Milne Library Front ESL student Pulling ILLs
 		 Sorting newspapers Checking in backdates
Story time

160 visitors

150 web visits

3 new cards issued

 600 materials circulated

300 InterLibrary Loans and returns

3 meetings with 19 attending

1 story/craft with 15 attending

 Sorting ILLs
Craft time

12 newspaper readers

16 quiet studiers

23 computer users

4 laptop Wifi users

Snapshot Day
A Day in the Life of the Milne Public Library
April 13, 2011

5 Reference questions

6 Early Learning Station users

 Helping with ELS
Visiting author

6 hours of community volunteer shelving

 

90% of our patrons came in for books, dvd's, or other materials

23% came in for research

16% came for e-mail (or social networking)

16% came in for homework

13% came for meeting or other reasons

 Playing Chess
Computer Lab Early Learning Station Homework Help Special Raffle Italian Club

Some of the wonderful comments follow:

"The Milne Public Library is a valued community resource, particularly for the young people of Northern Berkshire County. Our five-year old daughter has enjoyed a wide range of activities developed by the library staff --- from summer reading, to story time, to guest performances."

"I have done all of the above (from a checklist of possible activities) at one time or another. This is the best library in the whole world. My family loves it. Best regards."

"I volunteer every week --- love the library. It meets so many needs --- volunteering allows me to give back for all the pleasures the library affords me."

"We could not live without the library."

"I love the Williamstown Library! Books I request come in super fast. The selection of books-on-tape is awesome. The staff is great --- very friendly. This is the best small library I've ever been to. Two things I'd like to change: the auto-fragrance thing in the computer room .... and a technical/computer-oriented person to answer all my hard questions."

"The library is SO IMPORTANT to me as well as to the wider community. I'm proud to live in a town with such a good library."

Thank you to everyone for graciously allowing us to take photographs and gather quotes. We will be submitting these statistics to the Massachusetts Library Association for their "Snapmass" database and will link to their page soon. The Staff

 

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