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Benchmark for the Delaware Library Catalog

Written on: August 4th, 2009 by: in News

I think that we should give this one to ourselves anyway, but if not for the closure of Bridgeville for part of the month, July circulation for the DLC would have exceeded 200,000 transactions- it was actually 199,343 including renewals etc., which is a continuing upward trend for the year as would be expected during the summer.

However, this is despite the longer circulation term, which everything in July was subject to for the first time- and renewals are about 50% lower than they have averaged prior to June- which I think is a substantial savings to staff time as well as a huge patron convenience.

The reduced number of renewals caused the total circulation number for July 09 to be about 14,000 items fewer than July 08, but the actual checkout items number is almost 3,000 higher, which suggests that patrons are checking out more items AND having the time to enjoy them! The Checkout Items figure of 173,000 items looks to be the highest monthly total of items checked out since the consortium came together!

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