LIBRARY SERVICES

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LIBRARY BOARD

• Kevin Davis - Parish President
• Ann Torczon - President
• Dr. Argiro Morgan - Vice President
• Meg Cammatte - Secretary/Treasurer
• Kristin Lyons
• Barbara Morgan
• Silvia Muller
• Kristen Scott

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LIBRARY SERVICES

• Adult, Children, Young Adult Book Collections
• Video and Audio Collections
• CD/DVD Collection
• Magazines Newspapers
• Genealogy Local History Collection
• Family History Center
• Reference Services

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LIBRARY SERVICES (cont.)

• State Depository Collection
• Online Databases
• Computer Services
• Adult, Children Young Adult Programming
• Meeting Rooms
• Class Visits
• Forms (Passports, Tax, Voter, etc)

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REFERENCE SERVICES

• In-house Reference
• Telephone Reference
• E-mail Reference

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CHILDREN YOUNG ADULT PROGRAMS

• Summer Reading
• Storytime
• Crafts
• Prime Time
• Monthly Teen Programs

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ADULT PROGRAMS

• Cultural Programs
• Book Clubs
• LEH Reading Programs
• IRS Help
• Author Visits

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COMPUTER SERVICES

• Computer Classes
• Internet
• Databases
• E-mail
• Word Processing
• Educational Software
• Childrens Software
• Genealogy Software

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SPECIAL EVENTS

• Walker Percy Symposium
• Whisperings Cemetery Tour
• Genealogy Open House
• Christmas Around The World
• Exhibits

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BRANCH LOCATIONS
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ABITA SPRINGS

• Date Established 1950
• Current Building 1973
• Collection 17,772 items (3.4)
• Circulation 18,303 (1.8)
• Square Feet 1,600

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BUSH

• Date Established 1952
• Current Building 1975
• Collection 16,499 items (3.2)
• Circulation 21,151 (2.0)
• Square feet 1,600

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CAUSEWAY

• Date Established 1999
• Collection 19,248 items (3.7)
• Circulation 51,846 (5.1)
• Square feet 4,900

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COVINGTON

• Date Established 1950
• Current Building 1987
• Collection 114,154 items (22.3)
• Circulation 204,444 (20.00)
• Square feet 18,252

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCE CENTER

• Date Established 1999
• Workstations 19
• Scanners 4
• Genealogy Data Disks 300
• CD-ROM Software
• Study Room
• Square feet 2,000

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FOLSOM

• Date Established 1950
• Current Building 1987
• Collection 21,775 items (4.2)
• Circulation 20,754 (2.0)
• Square feet 2,000

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LACOMBE

• Date Established 1950
• Current Building 1993
• Collection 15,193 items (3)
• Circulation 26,966 (2.7)
• Square feet 1,500

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LEE ROAD

• Date Established 1987
• Current Building 1987
• Collection 19,057 items (3.7)
• Circulation 21,502 (2.1)
• Square feet 2,000

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MADISONVILLE

• Date Established 1950
• Current Building 1987 (Built in 1906)
• Collection 22,937 items (4.5)
• Circulation 23,619 (2.3)
• Square feet 2,000

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MANDEVILLE

• Date Established 1950
• Current Building 1986 (Enlarged in the 1990s)
• Collection 83,156 items (16.2)
• Circulation 208,002 (20.5)
• Square feet 10,000

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PEARL RIVER

• Date Established 1950
• Current Building 1987
• Collection 23,664 items (4.6)
• Circulation 24,525 (2.4)
• Square feet 2,000

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PONTCHARTRAIN

• Date Established 1993
• Collection 20,727 items (4)
• Circulation 33,156 (3.2)
• Square feet 1,900

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SLIDELL

• Date Established1950
• Current Building 1989
• Collection 137,549 items (27)
• Circulation 322,572 (32)
• Square feet 22,000

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Pontchartrain Branch

• No Patron Restrooms
• No Meeting Room
• Inadequate space for Childrens Activities
• Insufficient Seating and Study Areas
• Insufficient staff working area
• No room for additional books

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Mandeville Storytime
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Mandeville Storytime
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Mandeville Storytime
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Your mission

• We think St. Tammany deserves better.
• The library board needs your help to articulate a
  vision of library service for St. Tammany Parish
  in the 21st Century
• How should St. Tammanys library system grow?
  Are there peer libraries for the library to
  emulate? How does future growth support current
  long-range plans?
• How should the library system be configured in
  the Parish? Main or co-main? Regional or
  community libraries? What is the appropriate
  mix?
• What defines a main or a co-main or a
  regional or a community library?
• How large should the branches be?
• Where should branches be located?

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How do we get there?

• Review existing resources and information
• Demographic, political, economic conditions in
  the Parish today and in the year 2015 (New
  Directions 2025)
• Local library use trends
• Peer library comparative benchmark analyses
• Other data sources???
• Develop alternate service scenarios
• Simultaneous focus on the Parish at large and its
  individual communities
• Type of branches
• Number of branches
• Distribution of resources
• Estimate space needs based on resource
  distribution models
• Recommend the optimum facilities scenario(s) to
  the Library Board

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Space needs assessment calculations

• Establish the design population
• Projection of population (20 yrs preferred)
• Accommodate extended service population
• Collection space
• Bookstock _at_ 10 volumes per square foot
• Periodical display _at_ 1.0 titles per square foot
• Periodical backfiles _at_ 0.5 square feet per title
  per year retained
• Nonprint holdings _at_ 10 items per square foot
• Patron computer network stations _at_ 50 square feet
  per station
• Reader seating space
• Allow 30 square feet per reader seat

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Space needs assessment calculations

• Staff work space
• Allow 125-150 square feet per work station
• Meeting room space
• General meeting space _at_ 10 square feet per seat
  (plus 100 square feet for a presenter)
• Conference space _at_ 25 square feet per seat (plus
  10 square feet per seat in gallery)
• Childrens programming space _at_ 10-15 square feet
  per seat (plus 80 sq.ft. for a presenter)
• Computer training space _at_ 50 square feet per seat
  (plus 80 square feet for a presenter)

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Space needs assessment calculations

• Special use space
• Add the allocations for collection space, reader
  seating space, staff work space, and meeting room
  space
• Divide that total by a factor ranging from 4
  (which produces a generous allocation) to 6 (for
  a minimum allocation)
• Nonassignable space
• Add the allocations for the first five types of
  space
• Divide that total by a factor ranging from 3 (for
  a generous allocation) to 4 (four a minimum
  allocation)
• Add all six allocations for a space needs
  estimate tailored for your library

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POPULATION GROWTH
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Parish Growth

• 2002 Population 201,502
• 32.4 Growth Since 1990
• Fastest Growing Parish
• 5th Largest Parish in State
• 4th Largest Parish by 2010

LATEST CENSUS
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Checkouts Per Resident in 2002

• East Baton Rouge Parish 6.3 per resident
• St. Tammany Parish Library 5.0 per resident
• Shreve Memorial (Shreveport) 4.0 per
  resident
• Jefferson Parish
  3.6 per resident
• Orleans Parish
  2.2 per resident
• National Average
  2.8 per resident

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Public libraries nationwide serving 175,000 to
225,000 population

• St. Tammany 50thile 75thile
• Books 434,046 409,650
  530,371
• Audio 15,307 15,307
  27,728
• Video 18,511
  11,325 18,371
• Nonprint 7.79 7.00
  9.55
• Public PCs 69
  74 107
• Circulation 1,012,841 1,118,899
  1,613,136