2016 Annual Report

Your Tax Dollars at Work – 2016

  1. 1,681 patrons: After removing outdated accounts, the library has a much more accurate count which is equivalent to about 40% of the county’s population.  That also does not include anyone who has been given permission to use a parent’s or spouse’s card.

  2. Winter: Avg. 146 visits/day with a peak count of 214

Summer: Avg. 211 visits/day with a peak count of 334

38,545 total annual visits (consistent with 2015)

  1. Staff: 1 full-time director at $41,500; 5 PT staff at $11.25 -$17.75/hr working on average 12 to 25 hours/week; Health insurance for director; medical stipends for staff

  2. Open 4 ½ days per week

  3. 16,884 items in the local collection, including books, e-books, audio books, e-audiobooks, movies and magazines/newspapers

  4. Easy access to over 1.4 million books and movies through the cooperative catalog shared with 100+ Colorado libraries; 2,502 books and movies borrowed from other libraries (up by 699 from 2015)

  5. 37,361 items circulated (1,893 more than 2015)

  6. 3,879 public computer sessions; 4,244 wifi sessions

  7. 54 children’s programs with 1,519 attending (292 more than 2015); 31 young adult programs with 507 attending

    1. Camp Happiness hands-on learning for ages 0-6

    2. Preschool and day care early literacy visits

    3. Elementary field trips and programs; book talks and visits with 5th grade

    4. Monthly tween/teen events (during the school year)

    5. Summer reading program for ages 0-18; 145 children (21 more than 2015) and 53 teens registered

  8. 128 adult programs with 1,023 attending

    1. Events throughout the year like author readings, workshops and community outreach events

    2. Three monthly book clubs, Scrabble group and writers’ group

  9. Book a Librarian service: One-on-one training by appointment on computers, tablets, ereaders, smartphones and popular software