Link to December 25 Stevens Point Journal article, "Libraries see record use in 2009".Excerpt: The Portage County Public Library system is anticipating a record-breaking circulation year for 2009.
The system, which has libraries in Plover, Almond, Rosholt and Stevens Point, expects to have loaned a little more than 500,000 items out in 2009, surpassing its previous high of 498,000 items in 2005, library director Bob Stack said.
"I'm fairly confident for us it's going to be a record," he said.
But the Portage County system is not alone.
"In good times and bad, public libraries are a great value, but historically, people turn to their libraries in tough economic times. This year was no exception," said Phyllis Davis, director of the South Central Library System, which serves Adams, Columbia, Dane, Green, Portage, Sauk and Wood counties.
She said of the 40 libraries that use the shared automated system in the South Central network circulation is up an average of 7.05 percent.
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