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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.