Numbers at a Glance:
July 2024
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Circulation
Total Circulation by Format - FY 24/25
Main Library Circulation by Format
Circulation by Audience:
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Adult: 35,454
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Young Adult: 1,850
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Youth: 43,467
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Digital: 15,618
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Streaming: 3,059
Holds Filled for Main Library: 7,240
Drive-Up Window Circulation by Format
Circulation by Audience:
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Adult: 1,992
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Young Adult: 46
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Youth: 669
Holds Filled for Drive-Up Window: 1,791
Digital & Streaming Circulation by Format
Digital & Streaming Circulation by Service
Collections
Total Collection by Format - FY 24/25
Adult Collections
Young Adult Collections
Youth Collections
Services by Request
New Materials, Purchase Requests, and More!
We provide materials for patrons as fast as we can!
Book Club Service & Interlibrary Loan
Our Book Club Service makes it easy to select titles and run book club discussions. Everything you need is right at your fingertips. You provide the Book Club – we’ll do the rest! Click HERE for more information about our Book Club Service!
We provided 389 items for 40 community book clubs this month.
Interlibrary Loan is the ability to get our patrons materials that are not available at our library or within the SWAN consortium. This month, we received the following items for patrons:
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167 items were borrowed for our patrons
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178 items were lent to libraries around the country
Programming
Adult General Programs
Click HERE to learn more about our Book Discussion Groups.
Young Adult General Programs
The SCPLD YouTube Channel has 113,681 lifetime views as of July 2024
Youth General Programs
This month, Youth Services issued 52 museum passes.
Click HERE for more information about museum passes and discounts available through our library.
Genealogy After Hours a Success!
The Library hosted the annual Genealogy After Hours at the end of July.
Patrons had exclusive use of the Library’s genealogy materials and public computers, giving them access to many of our services for genealogy research.
Three professional genealogists met one-on-one with patrons to assist them with their research.
This was the sixth year the Library has planned this event.
Adult Outreach Programs
This month, the Adult Outreach team delivered 2,474 non-circulating and 963 circulating items to patrons and facilities in our community. Also, 11 circulating items were mailed out.
Young Adult Outreach Programs
Youth Outreach Programs
Educators in our area can request library materials and learn more about our educator outreach HERE.
Final Lap: Summer Reading
The Final Lap Celebration brought 436 patrons to the Library to log their last bits of reading, pick up any remaining prizes, and celebrate their Summer Reading successes with the fun of an inflatable rock climb slide and a remote-control car challenge.
