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85 San Marcos Public Library P.O. Box 907 . San Marcos, Texas 78667-0907 . Phone 512/392-8124 MEMO TO: Mayor Morris and Members of the City Council FROM: Members of the Library Board SUBJECT: Semi-Annual Report to the Council DATE: July 18, 1989 ------------------------------------------------------------ City ordinance (section 15-26) calls for the Library Board to make semi-annual reports to the City Council. It has been some time since we have done this, but we are pleased now to report to you some recent highlights and concerns with regard to our public library. USE OF THE LIBRARY: Use of our library has grown by approximately 20% annually in recent years. Not only are people using the library more, but more and more different people use the library every year. This year approximately 11,250 people will sign up for library cards. This is a 13% increase over the number of borrowers registered last year. People are using the library in a wide variety of ways. Of course they are borrowing books, but they are also coming to the library for films, videos, records, cassettes, art prints, audiovisual equipment, periodicals, and local history materials. This year over 240,000 items will be borrowed from the library collection. Approximately 16,000 people will use the library's reference and interlibrary loan services this year. Attendance for the library's summer reading program and other children's programs will climb to over 7,000. Adults will attend tutoring sessions and other library sponsored programs over 6,500 times during the year. DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIBRARY COLLECTION: The library collection grows by approximately 4,500 items each year and now includes a total of 60,650 books and 3,400 non-book materials. While the collection continues to grow in both breadth and depth, it still falls short of state and national standards for communities of our size. We have approximately 1.7 books per capita as compared to the American Library Association standard of two books per capita.