Year end data – 2007-2008 Wednesday, Sep 10 2008 

library news , tasmanlibrary-staff 7:35 pm

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

 

 

 

Some interesting graphs Saturday, Apr 12 2008 

Tasman District News and library news , , tasmanlibrary-staff 11:48 am

As part of the work we are doing for the Libraries LTCCP project and with the help of Mandy and our Tech Services team,  I’ve been looking at how our library users compare to our wider Tasman District Community.  The results have been pleasantly surprising.  One of the many positive findings is that our library membership is higher than we thought at 59% of the district currently library members. This count excludes any cards which haven’t been used since 2006.  Although we certainly want to see this number continue to increase this is better than what we previously thought.

I had hoped to paste in the charts but can’t work out how to do this.  I’ll continue to work on this but, the interesting point so far is that our library user demographics by age  reflect the population at large.  Young children  and the elderly are not over-represented, and in fact the 16-40 year old group is slightly over represented in our library users!

All of this data helps to inform the long term planning process