Fiscal Year 2023 – 2024 Update
- Continued to grow the library’s collection with new and popular titles
- Updated all non-fiction areas with up-to-date information that pertains to relevant and popular interest
- First annual Giving Tuesday Campaign added over 150 NEW board books, picture books, juvenile, and young adult books to our collection.
- Plans to continue program & include adult books, DVD’s and STEAM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Arts/Math)
- Updated children’s collection by removing damaged and/or noncirculating titles to allow for growth
- Added two children’s computers
- Continued to add STEAM kits
- Social media reach has grown by 143.9% and has reached over 23,500 users
- Over 5,400 people have visited the Facebook page
- Facebook followers have grown by 7%
- Facebook live children’s book reading (461 views)
- Expanded DVD collection to include new releases
- Removed noncirculating audiobooks to allow room for puzzle exchange program
- Utilized available space by rearranging materials to better serve patrons
- Added to Large Print collection
- Easter Egg hunt and photos with Easter Bunny (86 participants)
- Pre-K crafts and story time Tuesdays (188 participants)
- Flag retirement program
- Bilingual collection growth
- Bilingual reading time (120 participants)
- Burnet County Tourism info
- Shredding events for area residents
- Free notary services
- After school chess club and kids game day
- Quarterly craft project (book, Christmas trees, paper flowers, patriotic wreaths)
- Eyeglass recycling location
- Santa in the library photos (24 participants)
- Kindergarten field trip (50 participants)
- Friends group fully funded the purchase of 451 books for the library collection (FY 2023-2024)
- 459 donated items added to the library collection in FY 2023-2024
- Total collection size 11,212 items including books, DVDs and STEAM kits
- 4,293 items checked out from the library in FY 2023-2024
- Community garden participation for 10 months is 372 people and a lot of vegetables & herbs
- Computer classes
- Tax preparation assistance
- Voter registration cards available to public
- 1040 tax forms available to public
- Offered eclipse glasses free to public
- Summer reading program (SRP) had 29 active participants
- 16,149 minutes read by SRP participants
- FOSCL donated a new book to each SRP participant
- 16 corporate sponsors for SRP
- Total of 1240 volunteer hours
- 14 prizes awarded to SRP participants
