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Corona City Library reports growth in e‑collection; plans Aspen Discovery catalog rollout in April
Summary
Library staff reported a large e‑collection, rapid growth in digital usage, a $116,000 e‑media budget and an April rollout of Aspen Discovery to integrate the catalog and electronic resources.
Librarian II Jennifer Marlatt told the Corona City Library Board of Trustees that the library’s total collection now includes roughly 2.4 million titles — about 82,000 physical items (3%) and roughly 2.3 million electronic titles (97%) — and that digital circulation has grown sharply in the past year.
Marlatt said the library distributes e‑media across four major platforms: Canopy (about 34,000 titles; pay‑per‑use model), Palace Project (about 82,000 titles; consortium model and single‑use lending), Cloud Library (ebooks, audiobooks and magazines; about 12% of the e‑collection) and Hoopla (approximately 1.8 million titles; pay‑per‑use and simultaneous access). She told trustees the combined platforms supported roughly 71,000 borrows last year and accounted for about 20% of total library circulation. Overall usage grew about 130% year‑over‑year, and Hoopla represented about 60% of that growth, Marlatt said. The library budget for e‑media platforms last year was about $116,000 and is funded from the library’s budget.
Marlatt described Aspen Discovery, a unified discovery platform the library plans to launch in April to consolidate catalog search, e‑collection access, local history items and room reservations. She said Aspen Discovery will present availability across platforms (for example, showing a title’s availability in Palace, Cloud Library or Hoopla) and will include a mobile app (Aspen Lita) that can provide patrons with a scannable electronic library card. Marlatt said some implementation steps remain and the full calendar integration and finer details will be completed as the April rollout proceeds.
Trustees asked about usage breakdowns for Hoopla’s movies and TV content versus reading formats; Marlatt said staff can provide a follow‑up with detailed Hoopla usage analytics. Trustees also asked whether the $116,000 figure included outside contributions; Marlatt said that amount was drawn entirely from the library budget.
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