2014 Annual Report

Annual Report of the Trustees for 2014

We had a busy programming year in 2014, with an end-of-summerreading visit from Mad Science of Southern NH, a talk by Kevin Gardner, author of The Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls, and a Skywatch hosted by members of the New Hampshire Astronomical Society. The first two visits were made possible by donations from library users, and the Skywatch team donated their time.

We continued our summer reading program, book group, and museum pass program for another year, and held our first book sale in years. It was good to have a chance to introduce ourselves to members of the community who might not have been familiar with us, or the library, and we plan to hold another book sale in a couple of years.

Thank you very much to Judith O’Donnell and to Phil and Marylou Desmarais for their generous donations to the library, and to everyone else who donated time or funds to the library this past year.

We removed 164 names in an overhaul of our patron files, and added 33, giving us a total of 586 registered users. 2,183 people visited the library. We added 592 books, audiobooks, and DVDs, and removed 978 from our painfully overcrowded shelves, leaving us with a total of 11,147 materials. 5,865 books, audiobooks, DVDs, museum passes, and magazines were checked out, along with 567 downloadable audiobooks and 782 ebooks. We loaned 407 materials to other libraries, and borrowed 164.

Our most popular DVD of 2014 was a tie between Frozen and Dallas Buyers Club, and the most popular book was Sue Monk Kidd’s Invention of Wings.
 

Respectfully submitted,

SUSAN BARNES, Chairman
MARTY J. BENDER, Treasurer
NANCY E. PICTHALL-FRENCH, Secretary
Library Trustees