Statistics
Calgary Public Library Facts (2009):
- Annual circulation: 16,012,748
- Number of items in collection: 2,332,581
- Total number of books to choose from: 1,861,712
- Total number of music CDs to choose from: 222,586
- Total number of DVDs to choose from: 60,913
- Percentage of households that utilize the Calgary Public Library: 72%
- In-person customer visits: 5.6 million annually
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Famous quotes containing the word statistics:
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”
—Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)