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Pleasant Hill librarian reports major circulation gains after remodel
Summary
Daphne Metpath, library media coordinator, told the Pleasant Hill School District board that a summer remodel and genre-based re-shelving have coincided with large increases in student borrowing: department data presented showed a 33% year-over-year rise, and month-to-month gains of 62% (January) and 108% (February).
Daphne Metpath, the library media coordinator for Pleasant Hill School District's middle and high schools, told the board the remodeled library and a volunteer-led re-shelving project have driven substantially higher student use.
"We had to pack up 1,000 books in boxes, and I personally re-sorted just shy of 3,000 fiction books by genre," Metpath said. She credited the change from author-order shelving to genre-based organization for making it easier for students to find books and for a marked rise in…
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