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

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

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Libraries Structure-a review Friday, Aug 8 2008

Tasman District Libraries is one organisation with 4 sites  which extends its services wider via the website and the link libraries.   The four libraries are in turn supported by  and serviced by the District Library .

 The District Library staff include:  the Libraries Manager, much  of Technical Services team, the Collections Librarian,  and to a greater or lesser degree all of the rest of the Management Team – Information Services, Children’s, Customer Services, and the Branch Librarians.

With the exception of the Branch Librarians, most of the people with District functions  actually work at the Richmond site and also work in the Richmond library. 

 As part of the management team, the Branch librarians also  have District functions -particularly in the areas of policy and procedures development.

All the work that is of a District nature supports all  library sites and also the web site.

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