Numbers at a Glance: February 2023
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Circulation
Total Circulation by Format - FY 22/23
Main Library Circulation by Format
Circulation by Audience:
- Adult: 29,782
- Young Adult: 1,089
- Youth: 34,206
- Digital: 11,480
- Streaming: 3,211
Holds Filled for Main Library: 6,549
Drive-Up Window Circulation by Format
Circulation by Audience:
- Adult: 2,185
- Young Adult: 92
- Youth: 1,015
Holds Filled for Drive-Up Window: 1,746
Digital & Streaming Circulation by Format
Digital & Streaming Circulation by Service
Collections
Total Collection by Format - FY 22/23
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 453 items for 51 community book clubs this month. We also added three new club this month! The most popular title currently:
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:
- 142 items were borrowed for our patrons
- 116 items were lent to libraries around the country
Programming
Adult General Programs
Book Discussion: 2nd Tuesday Book Discussion groups read Watergate by Thomas Mallon
Click HERE to learn more about our Book Discussion Groups.
Young Adult General Programs
The SCPLD YouTube Channel has 35,616 lifetime views as of February 2023
Youth General Programs
This month, Youth Services issued 14 museum passes.
Click HERE for more information about museum passes and discounts available through our library.
Seed Swap & Seed Library Kickoff
More than 100 members of the community attended the St. Charles Public Library’s Annual Seed Swap and Seed Library Kickoff on Saturday, February 18.
The library offers over 200 different heirloom seed varieties, free of charge, to grow and enjoy. Master Gardeners from the University of Illinois Extension were on hand to answer any gardening-related questions.
All of the seeds available are heirloom or open-pollinated, meaning that once saved and planted again, they will grow into the same type of plant.
The St. Charles Library is one of the first public libraries in Illinois to lend heirloom seeds.
Adult Outreach Programs
This month, the Adult Outreach team delivered 1,498 non-circulating and 868 circulating items to patrons and facilities in our community. Also, 8 circulating items were mailed out.
Youth Outreach Programs
This month, Youth Services selected 188 items to support classrooms for 11 teacher in the St. Charles community. Teachers in our area can request library materials and learn more about our teacher outreach HERE.
Working with D303 LRCs
February we celebrated Valentine’s Day at the middle school LRCs by making hot cocoa bombs! There were 20 participants per lunch period for a total of 60 at each of the middle schools, Wredling and Munhall. This program was featured in the district newsletter!
Winter Reading was a huge success! There were 277 total participants (compared to 123 last year), 183 finishers (compared to 65 last year), and 136,976 total minutes logged (compared to 39,561 last year).
Patron Interactions
IT Services
Wi-Fi Data Served this month: 2.86 TB
Door Count: 27,987 Visitors this Month
Website
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Total Website Hits
*There are no stats for November 2022 as we transitioned to our new website!