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Every day at opening time, crowds of people stream into the Downtown Eugene Public Library and the Bethel and Sheldon Branches. They are old and young, grandparents and parents with children, business owners and retirees, students, and individuals on a personal research mission. They come to find out about a prescription, attend a story time, read a magazine, check on their investments, study for a test, plan a trip, write a résumé, find a good book, or take home some music or a video. They come from all corners of Eugene and from all economic circumstances.

Facts About the Eugene Public Library

In 2010, the Library presented 813 free events that reached 38,725 people.

In 2010, almost 2,929,080 items were checked out of the library. Of the items checked out, 57% were for children’s books.

Over 1.5 million people visited the Library in 2010. That’s an average of 4,000 library visitors every day.

The library offers 97 Internet and database computers, which are heavily used. There were close to 20,000 user sessions each month in 2010.

Summer Reading at the library helped over 6,000 children and teens keep up their reading skills while school was out.

The Library has over 500,000 items on the shelves and purchased 66,152 new items in 2010 with help from the Foundation; including books (audio and e-books), movies, magazines, and CDs.

The Library received 128,960 reference requests in 2010.

Over 100,000 community members have a Eugene Public Library card.

All three library branches have wireless internet access.

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