Fill In The Blank

With Perma-Bound's Fill in the Blank service, Accelerated Reader and/or Reading Counts information is right at students', teachers', and librarians' fingertips when searching for books. These programs help to encourage and reward students for independent reading through quizzes to test comprehension. Both programs use reading-level tests, and books are assigned reading levels and points based on difficulty. With Fill in the Blank, you display the information relating to the AR and Reading Counts! programs for individual books within your library's automated system catalog. See an example

Choose multiple years and/or both programs to fill in more for less!

Fill in the Blank is meant as a complement to our free inclusion of Accelerated Reader and Reading Counts! information in the 526 tags of MARC records. Upon request, we include this information when it has been supplied to us at the time we process your MARC records; however, AR and Reading Counts! are always expanding, so frequently titles are processed and the 526 tag is not populated. Later, relevant data exist but 526 fields remain blank because MARC records haven't been regularly reviewed for such gaps.

Fill in the Blank Subscription Pricing

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1-Year Annual renewal* 3-Year 5-Year
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One Program
$199.99
$199.99
$74.99
$599.97
$314.99
$999.95
$424.99
Both Programs $399.98
$339.99
$399.98
$124.99
$1199.97
$534.99
$1999.95
$724.99

With Fill in the Blank, you provide us an export of all of your MARC records, regardless of your circulation system or the source of your US MARC formatted MARC records, and we will fill in any records missing 526 tags with the new AR and/or Reading Counts! information. We will also let you know of any records where your record's 526 tag information does not coincide with the data we have, making it easier for you to find and correct possible discrepancies and, if needed, ensure that those records are updated. This service is sold on a one-, three-, or five-year basis. Each license provides for the initial review and updating of your records, plus two additional reviews that year (you choose when to upload during the year), to ensure your records remain up-to-date. In every additional year--whether you renew annually or choose a multi-year subscription--you will receive an additional three reviews.

Just as MARC records can become incomplete over time, so too can the items themselves. As a supplemental service to help complement your Fill in the Blank subscription, you can purchase reading program labels for your collection. Once our program analyzes your collection, you will receive two lists: one with items already containing 526 reading program data at the time of your upload; and the other with items we updated to include your selected reading program data. If desired, we will print labels for you for all the books with reading program information--or only for those for which we have added the program information based upon your subscriptions choices. After selection, labels are printed here and shipped to you. The cost for labels is $0.06 per label, and orders are subject to a $5 minimum.