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Howe Community Library Director Melissa Atchison presents awards to students for reading achievements. Howe Community Library Director Melissa Atchison gave a fiscal year-end recap of the activity that took place as well as recognized some volunteers and students that accomplished achievements. Sandra Nitchman received first place in the Summer Reading Contest with 83 chapter books read. Her sister, Janna Nitchman came in a close second with 78. First place came with a $25 gift card to Cinemark Theaters and second place came with $15 candy cart bucks. The library fiscal year is Sept. 1 - Aug 31 and the total circulation of books during that time was 29,268. In addition to that, 2,022 eBooks were checked out along with 97 audiobooks. 2,014 videos were checked out to give a grand total of 37,406 items for the year.

books and videos for the community portion of the library instead of the school portion. The library had 664 in attendance at childrens programs throughout the year. Youth totalled 198 while adults were 298. These programs included Wee Readers, Garden Club, Summer Reading programs, Storytime with Santa, Circus Clown, and Scrapbook Group.

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Atchison said the number of volunteers (249) was an incredibly high number for a community the size of Howe. Those volunteers put in 520 hours. These volunteer hours were from projects in the library to working in the garden.

City Patrons that came through the door at the Howe Community Library totalled 7,762. Nearly 90 new library cards were issued and The school budget, which includes 2,082 patrons signed on to the databases, copiers, magazines, computers at the library. Atchison books, eBooks, supplies and explained that some stay on the computers came to $22,400. The computers all day while others just Grayson County money received check their Facebook or print was $2,000 which was spent on something and leave.

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