The Library That Suddenly Has a 400% Increase in Return Visits
The Maplewood Public Library has gone from a sleepy community institution to the hottest destination in town — and city officials are absolutely baffled by the numbers. Checkout records show that men who previously returned books once every few weeks are now somehow finding reasons to stroll through those glass doors multiple times a day. Local parking enforcement has even had to add extra meter attendants outside because the lot is perpetually full.
So what exactly is driving this unprecedented surge in civic literary engagement? Spoiler: it has very little to do with the Dewey Decimal System and everything to do with a certain new head librarian named Ms. Vivienne Cross. We sat down — virtually, of course — with some of the library’s most ‘enthusiastic’ new regulars to get the full story.
