Excerpts from the Librarian's Annual Report
19 October 2009

1.0 Statistics

1.1 Membership:

There were 626 paid adult members on 16 October, 4 more than last year's 622 adult members. There are 553 child members, up from 459 last year. Since the children do not pay, this is a fairly arbitrary number. I have not had the time to remove inactive child members. Tom Matthews reports having caught zero mice; he subcontracted out the removal of a raccoon.

1.2 Circulation:

	2008-2009	2007-2008	Change
Adults	6434	6787	-5,2 %
Children	2668	2840	-6,1 %
School visits and loans	722	1098	-34.2 %
Children and school	3390	3939	-21,0 %
Total	9824	10725	-8,4 %

Depressing. I have always considered circulation as a good measure of our usefulness. However, more and more we have people using the Library’s Internet facilities, both our computers and our wireless access. We have no measure of this service.

1.3 Inter-Library Loan:

The Library borrowed 126 books on Inter Library Loan, 50 % more than last year. These books came from 27 different libraries. The Library also lent 11 books, the same as last year. The Internet is a huge help and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec has a great tool for helping find the library that has the book we need.

1.4 Documents Catalogued:

		2008-2009	2007-2008	2006-2007
English Adult	Books bought	180	133	136
	Books gift	18	48	92
	Audio-cassettes bought	1	4
	Audio-cassettes gift	1		14
	Audio CD bought	13	12
	Audio CD gift	3	5	16
	Video-cassettes gift	5		7
	Large print bought	30	46	35
	Large print gift	4
	DVD gift	4		4
English Children's	Books bought	102	102	108
	Books gift	9	1	24
	Audio-cassettes gift			2
	Video-cassettes gift		9	3
Total English		364	364	441
Adulte français	Livres achetés	159	114	133
	Livres donnés		4	33
	Livres à gros caractères		4	33
Enfants français	Livres achetés	113	108	169
	Livres donnés	4	1	4
	Vidéo-cassettes données			1
	DVD donné	1
Total français		283	227	340
TOTAL		591	781	659

Switching to ordering English books from Chapters has allowed us to buy more English books. Gifts are down, but that is because I am very choosy about what I keep. People want to read the latest best seller!

1.6 Weeding:

294 books were weeded. Since we added 647 books, it is not enough!