Shropshire Star

Market Drayton Library celebrates helping 50,000 visitors and lending 40,000 books in 2024

A Shropshire library team is celebrating a large increase in visitor numbers and books lent last year - and looking forward to new initiatives for 2025.

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Market Drayton Library saw a big increase in visitor numbers during 2024 compared to the previous year. 

Librarian Catherine Westwood reported that nearly 3,000 more people visited the library last year, and more than 6,000 more books were borrowed too.

"It’s been an incredibly busy year for us.

"We have had loads more visits, we know we have been busy because we have had lots of people in and had lots of events.

"In 2023 we had 47,296 people come in but in 2024 we had 50,104 which is amazing. So that is people coming to our groups, activities, class visits - it is all sorts of different things.

Market Drayton library is hosting a giant library book sale on Saturday, January 18 Pictured is librarian: Catherine Westwood.
Market Drayton library is hosting a giant library book sale on Saturday, January 18 Pictured is librarian: Catherine Westwood.