Worthington Libraries

The Worthington Libraries are their own library service with 3 branches. They have reciprocal borrowings with Columbus Metropolitan Library. In total they have 150 staff including administration. Recently they upgraded their library website and it was designed specifically for the library user. Customer feedback was collected through surveys and focus groups and it took about 14 months to plan and produce the new site. Their overall circulation statistics are 3 million items per year.

All branches use 'Power Walls' which are shelves around the library walls used for promoting new books and a great way to display popular and low circ items. Staff have found this to be very successful and have seen a rise in circulation statistics.

The Old Worthington Branch is the main library and their Head Offices. They have 45 public computers and their collection consists of 240,000 books, 26,000 cds and 14,000 DVDs. They have a children's room called the Bookingham Forest (7 storytime sessions a week) it is beautiful. This branch also has separate Tween and Teen rooms. It has a Worthington Room which contains the local history collection.

Their Northwest branch is a joint development between Columbus Library and Worthington Libraries. Their yearly circulation stats alone are 1.8 million.

The Teen area was designed by one of the youth staff members in the library and has lots of furniture and study spaces, computers and a huge garage door which is opened during the day for anyone to access the teen room and after school hours the door is closed for teens only.

Two of the branches have a drive up pick up service for their holds and an after hours locker(code needed) used to store holds that can be picked up anytime after hours.

Worthington Park Branch was opened a year and a half ago and is situated in a shop front. Because this branch is quite small they do not stock AV items but do reserve them in for customers. It has a huge children and junior area, 65% of this libraries collection is children and teen books.