2013 ANNUAL REPORT
Northland Library enables, empowers and encourages lifelong learning and discovery.
NORTHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY I 300 CUMBERLAND ROAD I PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15237
Executive Director
From Amy Steele, Executive Director:
In 2013 Northland welcomed 1, 113,009 visitors into the building far exceeding our strategic plan goal of 750,000 visitors per year by 2015! In addition we are serving our residents in many ways outside of the building. Our remote lending kiosks in the Borough of Franklin Park and Ross Township offer extended hours to borrow library materials. Our electronic downloadable collection doubled from 2012 to over 88,800 items. Programs provided something for everyone from Ambassador Dan Rooney speaking on the history of Allegheny City to “That Guy with the Birds.” There were history programs, wine tasting classes, Affordable Care Act programs, and sleepovers for families and for stuffed animals. Some programs featured local authors and others new technology such as tablet computers and digital photography. For 2014, we have plans to meet you where you are: we are heading out into our communities – to the Ross Community Center, area preschools, and other school visits for children, to classes and programs for adults at Blueberry Hill Park and the Marshall Community Center. A brand new website will be your virtual library offering more online services than ever before as well as access to our growing electronic collection which will include downloadable music and streaming TV shows, movies and music. To better serve our residents, we will be updating our public computers and meeting room technology. Watch for us at your local community days and find out what else is new at Northland.
Administration – Current
Executive Director: Amy Steele Director Support Services: Robert Kolessar Director Marketing & Communications: Santina Balestreire Foundation Director: Kellie M. Kaminski
Northland Public Library Authority Board Members
Number of Board Members as specified in Library’s By-laws: 7 Borough of Bradford Woods Mike Slater mslater@consolidated.net Franklin Park Borough Jane Hopey - Secretary janehopey@hotmail.com Town of McCandless John Murtagh, Jr. - President jack.murtagh@zoominternet.net Cynthia N. Potter - Vice President cnpotter@aol.com Marshall Township Jason Bragunier - Treasurer bragunier@zoominternet.net Ross Township Chris Rand Eyster eysman@earthlink.net Dan DeMarco commward1@ross.pa.us Library Solicitor Alan E. Cech aeccech@morellalaw.com
Circulation Statistics 2013 The following is a breakdown of our circulation statistics for 2013: Registered Cardholders: 39,896 (out of service area of 81,118)
Library visits: 1,113,009
Supporting Municipality
Cardholders
Bradford Woods 520 Franklin Park 6,668 Marshall 2,701 McCandless 14,237 Ross 11,226 Other (internal, county, etc.) 65 e-circulations (downloadables)
Reference Questions Received: 58,249
Items Circulated: 1,127,071
Items Circulated 11,009 158,283 54,549 306,465 179,741 343,380 59,898
Bookmobile & Lending Kiosks: These provide outreach borrowing service for library customers. Bookmobile Circulation: 8,069
Lending Kiosks: 5,677
Municipality
Items Circulated
Bradford Woods Franklin Park Marshall McCandless Ross County Other
644 2,353 3,515 762 2,843 3,496 133
NEW LIBRARY RESOURCES AND OFFERINGS Atomic Training offers award-winning video-based training for today's most popular software, social media and mobile devices, all free to library card holders. Atomic Training offers unlimited access to over 500 easy-to-understand online training videos. You can watch at the library or access this valuable resource on your home computer or mobile device anywhere. Stop by the Computer Center if you have any questions about Atomic Training. CQ Researcher is a newly purchased database exclusive to Northland Library. It is available through our website’s navigation menu. CQ Researcher is a database of in-depth, authoritative reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923 — each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.
E-Book, E-Audiobook, e-Magazine Downloads are available for your ipad, Kindle or Nook! Did you know you can easily have access to these materials for free from Northland? Another really great feature is that you will never incur a late fee on e-materials because once the item is downloaded to your device, it automatically expires and the files are removed on the material due date. For downloading instructions visit the Computer Center page on the library’s website. Free music downloads! We are pleased to announce Freegal (rhymes with legal). Freegal is a free music service that allows three free song downloads per week per library card. There are thousands of artists, tens of thousands of albums, and millions of songs. The Freegal Music website has hundreds of genres of music and is rich in many of them. The content is based upon agreements with over 28,000 music labels, including the labels of Sony Music Entertainment. One very unique feature is that you get to keep the downloaded music on your device. Please visit the E-resources area of our website for more information about this new service.
Hoopla is a digital media service that lets you stream movies, TV shows and music content through all major browsers and/or the Hoopla app for Apple or Android devices. Anyone with a valid library card will be able to borrow eight items per month. Video content can be borrowed for two days. Music content can be borrowed for seven days. All titles are always available -- no holds, no waiting -- and the items will be returned for you at the end of the lending period, so there are never any late fees.
Lucky Day Collection – Northland is pleased to offer this new program which offers access to the best-selling new releases in books and newly released popular DVDs. Is today your Lucky Day? Will it be tomorrow? Look for new content coming to Northland's former Bestseller collection. Now called the Lucky Day collection, this area includes the latest print Bestsellers and the newest DVDs. All content in the collection is non-holdable, first come, first served. Make your day lucky!
Library Collection
Represented are the various materials included in our collection:
Total cataloged items: 196,586
(excluding electronic resources)
Format:
Print E-Books Audio - Physical Units Audio - Downloadable Videos/DVDs - Physical Videos - Downloadable Audio Books Current Periodicals - Print Music CDs Magazines/Newspapers CD-ROM/Other Local/Cooperative Agreement Databases State Databases
Number of Items: 169,748 71,868 13,311 15,132 13,270 1,510 7,617 225 5,757 4,669 293 15 15
Library Staff: The library staff consists of librarians, other professional staff, as well as necessary support staff. Total number of employees: 75 Full-Time: 27 Part Time: 48
Total number of Volunteers: 249
Department/Area:
Total
FT
PT
# Librarians
Accounting Adult Services Children’s/Young Adult Circulation Computer Center Executive Director Foundation Office Manager Maintenance Marketing & Communications Shelvers Technical Services Volunteer Coordinator
2 7 8 21 5 1 1 1 3 3 15 7 1
2 4 5 6 2 1 1 1 - 2 - 2 -
3 3 15 3 - - - 3 1 15 5 1
6 6 1 2 -
Adult Service: Children’s/Young Adult Computer Center Internal Meetings Outside Groups
223 191 210 Classes/81,241 logged sessions 136 369
(Total hours: 9,097)
Library Programs: Total programs: 1,129
Approx. Total Attendees: 13,416
2013 Financial Information: Northland Public Library receives 60% of its funding from the five supporting municipalities (Bradford Woods, Franklin Park, Marshall, McCandless, and Ross). The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and locally generated income make up 20% and the Regional Asset District (RAD) make up the remaining 20% of funding. Presented is a breakdown of our revenues for 2013. Total Financial Support: $2,445,272
Source:
Amount
Municipal Contributions RAD Contributions State Contributions Other Sources Table Gaming Foundation Access PA Contribution
$1,453,779 $ 487,384 $ 245,749 $ 193,472 $ 45,817 $ 19,071 0