Hello Everyone, The newest installment of the Michigan Public Libraries Data Digest is now available electronically at www.michigan.gov/librarystatistics<http://www.michigan.gov/librarystatistics> . You can also order print copies of the digest by clicking on the Order Data Digest 2014 link<http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,2351,7-160-18668_69405_61707-294487--,00.html> or copying and pasting http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,2351,7-160-18668_69405_61707-294... 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. 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<mailto:hamlinj2@michigan.gov> URL: http://michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan Visit the Michigan eLibrary at http://mel.org<http://mel.org/>