First Thursday Afternoon for Empowerment Zone

Last Thursday, January 6th, was the first ever afternoon time for the Empowerment Zone. Given how busy we were on the public computers the previous Thursday afternoon, I was expecting a large group of patrons to use the EZ. Mother Nature had other plans, and right before 1pm there was a huge thunderstorm with wind and rain gusts. The library is always slower when it is raining, or cold out, and this proved true again on Thursday. Only about half of the public access computers were in use, and the EZ only had 3 users from 1-4:30pm. Hopefully the weather is more patron friendly next week, and more patrons come to use the EZ. One of the positive outcomes was that only one person showed up at 9am and wanted to use the EZ, which hopefully means the patrons took notice of the time change. More to follow...