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West Des Moines library reports visitor gains, summer reading registrations top 4,000
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Library Director Tracy Glass told the City Council on Aug. 4 that visits rose 36% and circulation increased 7% year over year; the library expanded outreach and programming including a mobile outreach “wow truck.”
Tracy Glass, director of the West Des Moines Public Library, told the City Council on Aug. 4 that library visits rose 36% and circulation increased 7% compared with the prior year. Glass told the council the library also registered more than 4,000 people for its summer reading program, a 13% increase from last year.
The growth came as library staff adjusted programming and outreach, Glass said. “We raised the number of people coming to our programming,” she said, and credited staff for designing…
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