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Annual Report 2020

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Bringing Library Services<br />

to the Community<br />

Bookmobile<br />

Items Checked Out 8,220<br />

Stops Visited 469<br />

Events 28<br />

Bookmobile added new responsive services including customer<br />

holds, publicly available WiFi, and additional stops. The Gail Borden<br />

Bookmobile holds 2,500 items including books in English and Spanish,<br />

DVDs, audiobooks, Graphic Novels, Large Type and more.<br />

gailborden.info/bookmobile<br />

Bookbike<br />

Book Bike attended 29 community events reaching 1,480 customers.<br />

This environmentally friendly service is provided through crossdepartmental<br />

staffing and volunteers.<br />

ReaderShip<br />

Visits to daycare centers, preschools and other community location<br />

included .96 ReaderShip programs reaching 9,647 children prior to<br />

March 13, <strong>2020</strong>. In addition the ReaderShip placed 4,613 books in the<br />

hands of families at Food for Greater Elgin, the Mobile Food Pantry<br />

and at community events.<br />

8,220<br />

Items check out<br />

469<br />

Stops visited<br />

1,489<br />

customers reached<br />

at 29 events<br />

16<br />

9,647<br />

children reached<br />

prior to 3/<strong>2020</strong>

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