Goleta Branch Library is a Busy Library
The Goleta Branch Library serves a population of about 90,000, many more than the population of the City of Goleta. In the fiscal year ending June 2006 the Goleta Library checked out 564,695 items. That’s a lot of items for a library that serves around 90,000 people. The reference desk deals with about 24,000 questions a year. That includes phone calls and helping people who come into the library. The number doesn’t include questions like “Has my requested book come in yet?” If the library doesn’t have the book, DVD, etc. that you want you can place a hold through the online catalog. You can even do this at home and after library hours. The Goleta Library filled 27,471 holds in 2006. If the Black Gold system to which Goleta belongs doesn’t have what you want you can request an interlibrary loan from outside the BG system.
That and more from the LibraryAlly Blog.
1 comment:
Allow me to gently suggest that while your recent postings about Goleta's busy library and about Airport construction are both important,it might be more important to alert Goletans to the Monday, April 16 Goleta City Council meeting where revision of our General Plan will be the main topic.
The General Plan will rule our development for the next DECADE. Staff has put forth nearly 200 changes, about 2/3 of which have been proposed by developers. Hmmm...the average Goleta resident should be both informed and concerned.
Please post this so "observers" of Goleta will not be so "nearsighted" that they miss Monday's historic meeting.
Thanks.
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