View all of the Westerville Library highlights from 2011, including our annual statistics for checked out items, visitors, event attendance and more.

1. with Ohio libraries
Celebrity visits Through our membership in the OhioLINK and SearchOhio
consortiums of public and university libraries, our library
Acclaimed film producer Ken Burns
users have enjoyed access to more than 50 million items.
came to lunch at the library, with 100
This year, the library helped form an alliance, using
fans and history buffs in attendance, as
cutting edge software, giving that same access to libraries
part of his September stop in Central
throughout Ohio, at minimal cost per library.
Ohio to promote his documentary
“Prohibition.” Items from the library’s Anti-
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Saloon League Museum were used in
items borrowed 8,637 items borrowed 22,867
the production shown on PBS. Burns praised the library for preserving
items loaned 10,927 items loaned 22,904
the temperance collection and the building that housed the League’s
national headquarters in 1909. The event was hosted by the Westerville There are so many wonderful books that have been written
Library Foundation. over the centuries, books that will thrill you and make you cry,
and bring laughter to you and keep you up all night. They’re just
waiting for you - waiting to be found, right now.
Also interested in our temperance
materials, Mo Rocca, correspondent – Bob Greene, author and CNN contributor
for the CBS Sunday Morning program,
visited the museum. He filmed an State Funds Personnel $3,021,431
interview with staff and photographed 54% $2,621,867 Supplies $150,618
examples of the League’s posters and
Local Operating Levy Materials $634,996
pamphlets printed here.
39% $1,936,661 Capital Outlay $328,535
Fines, Interest & Misc. Contract Services $740,190
Tunes & Tales 7% $352,368 Other Expenses $16,053
world premiere Total $4,910,896 Total $4,891,823
For 23 years, Tunes and Tales has
been a favorite attraction for families,
2011
combining concert music by the
Westerville Symphony with a classic story
narrated by a library member. This year, thanks
annual
to PNC Arts Alive, a new score by internationally recognized composer rated a Five-Star Library
Lowell Liebermann was commissioned and made its world premiere here
Top 1% of 7,513 libraries rated
at Tunes and Tales. The Velveteen Rabbit was performed, with Liebermann
report
in attendance, for a total of 400 appreciative listeners.
“I’ll beg my parents to take me to the library so I can check out the Playaways and play cool 126 South State Street
Michael Fultz Karen Petersen Karen Scholl
games. I think it’s cool that a library has CDs and movies. I never thought that you could Westerville, OH 43081
Kay Hedges Joshua Platt Jack Shinnock
listen to music while reading.”
Deanna McDaniel
– from a thank-you note written by a 6th grader (614) 882-7277
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2. “I appreciated your class on eBooks Tuesday evening. The next evening, my daughter was planning to drive to
campus to check out biology books when my husband suggested we look in eBooks. Sure enough, she found 2
books and downloaded them onto her school laptop. It was just the coolest thing . Thank you so much for
giving me new knowledge that is benefitting all of my family. “ – from a letter to the library
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visitors to the library & website resources
your support books, movies, music, magazines & more
732,609 The library welcomed 83% more
With your support and the hard work vote YES on 19 in the library website visitors than last year. Can
Our wide range of materials makes
of many volunteers, the library’s critical Westerville Public Library we make your visit more pleasant?
2,022,765 Please tell us or email 294,863 it possible to take home a framed
need for funding was met when the materials art print, puzzles for the kids or
website visits answers@westervillelibrary.org.
2-mill levy request passed November 8. The outpouring of gratitude owned a Playaway personal audiobook,
and relief from everyone who relies upon library resources and batteries included.
services has been enormous. Thanks to the levy funding, we will
be able to focus on bringing back Sunday hours, restoring the book usage
budget, performing building maintenance and more. checking out library materials library link
As the 4th busiest public library
daily delivery to Westerville schools
Valuable 1,965,438
facility in Ohio, your library
Library Link transports materials
circulated 5,913 items in an average
partnerships items circulated day. You used the handy self- 19,557 requested by teachers and students
items requested to every school building, every day.
checkouts for 822,000 items.
In a year of decreased budget, we were grateful and delivered This year we increased deliveries by
16.31%.
for our partners. The City of Westerville
sponsored twelve electricity usage monitors
available for check-out with your library card.
programs
library events & community meetings
This popular device gauges the efficiency of outreach
your appliances. delivery to senior facilities, homebound
1,497 Entertaining and informative
library programs programs and meetings attracted customers and preschools in our district
In another joint effort, a Choose to Read Ohio grant from the State
1,379 64,498 attendees. It’s convenient to
Library made it possible to welcome Will Hillenbrand, author and
use online reservations for meeting Stuck at home temporarily or
illustrator of 55 books for children, to Westerville. community 49,981
space and tutor rooms. permanently due to surgery,
meetings items circulated disability or health issues? Let us
by Outreach know and we’ll deliver the items
With gratitude Services you request, each month.
cardholders
With thankfulness for the support of our registered library card users
community and partners, we are more strongly
than ever dedicated to our mission in 2012: You can use your library card to check
furnishing you with the materials and 98,350 out a Blu-ray movie, download an eBooks skyrocketing
information you need while providing library eBook or eAudiobook for your Kindle,
refer to Consumer Reports or study a eBook downloads exploded in popularity this year.
outstanding customer service. cardholders
foreign language using Mango. Jumping by 125%, use of our eBook titles increased to
21,735. Those wishing to test drive some of the devices
Don W. Barlow
stopped by the Adult Services area to experiment with
Executive Director
loading library titles onto a Nook, Kindle, iPad and more.