Manchester City Library

Denise wrote an excellent post last week about all the services we offer here that can save you a bunch of money in tough times. It’s not just us, libraries are making national news:

Here are some of our statistics from 2008:

• 485,166 items were checked out (an 8.5% increase over 2007)
• 462,456 came into the buildings (a 6.1% increase over 2007)
• 22,046 items were added to the collection (an increase of 4.4%)
• 5,660 new Library cards were issued (an increase of 9.9%)
• We answered 94,483 questions (an increase of 1.6%)
• 76,013 people logged into our computers (an increase of 17.2%)