Hilliard Branch

We spent some time at the Hilliard Branch, took a tour around the library and met some wonderful staff.

Before we walked into the branch we saw their drive by book drop, very handy :)





Hilliard is the busiest CML branch out of the 22. They have 10 storytimes a week including Baby Laptime, Pre school, Toddler and Family storytime with an average of 40-60 children and adults and sometimes up to 90 in a session.

The Summer Reading Club program is run for kids, teens and adults. The teens programs are run by 85 volunteers called VOLUNTEENS. We are attending a Teen Advisory meeting this week so we will find out some more information about how they run their programs and how the teens make these events so successful.













Here is some other information you might be interested in.

• The attendance for children's and teens programs this year at Hilliard was 12,625.
• 7,806 signed up to programs and 5,186 completed the program.
• 192 programs were run for children this year.
• 1,053 teens signed up to the programs with 561 completions.
  17 programs run throughout the year with 380 teens attending.

Hilliard Branch has 28 public pcs including kids computers which are only used for games.

Hilliard's main focus is on Youth although there is a Job Help Centre which is used to help people with basic computer skills, job searching, creating a resume and an email account.


Ok, here is some interesting information about their reservations. They can have around 30,000 reservations per month and about 5,000 of these are not picked up.

Shelves and shelves of holds waiting to be collected.