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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 2008, the Library presented
913 free events that reached
40,000 adult participants.
There are also about 75 children’s programs
presented every
month with an annual attendance of 35,214 adults and children.
In 2008, almost 2.8 million items
were checked out of the
library, a 10% increase over the previous year, and the second highest
in the
state. Of the items checked out, 993,832 were for children’s books.
Visits to the library increased
by 17% from 2007 to 2008 to
over 1.5 million. That’s an average of 4,300 library visitors every day.
Eugene
residents took out 18.4 library items per capita in 2008, one of the
highest
circulation rates in the state.
The library branches have 122
Internet and database
computers and people use them. There were close to 15,000 user sessions
each
month in 2008.
Summer Reading at the library
helped over 5,000 children and
teens keep up their reading skills while school was out.
The Library has a total of 380,000 books on
the shelves and
purchased 33,716 new books in 2008.
The Library received 121,046
reference requests in 2008.
Almost 92,000 Eugene
residents hold a library card.
The Library has 811 magazine and
newspaper subscriptions.
The Library has approximately
45,000 video materials of all
kinds; DVD’s, CD’s videocassettes and Library2Go downloadable digital
video and
audio books.
All three library branches have wireless internet
access.
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