Closing The Book: How You Used Your Bucks County Free Libraries In 2021

Yardley PA

30 December, 2021

6:25 AM

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Press release from the Bucks County Free Library: December 29, 2021 While numbers don't tell the whole story, they do illustrate how many people benefit from Bucks County's libraries! Here's a snapshot of how you turned to Bucks County's libraries in 2021. Most Popular Adult Fiction The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah A Time for Mercy by John Grisham Sooley by John Grisham Eternal by Lisa Scottoline Anxious People by Fredrik Backman Most Popular Adult Nonfiction A Promised Land by Barack Obama Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Becoming by Michelle Obama Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age by Sanjay Gupta Untamed by Glennon Doyle Most Popular Children's Books Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End by Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway by Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney Most Popular Young Adult Books The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Most Streamed Movies The Pigeon Finds A Hot Dog! Tom and Jerry My Secret Billionaire Just for the Summer Sweet Home Alabama Most Streamed Television Shows Doc Martin Wisting Detective Ellen Lucas Deadwater Fell Death in Paradise Library Visits Bucks County Free Library's seven branches were visited over 550,000 times in 2021. On average, 800 people signed up for a library card each month. Library computers were used over 61,000 times. Library programs were attended about 18,000 times. Checkouts Bucks County library cardholders borrowed about 1.5 million items in 2021. 40 percent of all borrows were digital items. Half of those digital borrows were e-books, and more than a third were e-audiobooks. More than 51,000 items were added to the library's collection. This press release was produced by the Bucks County Free Library. The views expressed are the author's own.