Happy 100!

April 13, 2012 at 9:07 am | Posted in At the library, Fun Fridays, Pop in the library | Leave a comment
Tags: 100th post, library history, top 10 lists

It’s our 100th post on this blog, so we’re celebrating with 100 fun facts! Some top 10 lists:

Top 10 Non-Fiction of 2011

1. Official Driver’s Handbook
2. The Glass Castle
3. The Book of Awesome
4. The King’s Speech
5. Eat Pray Love
6. Life
7. Personal Budgeting Kit
8. Frommer’s Italy
9. Best of Foxtrot
10. Bossypants

Top 10 Fiction of 2011

1. Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
2. Sarah’s Key
3. Fall of Giants
4. Secret Daughter
5. Room
6. 10th Anniversary
7. Strategic Moves
8. The Judas Gate
9. The Reversal
10. Cutting For Stone

Top 10 Movies of 2011

1. Last Airbender
2. Salt
3. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Inception
5. Knight and Day
6. The Town
7. The Kids Are All Right
8. Life as We Know It
9. Case 39
10. Eat Pray Love

Top 10 CDs of 2011

1. P!nk: Greatest Hits So Far
2. Teenage Dream
3. Go With The Show
4. Grammy Nominees 2010
5. The Fame Monster
6. Animal
7. Now 16
8. A Year Without Rain
9. Much Dance 2010
10. Femme Fatale

Top 10 Kids’ Fiction of 2011

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The Ugly Truth
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Dog Days
4. Geronimo Stilton. The Quest for Paradise : the Return to the Kingdom of Fantasy
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The Last Straw
6. Geronimo Stilton. Wild Wild West
7. Thea Stilton and the Cherry Blossom Adventure
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Rodrick Rules
9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
10. Big Nate: In a Class By Himself

Top 10 Picture Books of 2011

1. I Have to Go!
2. Berenstain Bears Bedtime Story
3. We’re Going on a Book Hunt
4. Six Crows
5. Look at Me!
6. The Sneetches and Other Stories
7. Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book
8. Bear in Underwear
9. Shark Vs. Train
10. Building with Dad

Top 10 Kids’ Movies of 2011

1. How to Train Your Dragon
2. Barbie Fairytopia. Magic of the Rainbow
3. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1
5. Cars
6. Up
7. G-Force
8. Meet Diego!
9. Monsters vs. Aliens
10. Dora’s Christmas Carol Adventure

10 Great Books You Missed

1. Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies & Aid
2. The Caregiver’s Survival Handbook
3. Seeds, Sex and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World
4. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
5. On the Art of Being Canadian
6. Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending
7. Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada
8. Shipwrecks, Monsters and Mysteries of the Great Lakes
9. Labyrinth of Birth: Creating a Map, Meditations, and Rituals for Your Childbearing Year
10. The New Pension Strategy for Canadians

10 Library Statistics

1. We currently have more than 22,500 cardholders
2. Almost 12,000 people sign onto our computers each year
3. Over 200,000 items are checked out each year
4. Our 2,600 DVDs were checked out over 30,000 times in 2011
5. Almost 70,000 visits are made to the library website each year
6. Attendance at library programs is almost 20,000 people each year
7. Almost 4,000 holds are placed each year
8. You have access to over 30,000 e-books and e-audiobooks, with your library card
9. Library services cost Whitchurch-Stouffville residents only 8 cents per day
10. The library is open 340 days (more than 3,100 hours) each year

Your Library by Decade

2000s: 2001, moved into the Lebovic Leisure Centre

1990s: 1999, the Library turned 100

1980s: 1988, the first computerized library system is used to circulate materials

1970s: 1977, with a $20,000 donation from the Latcham Foundation, a new library opens in July

1960s: 1962, in the news: “Stouffville Library Board Appeals to Town Council for New Facilities”

1950s: 1953, annual circulation was 11,435

1940s: New books arriving at the library are a regular notice in the local Tribune

1930s: 1933, the Rules of the Library are published in the Tribune

1920s: 1927, a huge crowd gathers at Civic Square to celebrate the jubilee year just outside the library, then located in a building attached to the town clock

1910s: 1913, Stouffville receives approval for a $5,000 grant from the Carnegie foundation.  However, war interrupts the building plans