Snaphot: One Day in the Life of Illinois Libraries

On Wednesday, February 10, 2010 the Glen Ellyn Library participated in this state wide event. The day started unexpectedly at 4:00 a.m. with a 3.8 earthquake. After the library opened at 9:00 a.m we collected statistics, comments and photographs of the activity in the library that day.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Visit our Flickr page to see more photos of the day.
 
 
 

Visit our YouTube page to see more videos of the day.
 
We had 786 visitors to the library that day.
84 people used public computers.
20 people used wifi.
There were 120 reference questions.
76 children participated in storyhours.
4 adults participated in book discussion.
There were 1779 items checked out.
783 people visited our web site.
 
 
A whiteboard was set up in the lobby so people could write a comment about why they came to the library that day.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thank you to everyone who wrote something on the board. Here are some of the comments that were made:
Work on projects
Storytime!
Pick up more Valentine's Day books
Book for Mom/daughter book club
Book on reserve/hold
Book for grandson
Deliver books to Shut-ins
Sort used books in the basement
Audiobook
To return books
Pick up a book on "hold"
Catch up on my correspondence
Meeting
Someone was kind enough to look up new bus schedules
Wonderful resources and very helpful staff
To do homework w/mom while brothers read books
Pick up tons of books/dvds on hold
Study
Tutoring
Use the Internet
Book Discussion
Fill out an application on-line
Play Games
Literacy Volunteer
Record books for Winter Reading Club