2021-12-07 Services & Organisation Committee Meeting Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   7 DECEMBER 2021




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                           7 DECEMBER 2021

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           Loans and Visitation
           Over the last five years, Noosa Library Service’s decline in book loans and visitors accessing physical
           library facilities can be partly attributed to the $1.7M major renovation of our largest library branch —
           Noosaville Library. In 2017/18, this much-needed renovation resulted in the closure of our Noosaville
           Library branch, To ensure continued access to library services, two temporary lipraries were created
           and located within the Noosa Leisure Centre and the Noosa Civic Shopping Centre. Understandably,
           loans and visitation fell during this period of change for our Library Service,
           Fallawing this was the arrival of the Covid pandemic in 2619, Over the last two years, the continued
           Covid restrictions, lock-downs, reduced opening hours and limited programs have played a
           significant part in this decline.
           Regardless, in 2621/22 loans have started to increase with an additional 36,114 loans from the previous
           year and digital loans increasing by 42,487. Over 186,000 users still visited our library facilities last
           year! Our intent is to continue to increase loans and visitations by ensuring we have a diverse,
           dynamic and relevant collection and a suite of life-long learning programs that meet the needs of our
           community.

            Total Loans (Physical and Digital)                Total Visits (people through the door)
            700,000
           600,000                                            eeaese
                                                              350,000
            500,000                                           200,000
            400,000                                           250,000
            300,000                                           200,000
           200,000                        |                   150,000
                                                              100,000
            100,000
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                                                               50,000
                  BONGLEL ZOETIAE AOLBY ES RAED OILED                2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21
                        mLloans gs Physical = Digital                              a Visitation

             2016/17 | 596,665 | 572.444 | 24221                 2016/17              372,838
             2017/18    552,185     526,176    32,015            2017/18              287,071
             2018/19    521,931     477,905 | 44,626             2018/19              256,062
             2019/20 | 400,624 | 327,802       85.954 |          2019/20              260,884
             2020/21    436,738     338,297    98,44]            2020/21              186,228

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