Join Illinois Libraries on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 and participate in “Snapshot of a Day in the Life of Your Library” by collecting statistics, comments, and photographs from the day to provide indisputable proof that libraries consistently provide invaluable services to our community. Libraries can use the collected information from the “Snapshot Day” to promote the library to local elected officials, library boards, principals, State Representatives and Senators, and others to show that libraries are busier and providing for tomorrow’s needs with yesterday’s resources.

Libraries can use these results in articles for local newspapers and library newsletters as well as in letters to stakeholders and in promotional materials for the library.

Please Note: If you are reporting from a Library System, please feel free to email your data to kristy@ila.org. Example statistics: "____ delivery routes ran yesterday and our drivers stopped at __ libraries. The courier vans traveled ___ miles, which is equivalent to a one-way trip to ___________. Drivers delivered ____ items to our libraries and picked up ____ items."

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* 1. Library Name

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* 2. Person filling out the form

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* 3. Contact Information Phone and Email

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* 4. Library System

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* 5. Type of Library

Please provide the following statistics for April 13, 2011. If your library DOES NOT collect one of these statistics and is UNABLE to, please put a zero as the answer to that tally.

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* 6. Customer Visits/Door Count

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* 7. Internet/Public Computer Use (# of people)

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* 8. Number of Reference Questions

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* 9. Children Participating in Programs (Include school visits & library sponsored programs; youth through the 8th grade should be considered part of the children's programming statistics. High school students, grades 9 and up, should be counted as adults.)

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* 10. Adults Participating in Programs

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* 11. Circulation Total for the Day

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* 12. Database Usage (Divide internal/external uses if possible; this is the number of sessions per subscription database or the online library catalog.) (optional)

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* 13. By counting the hits to your Web page, how many contacts did your library Web page receive this day? (i.e., the number of times a library's Web site was accessed. Check the count on the morning of April 13th and check the count again on the morning of April 14th. Subtract the April 13th count from the April 14th count to get the number of hits.)

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