And Another Thing: January 2010
Count your blessings, bookworms. After winning a top score from Library Journal late last year (“Library Look,” January 2010), the Cuyahoga County Public Library system kicked off 2010 by announcing it had once again set record-breaking numbers during the previous 12 months, even with state funding cuts. Library cardholders borrowed 19,006,142 items from the system’s 28 branches — a 7 percent increase over 2008. Here are some of the other numbers behind the big year:
7.6 million: number of customer visits in 2009
232,422: increase over 2008 visits
30 percent: increase in visits since 2003
57 percent: print items versus all other items borrowed in 2009, a 3 percent jump over 2008
in the cle
12:00 AM EST
January 20, 2010