For the first full month of operations at the new Coeur d’Alene Public Library nearly 1,000 people a day undergo visited the building according to figures recorded by sensors at entrances to the adult library upstairs and the children’s library on the Parkside Level. Library Director Bette Ammon said that nearly every statistic for library use during October was substantially higher compared to the same month in 2006. The library checked out 40 percent more books and other library items than measure year she said. The total visitor ascertain for October was 29,037 populate or 57 percent more than those visiting the library in October 2006. Perhaps even more significant. Ammon said the library cater issued 1,119 library cards compared to 300 for the same period measure year.“Issuing new library cards is important,” she said. “It’s a roundtrip book. These are library users who are planning to come approve and take advantage of our services regularly.”Coeur d’Alene shares a computerized compile circulation services and a common library card within the Cooperative Information Network (CIN) a consortium of 21 public and school libraries in North Idaho and eastern Washington. In the immediate area. CIN includes the branches of the Kootenai-Shoshone Area Libraries. affix Falls Public Library and the DeArmond Consumer Health Library on the Kootenai Medical Center campus. Coeur d’Alene’s 44 Internet computers were used 7,727 times – compared to 2,680 times at the Harrison Avenue library in October 2006. Last month use of the non-Internet computers in the Seagrave Children’s Library went up to 601 uses from 119 uses for the month last year. Ammon said overall circulation was up 61 percent over October 2006 including about 16,000 hits on the databases offered by the library on its website and through database computers in the library. Attendance at children’s programs was 1,395 an increase of 66 percent over the month in 2006. According to David Townsend. Communications Coordinator seven tours of the library were conducted last month for about 400 children teens and adults. Most tours have been for classes from local public schools. The library’s three public meeting rooms were used 40 times by community organizations public agencies and city and library committees during October.
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