Loose Ends: Readers through the seasons

Amid stories of bailouts, job losses and economic mayhem, one recent national news story about the growth of library users throughout the county caught my eye.
It is not often that a negative — such as declining sales — produces a positive trend such as this one, but in the library featured on the news, things were hopping. Library usage appeared to be a loose term, and described the increase in the number of people…