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| Kailey Snyder, a circulation clerk at the Wood County District Public Library in Bowling Green, Ohio, checks out books for library patron Matthew Trumbull. (Photo: Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune) |
At Tuesday's board of trustees meeting, Director Michael Penrod announced that the library circulated a record 605,799 items during 2012 - a new all-time record, and up nearly 11 percent over 2011.
"It's been a banner year, 2012," he said. "Your library is back."
Circulation was up at all of the library's locations - including online, boasting a whopping 149-percent jump in ebook circulation, amounting to over 13,300 items.
"Ebooks are bringing people into the library that didn't use the library before," said Penrod. "Again, (ebooks are) not replacing us, it's making us more vital."
