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Library Report
Port Arthur Public Library
September 2021 Report
•Total Checkouts: 978 (includes Books, Audio
Books, DVDs, and Music CDs)
•Total Online Checkouts: 514
•Reference Questions Answered: 742
Port Arthur Public Library
September 2021 Report
•Total Meetings in the Library: 52
•Total Patron Count: 3,383
•New Library Memberships: 80
•Renewal of Library Memberships: 48
Port Arthur Public Library
September 2021 Report
•Total Check Ins on Facebook: 6,316
•Public Computers were used: 647
•Total time Public Computers used: 454.22
hours with an average length time 42.1
minutes per session
•Public Wireless used: 236 times with an
average of 29 clients per day
Port Arthur Public Library
Summer Reading Program (SRP) 2021 Report
•Children Registered for SRP: 160
•Children Completed SRP: 58
•Sponsors: TotalEnergies -$600.00 (gift card
awards), TotalEnergies -$3,620.00 (billboards),
TotalEnergies -$4,080.00 (ad spots on
KFDM/KBMT), HEB -$550.00 (Food), Sertoma -
$750.00 (Awards), Friends of the Library -$500.00
(SRP Finale) and Starks Museum –Craft Packages
Port Arthur Public Library
After the Storm
Port Arthur
Public Library
makes national
library magazine
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Between 18 and 24 inches of water
filled the library.
Between 18 and 24 inches of water
filled the library.
Portable
ventilation
dries out
the library.
Salvaging what we could at the
Civic Center
Library
staff
keeps
smiling!
Staff works from trailers for over a
year.
Director Steven
Williams make
the most of his
corner office.
Synergy and Texas Municipal League
Intergovernmental Risk Pool provide
turnkey recovery program.
Adding Colors to the Building!
Adding Colors to the Building!
Shelves and Furniture!
Friends of the Wells Branch Library in
Austin send U-Haul full of books!
Coin club generously
donates to help
restore their favorite
meeting space.
Collection returns to the Library in
November 2018
Putting
books in
Dewey
Decimal
order.
Janell has been
with the library
since 1981. She
places the 1st book
back on the shelf!
Damage to the parking
lot is repaired in
February 2019
“Look around, people were hungry for their
library.” Dr. Finney, Library Board
Children’s Department!
Children’s Department!
Added a Classroom!
We’ll never forget Harvey
The “Ray Cline Courtyard”
The Family Statue
The Family Statue
The Master Sculptor, David Cargill
#PAPL 2.0
Better than before