Dell Rapids Carnegie Library Director Brittany Moeller gave an updated report from the summer programs to the Dell Rapids City Council during the council’s regular meeting on Monday, August 7th.
“We’ve had a really good year so far and an amazing summer,” Moeller said.
She reported that the library has seen a little over 430 people registered for the summer reading program which is up about 30 people from last year. Moeller says they have seen an average increase of about 20 people per year over the last three years.
A new addition to the library this summer was the addition of summer programs for adults. An average of 10 to 15 people attended the program per week. The library also saw an average of 15 to 20 teens per week for their programs.
Computer classes for seniors were also held for the first time by the library. Moeller said that between 5 to 10 people came every week to learn everything the basics of turning on a computer to learning Facebook. There are plans on doing more classes for seniors sometime during the fall.
Dell Rapids City Council member James Borchert said, “I just want to say in the last few years if you look at where the library has been and where it’s gone with the increase in programming for adults and now seniors and children, it’s just been the gem of this community. A lot of towns this size don’t have a library, and they certainly don’t have a library like this.”