Marion County Library
Yellville’s library is the Marion County Library, a branch of Marion County Library, which serves 17,076 people and lent 35K items last year.
What stands out about Marion County Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
44% of borrowing is digital
35K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
15,317 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Marion County Library, 308 Old Main, Yellville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Marion County Library branch.
New in Yellville? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Every hour the doors are open, about 15 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Marion County Library system. The library’s own count.
Close to typical for its size
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S. A tiny town’s library always looks busier per person, so it’s only compared with its own size.
Marion County Library serves 17,076 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.86 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Yellville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $189K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $541K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $189K budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
Retail prices are typical, rounded down: a new book $17, a kids’ book $12, an e-book or e-audiobook $15, a movie rental $4, a class or program $10, a computer or Wi-Fi session $3. The average cardholder’s month = the library’s yearly loans, attendance and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ its 3,284 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellville | Marion County Library | — | — |
| Summit | None of its own | — | — |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report.
About these numbers
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Hours are an average. The survey reports a building’s public hours for the whole year. We divide by the weeks it was open, so check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
- Compared by size. “Similar-size” means libraries serving about as many people, nationwide. Per-resident numbers always flatter the smallest towns, so they’re never compared with big cities.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
- System-wide. Marion County Library is one branch of Marion County Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 17,076 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Yellville.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Libraries: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024. Each library reports its own numbers. Distances are straight-line from the town center. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.