Library Items Borrowed per Person: Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and Parkland County vs Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan and Alberta

Items borrowed (circulation) per resident each year by the Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and Parkland County library boards, Leduc's and Fort Saskatchewan's, and all Alberta boards. In 2022 Stony Plain lent 11.2 items per resident, Spruce Grove 6.5 and Parkland County's board 1.2, against 5.4 in Leduc, 8.5 in Fort Saskatchewan and 9.6 across Alberta; in 2015 Spruce Grove lent 10.9 and Stony Plain 14.1. To 2021 this is the sheet's Circulation; 2022 is its Total Circulation, which adds e-content and equipment loans a board reports itself (Spruce Grove's and Stony Plain's boards reported no e-book loans of their own in 2022). Leduc and Fort Saskatchewan are Edmonton-region cities of a similar size; the Alberta line is every municipal library board together (Calgary and Edmonton weigh most). From each board's annual report to Alberta Municipal Affairs, 2015 to 2022 (the newest year published). Per person = the board's figure over its own service population, and a board's users can live outside it, so a town library that serves the farms around it reads busier per person and Parkland County's own board, with small branches, reads quieter. 2020 and 2021 were pandemic years.