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Corona Public Library reports year‑end usage growth, strategic plan progress
Summary
Library staff told the board the library recorded increases in visitors, database use and program attendance during fiscal 2025 and described progress toward a multi‑year strategic plan; trustees pressed for outreach and facility updates.
Community Services Director Donna Finch told the Corona Public Library Board of Trustees that the library finished fiscal 2025 with year‑over‑year growth in patron visits, program attendance and digital use, and that staff are now implementing the library’s strategic plan approved by City Council in November 2024.
The library manager, Danielle Whittington, and literacy and community engagement supervisor Jennifer Bauserman presented numbers showing 296,946 door counts (an increase of about 25% from the prior year), 1,690 registered readers for the summer reading challenge and more than 1.6 million minutes logged in the summer reading program. Whittington said, “ReaderCon starts at 1 on September 28,” and encouraged community participation in the free author event.
Why this matters: the figures show growing use of library space and services, which staff said is guiding where to focus outreach,…
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