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DAVIESS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

- Anne Herbert, The Next Whole Earth Catalog.

A Snapshot of FY 2009/2010

DAVIESS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY l OWENSBORO KY

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In Fiscal Year

2009/2010…

JULY

2009 -JUNE

2010{ }

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73,700Daviess County residents

had library cards

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3,705Daviess County residents

became new

library card holders

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203people attended

FREE computer classes

from May – September 2010

The DCPL began offering basic computer classes in May 2010

74,511people used library public access computers

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25,810children participated in library programs

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13,037children received library outreach services

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1,570children were in the 2010

Summer Reading Program

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18,521books were read by

children during the 2010

Summer Reading Program

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206,000books were in the

DCLP collection

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$28,665was received from grants

and corporate donations

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83,288genealogy database

searches were made by

library customers

ALA Graphics

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32,696holds were placed by

library customers

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209magazine titles are

available for checkout

10,164magazines were checked out

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29,696music CDs were checked out

151,642films on DVD/VHS were checked out

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712,624items were checked out

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366,504people visited

the library

JUST KEEP GROWING!

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Cutting Libraries in a Recession is like Cutting Hospitals in a Plague.

– Heidi Goldstein