Facts & Figures
Today is 7/24/2008
Annual Reports
Statistics
Usage Statistics |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Total Circulation |
1,232,476 |
1,222,190 |
1,256,993 |
1,311,122 |
1,361,888 |
Books/Magazines |
742,221 | 700,816 | 715,185 | 725,014 | 742,304 |
Videos, CDs, DVDs, Audiobooks, etc. |
461,356 | 521,374 | 541,808 | 586,108 | 619,584 |
Total Collection |
180,793 |
183,945 |
193,153 |
201,275 |
204,977 |
Average Loans per volume |
7 | 6.7 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.6 |
Items added to collection |
18,862 | 15,631 | 21,860 | 23,052 | 24,805 |
Items withdrawn from collection |
16,793 | 12,479 | 12,653 | 14,545 | 22,574 |
Borrowers |
32,604 |
31,179 |
31,058 |
27,176 |
26,405 |
Ames registered borrowers |
23,889 | 22,597 | 22,476 | 19,536 | 18,808 |
Circulation per Ames borrower |
51.6 | 54.1 | 55.9 | 53.3 | 57.4 |
Circulation per capita for Ames |
24.3 | 24.1 | 24.8 | 25.8 | 26.1 |
% of Ames population |
47 | 44.5 | 44.3 | 38.5 | 36.0 |
Visitors |
451,041 |
457,441 |
471,164 |
476,517 |
459,000 |
Programs |
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Youth/Family-# of programs |
408 | 531 | 485 | 1,008 | 1,502 |
Youth/Family-program attendance |
10,422 | 13,635 | 14,051 | 22,068 | 29,148 |
Young Adult-# of programs |
49 | 52 | |||
Young Adult-program attendance |
709 | 1,230 | |||
Adult-# of programs |
144 | 196 | 282 | 222 | 314 |
Adult-program attendance |
6,372 | 10,386 | 13,146 | 10,476 | 10,882 |
Total Programs |
552 | 727 | 767 | 1,279 | 1,868 |
Total Program Attendance |
16,794 | 24,021 | 27,197 | 33,253 | 41,260 |
Meetings |
873 |
1,008 |
1,018 |
1,383 |
2,201 |
Attendance |
20,704 |
25,527 |
27,356 |
24,528 |
41,778 |
Volunteers |
509 |
594 |
355 |
534 |
525 |
Hours contributed |
10,629 | 9,785 | 12,454 | 14,752 | 13,681 |
FTE (Full-time equivalent) |
5.1 | 4.7 | 5.9 | 7.1 | 6.6 |
Interlibrary Loans |
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Borrowed for APL users |
2,048 | 1,057 | 1,104 | 905 | 790 |
Loaned to other libraries |
3,382 | 3,445 | 3,529 | 3,465 | 3,773 |
Reference Questions |
69,940 |
48,499 |
49,478 |
48,048 |
52,780 |
Electronic Resource Usage |
21,691 |
20,285 |
68,069 |
69,985 |
77,110 |
Computer Use |
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| Number of Customers | 47,775 | 54,100 | 54,650 | 51,918 | 56,040 |
| Hours of Use | 26,131 | 40,600 | 41,000 | 36,900 | 35,491 |