[Genealib] Decrease in onsite visitors to your historical/genealogical library

[Larry Oathout]

We are a public library, but we saw a 23% increase in onsite visits last 
year.  Does your director perceive that it is decreasing, or do you have 
numbers?
 
Larry Oathout
Director
Tell City-Perry County Library
Tell City, IN 47586
812-547-2661
(Fax) 547-3038
www.tcpclibrary.org


-----Original Message-----
From: "Cindy S. Drake" <cdrake at nebraskahistory.org>
To: <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:56:01 -0600
Subject: [Genealib] Decrease in onsite visitors to your 
historical/genealogical library


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Cindy S. Drake 
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu 
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:42 AM
Subject: Decrease in onsite visitors to your historical/genealogical library


I believe I have seen this topic mentioned before so I am hoping this group 
would be able to help refer me to previous posts or other articles on this 
topic.  Our director wants us to report on how we will justify funding for 
staffing in the future as fewer patrons use our facility onsite.  Our 
patrons expect more of our material to be made available online, but a lack 
of funding for staff and technology is making it difficult to proceed in 
that direction.  What avenues are historical/genealogical libraries using to 
justify revenue to maintain staff for patron services and technical support? 

 
 
Cindy S. Drake
Library Curator
Statewide Cemetery Registry Coordinator
Nebraska State Historical Society
1500 R Street, P.O. Box 82554
Lincoln, NE 68501-2554
cdrake at nebraskahistory.org
Voice: 402-471-4786
Fax: 402-471-8922
To learn more about the histories we share visit www.nebraskahistory.org
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