdings to us. We average the inClusive results in each category and subject to come up with the “average” number.
At the beginning of this project, we ingested all the holdings of some of the largest collections in the US. Our Collection Development librarians and managers worked overtime to get value-added information added to those tens of thousands of titles so they will show up in our reports and will show as held if the author/title matches a more current edition in our lists.
If a title doesn’t have an EAN, ISBN, or UPC, it cannot be submitted as a holding because that’s the primary key for the database, so it will not be counted as a holding at all. If we don’t have an EAN in our system because it has been out of print a long time or is very local, it will not count as diverse OR as un-diverse, so it will not have a large impact on percentages—it doesn’t count for or against your collection. If this is the case, you may want to modify the presentation we provide for you to include details about your special collection to showcase a valuable local collection that is uniquely yours.
The Elementary School inClusive service includes lists for Picture Books, Easy Reader Fiction, Easy Reader Nonfiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Graphic Novel, Easy Nonfiction, and Juvenile Nonfiction.
The Middle School inClusive service includes lists for Middle School Fiction, Middle School Nonfiction, and Middle School Graphic Novels.
The High School inClusive service includes lists for High School Fiction, High School Nonfiction, and High School Graphic Novels.
inClusive lists include whichever format is selling into school libraries the most.
The lists sent as part of inClusive are based on the typical library’s needs, and neither the lists included nor the binding preference can be changed. If your school library has different needs, our Collection Development team will be happy to discuss them with you and provide a price quote for more customized lists.
inClusive lists are selected based on popularity and may include titles up to three months prepublication if they have unusually high advance sales.
No, although you may see that a single title has multiple diversity categories marked. Our titles are divided into specific categories with no crossover, so you would never receive a title in both Fiction and Graphic Novels, for example.
We want to be able to send you the best and most popular titles in each category, so there are no price or discount limits on titles that are suggested on inClusive. Most titles on the lists will be have a standard discount and a retail price of less than $50, but we will occasionally include more expensive titles if they are popular in school libraries.
While review coverage is an important consideration when our librarians select titles, it is not the primary factor. Review journal coverage is often imbalanced, including a higher percentage of low-circulating subjects like poetry while skipping some very popular, high-circulating categories, genres, and series. We also don’t want to exclude new titles that are already very popular simply because they may not have a review yet.
Some categories are more popular than others in both school libraries and the publishing industry. Many more Black Interest titles than Indigenous Interest titles are published each year, for example. Some categories, such as Picture Books, allow for more diversity than other categories, such as Easy Reader Nonfiction.
Selections are based on popularity within school libraries combined with the diversity categories that we enter into our proprietary database every day.
Each school handles their Reference collection a little bit differently. Because we build the inClusive lists to meet most libraries’ needs, we include titles that might be used as Reference within the appropriate Nonfiction list if they are popular enough and leave those decisions to each school library.
Easy Reader Nonfiction books are leveled readers, whereas Easy Nonfiction books are typically in the picture book format.
