Patrons checked out over 1,900,000 items this year.
That’s That’s more than 5,000 items per day, all year long. No paywalls, no algorithms; just your library doing what it does best!
This year, JMRL
Celebrates
650,000 +
Library Visitors
105,000 +
Program Attendees
222,000 +
Holds Placed
This year, Patrons
signed up for over 9,600 new library cards!
Stacked together, these cards
would stand at two stories tall, or 22 feet of new patrons growing, learning, and connecting.
Your Top Genres
- Juvenile Fiction
- Adult Fiction
- Adult Nonfiction
- Young Adult
- Nonfiction
- Adult DVD
Top Titles – Adult Fiction
- The God of the Woods
– Liz Moore - The Frozen River
– Ariel Lawhorn - James: a Novel
– Percival Everett - The Wedding People
– Alison Espach - The Women
– Kristin Hannah
Top Titles – Adult Nonfiction
- The Let Them Theory
– Mel Robbins - The Anxious Generation
– Jonathan Haidt - The Demon of Unrest
– Erik Larson - Be Ready when the Luck Happens
– Ina Garten - The Serviceberry
– Robin Wall Kimmerer
Top Titles – Juvenile Fiction
- Dog Man: The Scarlet Shredder
– Dav Pikey - Dog Man: Twenty thousand fleas under the sea
– Dav Pikey - Dog Man: Unleashed
– Dav Pikey - Dog Man
– Dav Pikey - Dog Man: Mothering Heights
– Dav Pikey
Top Titles – YA Fiction
- Sunrise on the Reaping
– Suzanne Collins - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
– Suzanne Collins - A Court of Thorns and Roses
– Sarah J. Maas - The Hunger Games
– Suzanne Collins - Throne of Glass
– Sarah J. Maas
Top Titles – Cookbooks
- What to Cook When You Don’t Feel like Cooking
– Caroline Chambers - The Weekday Vegetarians
– Jenny Rosentrach - Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy
– Tieghan Gerard - Dinner in One
– Melissa Clark - Ottolenghi Comfort
– Yotam Ottolenghi
How the time flies when you’re
reading! Let everyone know how
your year at the Library has gone
in the comments, and be sure to
visit JMRL.org for access to the
online catalog, program calendar,
and digital resources.
Until next time, don’t forget to
