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Community Content __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lord Mayor’s Blood Drive
During the week of 23 rd to 26 th March a total of 393 donors attended the blood donation clinic.
Each of those donations can save up to 3 lives and credit is deserved by the people who turned up in such numbers; especially during such a stressful time. A consistent number of donors attended across the four days and this is a fantastic achievement when people are restricting movements and trying to staff at home.
The IBTS has expressed its gratitude to the lord and Lady Mayoress.
Library Service __________________________________________________________________________________________________
As would be expected the Covid-19 emergency has had a huge impact on the library service metrics.
Libraries have been closed to the public since 12 March, following an instruction from central government. Visits for the month – just 10 days – were 25,465, compared with 75,051 in February and 76,108 in January. Similarly, items borrowed fell to 24,618, compared with 55,398 in February and 56,810 in January. By way of contrast membership is up – to 34,361; this is because of people joining to download online resources (where you need to be a member and have a PIN). While visits to websites is down, this is mainly because the single most prevalent reason for consulting the website is to check opening hours, and this was not required in the second half of March. Downloading of eBooks and eAudio books is up by a significant amount – up by 1,794 on February, an increase of 35%, and numbers are up by 124% on the same month in 2019. This is one spinoff from people being confined to home.
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