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Show :GT0N-Circulars County Lib-' Lib-' . totalled 477,595 'up some 12,800 "'. rm the previous - library director re- ,a"ie time, library ' :ilS0 saw "quite a Vcially in the facility in Farm-r Farm-r Library Director ,1011 m a report to I : recently. The only ..;;'a decline was in , i . LQ8SC' down from ;! " 8 to 193,000 last I ,a1onL said she was ; y N caused the ; S'hat no changes s' ' in stops, with 1 ; ;SoneinCentervil-: ;SoneinCentervil-: ;-HWmarket, show- i : all-day use each j ,', f '"stance. The ; :; )0Perated by the ; Bard under :i navis County. : Mobiles serve 'hiL nf serv' has ' !ihr,ot,Controversy ! S board mem- :. regardless ) WHle cannot ftone mile of J Nllryoroper-' ate on school grounds during school hours. Board member, Robert Arbuckle, said he felt the bookmobile should be allowed within a mile of a library while Board Chairman Evan White-sides White-sides and member Eva Jean Law said they felt the rule should be retained due to budgetary restraints. "IF THE budget is restricted res-tricted how can we go into central cen-tral Bountiful, for example," said Miss Layton. "It serves areas farther away (from the library). That's what it's designed de-signed for." She .explained that bookmobiles bookmo-biles did not stop at schools during school time because that would mean a duplication of service between the school library and bookmobile. THE BOARD asked Miss Layton to review the bookmobile bookmo-bile policy at the time of her reinstatement early this year and a proposed revised policy will be presented at the April 28 board meeting. In further explaining county library growth over the past year Miss Layton said use ot meeting rooms at both branches bran-ches had seen "substantial growth. A fairly large circulation circula-tion growth was also recorded at headquarters library. MEETING ROOM use jumped from 7,128 at north to 41,701 and grew by nearly 7,000 at south branch, from 11,583 in 1978 to 18,277. No meeting facilities exist at headquarters head-quarters at present. Figures for use of materials at headquarters showed a growth from 36.588 in 1978 to 45,158 last year. Growth at the two branches was far less noteworthy, note-worthy, going from 98,267 at north branch to 102.236 and growing by less than 300 at south branch, from 136,149 to 136.423. OVERALL usage increased by 15.000, with heaviest usage reported at south branch. That library saw an increase from 79,814 to 83,719 while north grew by about 1.000. from 53.192 to 54.311. Headquarters Headquar-ters jumped from 23.217 to 26,068. The library acquired nearly 12.000 new volumes during 1979 with total holdings reaching 155.272. or just over one book or item per Davis County resident. That compares com-pares with about 200.000 at the Weber County Library, the county closest in population to Davis County. THE ANNUAL report indicated indi-cated nearly 30.000 cards in use countywide. or about one for every four residents, excluding ex-cluding Kaysville. which maintains its own library, t he budget totalled $653,000. with about half of that for salaries, tb |