Temporary Library Grows in Popularity

In the annual presentation of the Library Commission to the Gilroy City Council, Commissioner Carol Smith highlighted some standout numbers related to the popularity of the : 

• 1,000–1,200 visitors a day

• 50,000 items checked out in April (up 26.25 percent over last year)

• Self-checkout machine use up to 40 percent (it was 16 percent this time last year)

• 600 expected for summer reading club )

• 90 percent of users are local (which limits the impact of the new $80 non-local fee for libraries in the system)

Head librarian Lani Yoshimura said that she expects all of those numbers to shoot up with the move to the new library in 2012.

Knowing that, Smith had some advice: avoid the bottleneck and get a library card before the move to the new library, if you don't have a card already.