Fort William Library Profile 2014-2015

Annual Library Profile 2014-2015 Fort William Library

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Fort William Library Profile 2014-2015

Introduction Library Profiles are prepared annually for each library within the Highland Libraries network as part of our commitment to service improvement, and to engage with our communities. They serve three main purposes: -

To assist local staff to evaluate the performance of their library in relation to their local community.

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To assist managers to monitor performance and plan service improvements across the wider network.

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To provide a concise document that can be offered to any person or organisation seeking information about a library. Each library reflects its specific local community, making it unique. Any comparison of statistics such as issue figures must be made cautiously.

Performance and community information is based on library statistics, ward statistics or where available data relating to specific Integrated Learning Communities (Secondary school catchment areas)*. Ward or census information can be found at: www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/highlandfactsandfigures/wardstatistics

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Fort William Library Profile 2014-2015

Summary of Library and Services Available Library:

Fort William Library

Address

Airds Crossing High Street Fort William Lochaber PH33 6EU

Telephone No.

01397 703552

Email address:

[email protected]

Associated School Group: Lochaber High School Ward: Ward 22 Fort William and Ardnamurchan

Accommodation The library is located at the east end of Fort William High Street. It was refurbished in 2009 in line with current DDA laws and regulations. It also hosts a health and wellbeing area established by Macmillan Cancer. The library has a staff room and workroom which holds the stacks for Lochaber area.

Opening Hours Monday: 10:00 – 20:00 Tuesday: 10:00 – 18:00 Wednesday: 10:00 – 13:00 Thursday: 10:00 – 20:00 Friday: 10:00 – 18:00 Saturday: 10:00 – 13:00

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Fort William Library Profile 2014-2015

Accessibility Car Parking: The library has no designated customer parking. However, there is a public pay and display car park in Middle Street to the rear of the library.

Public Transport: There is a regular local bus service in and out of Fort William. The library is situated between two bus stops.

Additional information The library has automatic doors and is all on one level. It has some moveable height desks and a dual height enquiry counter. There are public toilet facilities located at Fort William railway station and in the public car park in Bank Street.

IT Equipment  8 People’s Network (free internet access) computers for adult use and IT Equipment           

2 for junior use. There is also a designated Health & Wellbeing computer. 2 staff desk computers 1 computer in the area base 2 computers in office area 2 staff laptops 2 plasma screens linked to laptops. 1 people counter 1 Self issue/discharge machine 1 colour photocopier/fax machine 1 colour printer attached to PN computers 2 microfilm readers 1 flatbed scanner

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Activities Regular Children’s Activities      

Weekly Bookbug Sessions during school term time (and summer and October holidays) Bookbug provision Summer Reading Challenge during summer holidays Class visits Outreach storytelling and Bookbug sessions School holiday activities

Regular Adult Events:            

You Time events for adults -every week during the school term Health and Wellbeing drop-in sessions Wednesday Knit & Knatter every Monday morning CAB drop-in sessions in Health& Wellbeing area Monday and Wednesday Digital drop-in sessions (for using online library resources) every 2 weeks Afternoon Adult Reading Group once a month Evening Adult Reading Group once a month Afternoon Teenage Reading Group once a month Scrabble Group once a month Samaritans drop-in session once a month Family History Group once a month (May-Sept) Silver Surfers (2 x 6 week blocks a year)

Special Events:        

Author visits October – Children’s Horror Writing Competition (p4-p7) and October- Illustration competition (younger pupils) October Halloween Event Book Week Scotland (November) – Big Book Bash Launch of Read Lochaber website You Time Sessions Reader in Residence events

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Fort William Library Profile 2014-2015

Library: Fort William 2013-14 61,879 344 2,118 11,481 51,099

Visitors Events Participants Computer Use Issues

Stock level 2013-14

Newly Added to stock

2013-14

Adult Fiction

3,181 Adult Fiction

664

Adult Non-Fiction

4,624 Adult Non-Fiction

387

Junior Fiction

1,830 Junior Fiction

194

Junior NonFiction

1,705

Junior Non-Fiction

171

Teenage Fiction

301 Teenage Fiction

51

Reference stock

569 Reference stock

19

Large Print books

497 Large Print books

120

Adult talking books

231

Adult talking books

173

Junior talking books

66

Junior talking books

17

DVDs

248 DVDs

138

Loans

Adult Fiction loans Adult Non-Fiction loans Junior Fiction loans Junior Non-Fiction loans Total standard print book loans DVD loans Talking book loans Large print book loans

2013/2014 % of total loans at this library 22,544 44.1% 12,011 23.5% 9,875 19.3% 3,031 5.9% 47,544

93.0%

1,765 1,777 1,666

3.5% 3.5% 3.3%

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Requests and Reservations 2013/2014 Requests and Reservations supplied within 30 days (percentage)

85.8%

Reference and Local History Collections

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Basic collection

Collection of Area significance

Collection of Highland Significance

Collection of National Significance

Reference Collection

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Local History

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Local Community Profiles Groups

No. in the local area

No. of groups actively using the library

No. of registered pre-school groups (incl. playgroups and nurseries)

5

4

No. of primary schools

6

5

No. of care homes

1

0

No. of special schools

1

1

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