Numbers at a Glance: June 2022
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Circulation
Total Circulation by Format - FY 21/22
Main Library Circulation by Format
Circulation by Audience:
- Adult: 33,190
- Young Adult: 1,882
- Youth: 42,513
- Digital: 8,178
- Streaming: 10,850
- In-House Uses: 2,877
Holds Filled for Main Library: 6,004
Drive-Up Window Circulation by Format
Circulation by Audience:
- Adult: 2,742
- Young Adult: 95
- Youth: 1,299
Holds Filled for Drive-Up Window: 2,208
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, 1,055 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 358 items for 38 community book clubs this month . Popular titles this month:
- The Last Thing he Told Me by Laura Dave
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
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:
- 90 items were borrowed for our patrons
- 108 items were lent to libraries around the country
Programming
Adult General Programs
Book Discusion: 2nd Tuesday Book Discussion groups read Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller.
Click HERE to learn more about our Book Discussion Groups.
Young Adult General Programs
The SCPLD YouTube Channel has 27,885 lifetime views as of June 2022
Youth General Programs
This month, Youth Services issued 46 muesum passes.
Click HERE for more information about museum passes and discounts available through our library.
Summer Reading Ice Cream Social
This year, 167 delighted patrons attended our annual Summer Reading Ice Cream Social! A great time was had by all. Thank you to everyone who stopped by that evening.
A special thanks to library staff and Friends' volunteers.
Adult Outreach Programs
This month, the Adult Outreach team delivered 1,602 non-circulating and 1,054 circulating items to patrons and facilities in our community. Also, 18 circulating items were mailed out.
Youth Outreach Programs
Interested teachers can request materials and learn more HERE.
Summer Reading Begins!
Youth Services has had an amazing start to Summer Reading, which began on June 1.
1,297 children ages birth to 8th grade have registered thus far.
They have read a combined total of 775,456 minutes in June.