My LINKcat AccountNow that the national, annual celebrations of libraries is over with for another year, I'm sure you're wondering what next exciting things are there to look forward to. Well, let me tell you! The next big thing that will be coming your way is another celebration. Sometime during the month of May - and this is only a guess at this point - we will be checking out our 5 millionth item. Many years ago, at some point that is lost in the mists of my memory (but which could be looked up) this library went from a manual, hand-charge method of circulating materials, to an automated, barcode-based method of checking out items. Well, since that point in time, we have checked out four million nine hundred and fifty-six thousand eighty-eight (4,956,088) items. That number was as of March 31st. So you can see we are getting close. Every month we checkout somewhere between 30 and 40 thousand items - so you can see, it shouldn't take us too much longer to hit the five-million mark. And of course we will celebrate that achievement, and of course whoever is the lucky person who checks out that five-millionth item will become an instant celebrity! We will be starting the "official" countdown soon. In the meantime, you can help move us closer to that five-million checkout mark by taking some of these new titles home and reading them. Enjoy!
