This past year, the library spent $37,000 from the estate of Elfreda Rusher to buy books. Penrod also informed the board about public library circulation trends at the national level and at the WCDPL. “For a couple of years now, Michelle (Raine, deputy director) and I have been talking about how we need to double down on print books,” Penrod said. For print books, and books, movies and music on disc, 2010 saw 511,832 items borrowed. For print books in particular, the decline in usage was just 3.6 percent.