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Tomorrow’s SE-B van route is cancelled (Thursday, Jan 22). The affected libraries are:
Auburn
Windham
Pelham
Salem
Derry
Londonderry
Hudson
Nashua
Milford
Amherst
Merrimack
Bedford
Manchester
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Best,
Jennifer M. Finch, MSLIS
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
The NHAIS ILL System will be offline for maintenance starting at 10 o'clock tonight (Tuesday, Jan. 20). Service should be restored in about 15 minutes. No changes to program functionality are expected.
Apologies for the late notice, but we needed to modify the SW ILL route today [Thursday, Jan. 15].
The libraries who received deliveries today are:
Andover
Grafton
Enfield
Grantham
Newport
Washington
Hillsborough
Henniker
Weare
The following libraries will not be receiving a delivery today:
Canaan
Etna
Springfield
New London
Newbury
Sunapee
Thank you for your understanding.
Best wishes,
Jacob Kowall
Reference Librarian
New Hampshire State Library
The Borrowing Activity by Format report was introduced last April and allows us to report the following numbers for requests created by all libraries in the NHAIS ILL System from January 1 to December 31 of 2025. Formats are determined by the coding in the bibliographic records used to create the requests (more on that below). Creating requests is one thing, getting them filled is another. Next to the counts below are the percentages filled or still in process, calculated from the number of requests created by format in 2025 and the number of requests that went unfilled by format last year.
Book 170,197 96%
DVD 14,135 96%
Large Print 8,743 94%
Audiobook CD 2,976 96%
Visual Materials 1,549 92%
Audiobook 541 90%
Music CD 352 92%
Blu-ray 284 92%
Audiobook Player 218 88%
Computer Game 126 87%
Archival Materials 50 86%
Music Score 45 93%
Videocassette 37 70%
Kit 34 91%
Music Recording 31 81%
Serial 21 57%
3D Object 18 78%
Periodical 18 100%
Braille 13 77%
Audiobook Cassette 12 58%
Film 12 92%
Map 12 75%
eBook Reader 11 82%
Game 9 89%
eBook 8 88%
2d Non-projected Graphics 5 100%
Toy 3 67%
Computer Program 2 100%
Flashcard 2 100%
Computer File 1 100%
eAudiobook 1 100%
Music Cassette 1 100%
Chances are some of those formats aren't what they say they are--items listed as "Film" are probably DVDs while most of the "Archival Materials" are likely regular print books. That's usually the result of a cataloger grabbing a MARC record with a title match while not paying attention to the format coding. Then there are the correctly coded records for print books with accompanying CD-ROMs--SHAREit has a habit of seeing those as eBooks.
Which formats do borrowers want extra time with? Below are counts of renewal requests submitted through the NHAIS ILL System in 2025.
Book 11,374
Large Print 528
DVD 394
Audiobook CD 215
Visual Materials 44
Audiobook 26
Audiobook Player 13
Music CD 13
Computer Game 6
Blu-ray 4
Map 4
Music Score 4
Archival Materials 3
Braille 2
Audiobook Cassette 1
Film 1
Music Recording 1
Periodical 1
Toy 1
Videocassette 1
Disregarding formats, a total of 199,467 requests were created in the NHAIS ILL System last year, with 96 percent filled or still in process. 12,636 renewal requests were submitted. The 199,467 total for 2025 averages out to 16,622 new requests per month or 3836 per week. 
I’m sorry about the late notice, but the SE-A van route is cancelled today [Thursday, Jan. 8]. The affected libraries are:
Nottingham
Stratham
Greenland
Hampton
Seabrook
Exeter
Brentwood
Fremont
Kingston
East Kingston
Atkinson
Hampstead
Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Best,
Jennifer M. Finch, MSLIS
Reference Librarian and State Data Coordinator
New Hampshire State Library
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