Hello Folks,

My apologies, that should be an approximate 6% increase in Library Education and Enrichment opportunities offered for children with a 2.5% increase in attendance.

Thank you,

Joseph Hamlin

Library Data Coordinator

Library of Michigan

702 West Kalamazoo St.

P.O. Box 30007

Lansing, MI 48909-7507

Ph: 517-373-3828

Email: hamlinj2@michigan.gov

URL: http://michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan

Visit the Michigan eLibrary at http://mel.org

From: Hamlin, Joseph (MDE)
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:56 PM
To: 'michlib-l@mcls.org'
Subject: Newest Installment of the Michigan Public Libraries Data Digest Now Available

Hello Everyone,

The newest installment of the Michigan Public Libraries Data Digest is now available electronically at www.michigan.gov/librarystatistics .

You can also order print copies of the digest by clicking on the Order Data Digest 2014 link or copying and pasting http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,2351,7-160-18668_69405_61707-294487--,00.html into your browser.

This year we noticed an 8% increase in the number of Library Education and Enrichment opportunities offered for children, with an attendance increase of 37.3%.

Total Enrichment Event attendance increased in all categories.

Electronic, Audio, and Video collections continue to increase while Print collections fell slightly.

MeL usage continued to be strong with 7.8 million full text articles retrieved, 15.8 million sessions, and 28.8 million searches.

MeLCat maintained a high request fill rate of approximately 90%, and public libraries loaned over 982,000 items during the 2013/2014 reporting year.