Library
use Up as
times get
tougher

LIBRARY USERS in North
Vancouver District
borrowed 617,663 books and
other materials in 1982 for
an average of 9.51 per
resident, the library's
recently published Annual
Report reveals.

Overall circulation was up
four and a half per cent last
year, ~with the biggest in-
creases coming in the
Children’s Department and
at the Seycove Branch.
There was also significant
growth in usage of the
services to the homebound
and handicapped.

Chief Librarian’ Enid
Dearing suggests that the
economic climate has much
to do with the heavy library
use. Books on resusmes, job-
seeking and money
management were in high
demand, as was light fiction
and “escapist” literature.

Library programs. which
are free. were often filled to
capacity, especially those for
children. There were many
people using the libraries at
all times of the day. not just
during the traditionally busy
evening and weekend
periods.

The year 1982 was also
one of technological ad-
vances in the library. The
computer-produced catalo-
gue became accessible to the
public with the arnval of
microfiche readers in each
branch: it is hoped that by
the end of 1983 the con-
version of catalogue records
from cards to microfiche will
be complete, making the
card catalogue obsolete.

A popular addition to the
hbrary's collection last year
was the small collection of
instructional video-tapes in
the VHS format. Covering
topics from aerobic dance to
furniture ore-finishing = and
dog training, the tapes are in
high demand with do at
vourselfers

booking to the future. a
Mayor  opropect for some
library staff was par
Hoipation in preparation of
the Capilano Feasibility
Study The Capilano Library
has for some years been
Mruggling owith cramped
quarters and a leaky roof
the feasibility study now
completed outhines opthons
for the future of the branch

The complete 1982) An
nual Report of the Dastriet
Library may be caamined at
any of the hbrary’s three
brane hes

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