2023 Year in Review: Early Childhood

Animals, nature, and kindness were the main themes of this year’s most popular early childhood lists. There’s a wide variety here; old classics show up alongside new popular titles, dinosaurs show up alongside books on friendship, and books with built-in...

2023 Year in Review: Children’s Literature

When kids decide they love something, they really go all-in! The main themes of this year’s “most circulated” list are serieses and silliness. Seriously, I had to go to the fourth item on the list to find a juvenile fiction title that wasn’t...

2023 Year in Review: Items for Young Adults

It’s been a tumultuous year for young adult items at the library. Manga continues to be popular; so do book series recently made into movies. The Streisand Effect was also evident, as books on the most frequently challenged list for the year were also some of...

2023 Year in Review: Items for Adults

It’s been quite a year at the St Croix Falls Public Library! In total, we circulated items to patrons over 40,000 times this year. And that doesn’t count the over 10,000 ebooks our patrons checked out. Our most popular item this year was the DVD 1883: A...

Get a library card!

Ten very good reasons to get a library card: It’s cost-effective. Our library cards are FREE to all Wisconsin residents. (Patrons from out-of-state can still sign up for a card for a small fee of $35 per year per household.) It’s powerful. Our library...