Year end figures

 

The number of people entering the library buildings.

Foot traffic was down by 0.3% from previous year

The number of people entering library buildings during the 2007/2008 year  were:

Total

Richmond

Motueka

Takaka

324,543

168,182

89,545

66,816

Use of the Web site

Transactions via the internet are up 7.5% from previous year

The number of times our website was accessed was: 86,338

Transactions via the website:   14,888

 

The number of items borrowed:

Issues were down by 1% from previous year

Items borrowed at TDC Libraries during the 2007/2008 year  amounted to :  634,802

The size of collections

The Council’s library collection at 30 June 2008 amounted to :   126,393

The use made of value-added services such as the reference service, reservations and inter library services

 

Reserves were up 4% over previous year.

Value-added services :

reserves

Reference queries

Interlibrary loans

24,487

15,057

 

1,655