As construction work progresses on a $20 million renovation project at McKinney’s Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library, city officials have seen an increase in activity at the city’s other library, John and Judy Gay Library.

McKinney’s Director of Libraries Spencer Smith said the city’s library system has seen a less than 10% decrease in circulation since the closure of Hall Library in June , which is less than the projected impact, he said.

“If you would have told me, ‘Hey, you're going to close down one of your libraries on the east side of town, and you're only going to lose less than 10% of circulation and 10% of user base,’ I would have said there's no way,” Smith said.

The gist

Circulation at Gay Library has totaled nearly 470,000 in the four months following the closure of

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