Year in Review FY2020

Statistics for the Hinckley Public Library District from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020

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Numbers in parenthesis are FY19 comparison figures.

 

The library was closed from March 17th through June 22nd due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The statistics below show a year with only 75% of the normal open hours. Summer Reading 2020 was conducted fully online and offered fewer incentives because prize destinations were closed.

 

  • Usage of the library

The number of people that visited the library this past fiscal year was 11,379 (18,014). A total of 2,390 (2,980) people attended our programs with 1,369 (2,101) attending children’s programs, 1,017 (864) attending adult programs, and 4 (15) attending our teen program.  We offered 174 (208) programs – 69 (102) of which were children’s programs and 104 (105) were adult programs. We offered one teen program. The programming costs in FY20 were $3,014 ($4,348).

 

  • Summer reading stats

In FY20, 99 (200) children signed up for summer reading. 7 (26) teen readers and 72 (142) adult readers signed up. The 178 (368) total participants read 133,275 minutes during the two-month program, an average of 12 hours per person. The scavenger hunt missions were completed 52 times. The library purchased gift cards from local businesses for weekly prize giveaways.

 

  • Number of items checked out

8,183 (11,604) adult items were checked out in FY20. 7,632 (10,398) children’s items and 577 (1,036) young adult items were checked out for a total of 16,392 (23,038) items. This included 11,201 (16,582) books.  Magazines accounted for 518 (749) checkouts; DVDs accounted for 2,138 (2,739) checkouts. 733 (1,115) audio books were checked out. Our patrons checked out 1,748 (1,821) e-books.

 

  • Interlibrary Loan

This year we loaned 2,990 (3,806) items and borrowed 2,541 (3,124) from other libraries. 

 

  • Card holders

Of the 2,802 residents of our library district, 693 (683) are library cardholders. We sold 23 (20) non-resident cards this year.

 

  • Materials Owned

At the end of FY20, the library owned 16,655 (16,856) books, 89,137 (74,876) e-books, 1,309 (1,313) audio books, 1,346 (1,339) DVDs, and 38 (38) magazine subscriptions. The library completed a major weeding project during closure, removing 1,224 books from the adult fiction and picture book sections. The weeded items had not been checked out in two years.

                                                                       

  • 2,384 (3,286) patrons used our public computers in FY20 and 1,281 (1,708) used our Wi-Fi. Our Facebook page has 442 (340) followers. Our website had 4,085 (4,112) visitors this year.

 

  • Receipts & Expenditures

The library received $186,376 ($182,784) in levied local taxes. The library received Per Capita funds of $3,502 ($3,502) and $6,915 ($7,829) in private donations. For the first time, the library applied for federal E-rate funding to offset technology costs and received $1,017. Salaries and wages for all library staff totaled $112,636 ($108,614). Expenses for materials including books, magazines, DVDs, e-books, etc. totaled $21,557 ($22,832).

 

 A summary of the decreased statistics due to COVID-19 closure:

Visits to the library dropped 36%

Summer Reading registrations dropped 51%

Checkouts dropped 28%

eBook use dropped 4%

Computer use dropped 27%

 

Facebook followers increased by 30%