[Michlib-l] Michigan Activity Pass (MAP) Usage Stats: Over the Top!!!

[Jeanette Marks]

Thank you, Jim and hard working team, for all you do for MAP and us 
librarians!
  
 Jeanette Marks, Managing Librarian
Bay County Library System
Pinconning Branch Library
218 Kaiser St.
Pinconning, MI  48650
PH  989-879-3283 ext. 207
FAX 989-879-5669
jmarks at baycountylibrary.org
  

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 From: "Jim Flury" <jflury at tln.lib.mi.us>
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Subject: [Michlib-l] Michigan Activity Pass (MAP) Usage Stats: Over the 
Top!!!   
All,

The Library Network (TLN) is very pleased and proud and excited to announce 
that earlier this morning, thanks to the generosity of our cultural 
partners, the promotional efforts of our sponsors, the never ending, often 
late at night, enhancements made by our software 
developer/programmer/engineer, and a whole bunch of hard work by Michigan's 
librarians, we have SURPASSED LAST YEAR'S TOTAL NUMBER OF MICHIGAN ACTIVITY 
PASS CHECKOUTS! Apologies for the all caps shout, but I think that's pretty 
cool! Yes, Michigan's library patrons have now checked out, in the middle 
of the eighth week of Statewide MAP Year 3, more MAP passes than was the 
case in the full 52 weeks of MAP Statewide Year 2, which ran May 24, 2014 
through May 23, 2015. The pass MAP reservation that put us "over the top" 
was reserved at Rochester Hills Public Library http://www.rhpl.org/ for the 
Detroit Institute of Arts http://www.dia.org/ Yea for RHPL and DIA!

http://michiganactivitypass.info

Just as gratifying to us, if not more so, than the much higher utilization 
rate of the program, is the fact that we are seeing MAP checkouts all 
across the state, at libraries where we've never seen them before. MAP and 
its predecessor program were always extremely popular in the metro Detroit 
area. It has taken a couple of years for statewide MAP to really take off, 
but the program is now well on its way to becoming the truly statewide 
project we envisioned when we launched that trial MAP balloon in May, 2013. 
Onward and upward!

Thank you for your support and promotion of the Michigan Activity Pass 
program.

Sincerely,

Jim Flury

Jim Flury
Technical Services Manager
The Library Network
41365 Vincenti Court
Novi, MI 48375
248-536-3100 x133
Fax 248-536-3098
jflury at tln.lib.mi.us

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