Cincinnati Area Library Use at Record Levels

From the Cincinnati Post:

People in Greater Cincinnati are using the library in unprecedented numbers. They checked out a record 13.8 million items from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County last year, up 3.6 percent from 2000, which also was a new high.

A third of those were something besides traditional books – videos, CDs, DVDs, or books on tape.

That doesn\’t count the 28 million hits on the Hamilton County library\’s Web site or research done on the library\’s 201 computer terminals, a number that will triple this year . . .

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