Library Services & Programs

• Live Homework Help – online tutoring service for 4-12 grades
  • 1,450 tutoring sessions
  • 508 hrs of tutoring in math, science, social studies & English
• Summer Reading “Paws, Claws, Scales & Tales”
  • 7,800 children participated, 57% increase
  • 51% completed the 10 hour reading challenge
  • 6,681 children and parents attended educational
  and entertaining events
• Winter Reading – adult reading program
  • 2,000 adults participated
• Volunteer Program
  • 350 Library volunteers
  • 4,000 volunteer hours, $74,000 value
• Click! Computer Training – computer classes and tutoring for novice computer users
  • 43 Volunteer Trainers/Tutors
  • Almost 7,000 hours of basic computer training

Library Collection

• More books, movies and music
  • 740,698 total Library materials
• “Classics2Go” – new collection of the top 75 classic titles, in student-friendly formats
• “Taste for Reading” – promotion increased circulation of cookbooks by 80% in November
• “Most Educational Booth” – KRL won the blue ribbon at the 2006 Home & Garden Expo

Facilities

• Grand re-opening Downtown Bremerton Library (April)
• Groundbreaking for new Little Boston Library (June)
• Renovation of Sylvan Way Library (ongoing)
• New replacement bookmobile (in-service June ‘07)
  • $135,000 funded by the KRL Foundation