[Michlib-l] MeL Minute: How Does MeLCat Circ Stack up with Other Michigan Public Libraries?

[Norris, Sonya (MDE)]

Greetings Michigan Library Community,

Could you name the libraries with the highest circulation numbers of 2017? We asked the State Library Data Coordinator Joe Hamlin for some information from the most recent Public Library Survey and learned MeLCat is number 12!

Location


Total Physical Circulation


Kent District Library


7,045,551


Ann Arbor District Library


6,501,554


West Bloomfield Township Public Library


2,774,828


Capital Area District Libraries


2,189,403


Rochester Hills Public Library


1,849,839


Clinton-Macomb Public Library


1,712,291


Kalamazoo Public Library


1,658,332


Genesee District Library


1,437,664


Grand Rapids Public Library


1,278,705


Canton Public Library


1,224,159


Farmington Community Library


1,081,644


MeLCat


1,080,000


Troy Public Library


1,073,031


Traverse Area District Library


1,069,893


Herrick District Library


1,035,104




The busiest month of 2017 for MeLCat, like most other years, was January. In January 2017, a grand total of 101,366 items were loaned! We've only gone up from there: this past January 105,178 items were loaned through MeLCat. Our best guess as to why January is such a popular borrowing month lies in the traditionally slowest month: December. After a break around the holidays it seems Michiganders are kicking everything back into gear in January! Who knows, maybe it is all those New Year's Resolutions?

All we know for sure is that the success of MeLCat would not be possible without two elements: LSTA funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services<https://www.imls.gov/>, and all the countless library staff around the state who make sure it continues to run.

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Sonya Schryer Norris

Library of Michigan
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Lansing, MI 48909
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