Numbers at a Glance: April 2022
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Circulation
Total Circulation by Format - FY 21/22
Main Library Circulation by Format
Circulation by Audience:
- Adult: 29,320
- Young Adult: 1,156
- Youth: 31,588
- Digital: 8,181
- Streaming: 2,390
- In-House Uses: N/A
Holds Filled for Main Library: 5,583
Drive-Up Window Circulation by Format
Circulation by Audience:
- Adult: 3,124
- Young Adult: 188
- Youth: 1,561
Holds Filled for Drive-Up Window: 2,168
Digital & Streaming Circulation by Format
Digital & Streaming Circulation by Service
Collections
Total Collection by Format - FY 21/22
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! This month, 1,281 titles were rushed to fill patron holds!
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 397 items for 39 community book clubs this month. Popular titles this month:
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
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 recieved the following items for patrons:
- 97 items were borrowed for our patrons
- 210 items were lent to libraries around the country
Programming
Adult General Programs
Book Discusion: 2nd Tuesday Book Discussion groups read Call Us What We Carry
Click HERE to learn more about our Book Discussion Groups.
Young Adult General Programs
The SCPLD YouTube Channel has 25,419 lifetime views as of April 2022
Youth General Programs
This month, Youth Services issued 9 muesum passes.
Click HERE for more information about museum passes and discounts available through our library.
One Hundred and Sixty Minutes: The Race to Save the Titanic
National bestselling author William Hazelgrove presented the story of the amazing heroism and astounding incompetence in the race to rescue the Titanic, as more than 28 ships raced to her rescue.
One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic on April 15, 1912.
There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence against the backdrop of the most advanced ship in history sinking by inches with luminaries from all over the world. It is a story of a network of wireless operators on land and sea who desperately sent messages back and forth across the dark frozen North Atlantic to mount a rescue mission.
Adult Outreach Programs
This month, the Adult Outreach team delivered 1,137 non-circulating and 1,112 circulating items to patrons and facilities in our community. Also, 19 circulating items were mailed out.
Youth Outreach Programs
This month, Youth Services selected 229 items to support classrooms for 15 teachers in the St. Charles community. Interested teachers can request materials and learn more HERE.
PoetTree
April was National Poetry Month.
We had 350 children and adults created poems to hang on the poetree in the Youth Services Department in celebration of National Poetree Month!
