A record number of residents are attending Wyndham libraries, with 774,072 visits to a library.
Program attendances rose to almost 100,000 during the 2022-23 financial year, setting a new benchmark.
Wyndham City’s Learning City portfolio holder, Cr Jasmine Hill, said: “It’s fabulous our community is making the most of Wyndham’s free library services. In the 2022/23 financial year, we delivered 4,266 activities with a huge 95,972 attendances.”
“This includes not only programs and events, it also includes a wide variety of other services such as Justice of the Peace and IT sessions and printed and online activities such as competitions.
Highlights included:
- Our busiest month was May with 503 programs delivered
- Programs delivered to more than 27 locations
- 13 Author talks delivered with 270 attendees
- 51 Bi-lingual sessions with 870 attendees
- 14 competitions with 4,927 entries
Cr Hill said: “Our Early Years and kids activities were the most popular sessions overall which reflect Wyndham’s demographics which is predominately young families.”
“Engaging with children is so important to increase literacy levels and instil a love of lifelong learning and encourage social interaction.”
During 2022-23, a total of:
- 361 Baby Times were delivered with 9991 attendances.
- 779 Rhyme times with 29,519 attendances (including outside sessions)
- 534 holiday activities delivered with 18,248 attendances.
“It’s wonderful to see so many people coming to the library and utilising all the libraries have on offer,” Cr Hill said.
The figures are likely to keep Wyndham City in the top five program attendances in the state when benchmarked against other Victorian Library Services.
The huge increase in numbers reflects our two new services - Williams Landing Library Lounge and the Pop-Up Library Van and also the rising cost of living and desire for free activities.
For more information visit: https://www.wyndham.vic.gov.aulibraries