From Newport Beach Indy
” The Newport Beach Public Library was recently named as a “Star Library” in a national ranking, authorities announced this week.Board of Library trustees announced Thursday that the city library earned the honor in a list compiled by the Library Journal, in its tenth edition of the Library Journal of Public Library Service. This year, 7,409 U.S. public libraries were scored on the LJ Index of Public Library Service, explained NBPL Marketing Specialist Katherine Mielke in the press release.They compared five areas: Total circulation, library visits, program attendance, public access computer use, and circulation of electronic materials. Of the 259 named as America’s Star Libraries, thirteen are in California with just four in Southern California. Newport Beach Public Library is the highest scoring library in Orange County. This is the fifth year in a row, and ninth time in ten years, that NBPL has been named a Star Library, according to Mielke.”
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