Thanks to you, our amazing community, 2024 was another excellent year for Library use across the District. Libraries are a vital lifeline for the whole community. We offer resources for education at all ages, financial planning, regional history, homeschooling, genealogy, small business, hobbies, homework help, early literacy, and so much more. Thank you for being Library users!
Our community made outstanding use of our eLibrary resources across the board. For the second year in a row, we reached over 3 million checkouts in a single year on OverDrive and Libby. You also checked out 52,944 items on Hoopla.
Registration increased for many of our annual programs this year as well. We had 5,070 people register for our Winter Adult Reading Program (a 25% increase from 2023). Our 2024 Summer Adventure, presented by Children’s Hospital Colorado, opened to adults for the first time and had 18,302 people register (a 27% increase from 2023).
In July, we started reading Go As a River with our community and had the pleasure of hearing from its Colorado-local author, Shelley Read during our All Pikes Peak Reads author presentation. Due to the high interest, we had to add a second author presentation!
We welcomed 28,308 new library cardholders in 2024, and every month nearly 60 thousand people in our community used their PPLD library card. We had 1,905,097 people visit PPLD locations to check out 2,175,331 physical materials, use our meeting and study rooms (32,630 reservations), and use computers (224,751 users). More than 132,912 people attended our 4,120 programs, and 3,588 people checked out Culture Passes to visit nearby museums and attractions. We also answered 98,861 of your burning questions. We look forward to seeing how our community continues to use the Library in 2025!
Here are the top book checkouts of 2024:
Top 10 Juvenile checkouts
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix by J.K. Rowling
- City of Spies by James Ponti
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer by Jeff Kinney
- The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
- Time of the Turtle King by Mary Pope Osborne
Top 10 Young Adult checkouts
- The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
Top 10 Adult checkouts
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Go As a River by Shelley Read (our 2024 All Pikes Peak Reads title)
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
- Tom Lake: A Novel by Ann Patchett
- The Secret by Lee Child
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- Think Twice by Harlan Coben
- The Murder Inn by James Patterson
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus