Genevieve Luthy

So yeah, it's a real place, I think, where people can come and make connections and build community.

Yeah, so that is our highest circulation on record.

But it is not, I mean, it's typical, right?

It's higher than previous years, but it's not that much higher.

We have been well used for years.

And I think the big thing that we're seeing is that those digital checkouts are growing, particularly since the pandemic.

But that 6.5 million digital titles includes more than 5 million checkouts from Libby, our e-book and e-audio platform.

Sure, yeah.

So Libby is an e-book and e-audio app.

Its parent company is Overdrive.

And so if your library uses Libby, and many do across the country, I would say, you can download the app and you can sign in with your library card and you have access to all of the e-books and e-audio books that your library has purchased in Libby.

So you can borrow them from home.

You never even have to come into the library.

That's absolutely right.

Yeah.

And I think that's something that sometimes people are confused by because it's a digital file.

In theory, you should be able to have multiple people accessing at once.

But

The way publishers have set it up for libraries is they want it to work the same way as a physical book.

So you have to wait for someone to return the digital file before you can borrow it.