Library Report By the Numbers

Walnut Creek City Council members received an update on how many people are using the new downtown library. Is it busy or not? Well, according to Cindy Brittain, the head librarian, the library is doing a brisk business since it opened July 17.

    •    Since its opening, the Walnut Creek Library has been the busiest library in Contra Costa County. 

    •    The library had more than 8,000 visitors on opening day, and the library averages 1,500 visitors per day. 

    •    On average, 1,876 items are checked out each day.

Carole Wynstra, vice president in charge of marketing for the , later distributed the foundation’s 2010 Annual Report to the Council. Its highlights:  

    •    72.4 percent of Walnut Creek residents have library cards.

    •    427,208 items were checked out of both Walnut Creek libraries (the Walnut Creek  Library and the Ygnacio Valley Library) in the last six months of 2010. That figure makes the city's libraries the No. 1 most used in Contra Costa County. 

    •    There was a seven percent increase in circulation over the previous year.