Date: November 2, 2006
To: Board of Trustees
From: Greta Chapman
Re: Statistics Narrative, July-Sept 2006
Date: October 27, 2006
To:
From: Supervisors
Re: Statistics Narrative, July-Sept 2006
Our review of this quarter shows library usage is increasing overall.
- Circulation numbers show a 23% over this quarter last year
- Holds and renewals continue to grow. Possible reasons are that:
o We modified our renewal policy to allow up to 3 renewals
o We are more successful in acquiring high-interest titles
- 2006 year-to-date entry count is up 16% over last year; however the July –September quarter has remained stable at an average of about 35,000 patrons per month.
- Drive-up window use remains about 1% of the monthly gate count. We believe we need to market this service more aggressively to make more people aware of the convenience factor.
- Electronic Access (computer usage) is increasing
again in September after a dip in August. Year to date, computer usage is
up 51%. There are several reasons for this increase:
- We have 11 more public access computers than we
had in 2005
- E-mail computer hours are counted this year but
were not last year; this more accurately reflects the overall computer
use
- There is an increasing societal trend to access
information via the Internet.
- Patron contacts are up in some areas and down in others. Overall, they have remained relatively stable.
- The year-to-date graph below shows that there has been a steady, overall increases in new Pennington County borrowers; compared to 2005, we have had 50% increase of Adult new borrowers and an 83% increase of Youth borrowers.
