NY's Libraries: Essential

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Participate in SNAPSHOTNY: A Day in the Life of a Library
Pick any day between today and February 28th to take your photos and videos. Pick one of those days to collect your data.

Send your photos to lpost@commservices.net

PHOTOS FROM SnapShotNY 2013

Charlotte Branch, Monroe County Library System

Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library

See all the 2013 Photos for SNAPSHOTNY: A Day in the Life of a Library

How do people use library services on a typical day? Document your library — how busy and how essential your library is with statistics, pictures, videos and user comments?

Join New York’s libraries and participate in SNAPSHOTNY: A Day in the Life of a Library by collecting photographs and videos between now and February 28th and choose one day to track your stats.

Ready to join? Then pick a day and collect statistics on:

How many patron visits?
How many people used your public computers?
How many reference questions did your staff answer?
How many children participated in programs (including school visits as well as library-sponsored programs)?
How many adults participated in programs?
What was the total circulation for the day?
How many hits did your website receive?

And then click HERE to fill in the survey so we can collect your data. (I’ll get you a new link later today)

We’d also appreciate it if you ask your patrons why your library is essential to them. Collect their responses and then tell us the top five: HERE

And then click HERE to fill in the survey so we can collect your data. We’d also appreciate it if you ask your patrons why your library is essential to them.