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

[Laxminarayan, Ishwar]

And thank you, Jim and team, for all your tireless efforts in promoting this great program!

Ishwar

Ishwar Laxminarayan
Director
Jackson District Library
244 West Michigan Avenue
Jackson, MI 49201
(517) 905-1309 (tel)
((517) 474-0732 (cell)
(517) 788-6024 (fax)
www.myjdl.com


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