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Can it be that television viewing is on the decline in Rappahannock County?
Maybe that’s not a valid conclusion to be drawn from circulation reports from the Rappahannock County Library but people here do appear to be reading more and possibly the extra time for books comes from giving less time to television.
This past year, circulation at the library was up by eight percent. The number of adult books checked out by patrons increased by 1,135 to a total of 10,022. Youngsters checked out 64 more juvenile books to bring that figure to 4,852.
The library’s circulation of non-book items jumped by 40 percent, going from 748 to 1,257.
The circulation figures here do not reflect a statewise pattern. According to Dale Snair from the state’s library development office, total circulation .among libraries throughout Virginia has shown a slight downward trend.
Librarian Pat Helmer reports that she’s noticed a lot of high school youngsters getting library cards for the first time. “We borrowed 181 books from the inter-library loan program, most of them for kids who were doing research papers,” she said. That represents an increase of 61 percent over inter-library loans in the previous 12-month period from July, 1981, to July, 1982.
The librarian answered 36 more reference questions in the past fiscal year while registered patrons increased by 118 people to a total of I, 210, about one-fifth of the county’s population. Over II, 800 people visited the library in fiscal year 1982, an fhcrease of 2,106.
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