NCW Libraries checkouts top 1.4 million in 2023

North Central Washington residents checked out, downloaded and streamed more than 1.4 million books, movies, and other materials from NCW Libraries in 2023.

That number nearly doubles the 710,395 total checkouts from 2022, when the library district was still emerging from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“It’s exciting to see that library use has rebounded so strongly in 2023,” said Summer Ha...