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Library Use Figures Show Dramatic Jump |
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Written by David Townsend
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Friday, 07 May 2010 11:30 |
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Whether fueled by economic need or attracted by access to library Internet computers the use of public libraries is up across the country and the Coeur d’Alene Public Library is no exception.
Use statistics for the first seven months of the current fiscal year – Oct. 1, 2009, to the end of April 2010 – reflect figures that are up in nearly every category compared to a year ago.
The seven-month door count by the end of April was 147,606 people, up 19 percent compared to Oct. 1, 2008, to April 30, 2009, when 123,914 people entered the library. The door count is generated by electronic sensors at the entrance to the adult library area and the Seagraves Children’s Library on the lower level.
The counters don’t register people who are only using the libraries three meeting rooms. But the those numbers are also up. The meeting rooms were reserved and used 523 times over the seven-month period compared to 469 times for the earlier period or an increase of 12 percent.
In a related figure 9,874 adults and children attended programs at the library compared to attendance of 6,735 for the same period last year, an increase of 47 percent.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 12:01 |
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Library 'Friends' Top 200 |
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Written by David Townsend
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Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:20 |
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Facebook, other online services keep patrons informed
The Coeur d'Alene Public Library's friends just rose to 201 – not the “Friends of the Library” kind – the number of its fans on Facebook, the online social networking website.
The library has had a Facebook and Twitter presence for several months. The online sites are among the ways library patrons and fans can keep track of what is going on at the library.
“The library has had a website forever, of course,” said David Townsend, Library Communications Coordinator. “That’s our primary link with the community to provide news and access to online services for our patrons.”
Library Information Technology Coordinator Christopher Brannon has linked the website – www.cdalibrary.org – to Facebook and Twitter so that when the library website’s news section is updated the Facebook and Twitter sites also receive updates. Videos about the library, produced by Jeff Crowe for CDA-TV Channel 19, are uploaded to the Facebook page, too, and to the library’s YouTube account.
Patrons who have the free Facebook accounts can join the Coeur d’Alene Public Library Group and receive automatic updates.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:24 |
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Food for Fines Generates Quarter Ton of Donations |
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Written by David Townsend
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Monday, 01 March 2010 11:11 |
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 Coeur d’Alene Public Library patrons donated nearly a quarter ton of food for people and pets as part of the recent “Love Your Library: Food for Fines” project.
Patrons were given the opportunity to clear overdue fines by bringing in a donation of nonperishable food between Valentine’s
Day and Feb. 28. The amnesty did not apply to charges for lost or damaged items.
On Monday 487 pounds of food were delivered to the Community Action Partnership Food Bank and several items of pet food were given to the Kootenai Humane Society.
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Last Updated on Monday, 01 March 2010 11:12 |
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