Owensville Carnegie Public Library
Owensville’s library is the Owensville Carnegie Public Library, a branch of Owensville Carnegie Public Library, which serves 4,072 people and lent 25K items last year.
What stands out about Owensville Carnegie Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
About 3 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
48% of borrowing is digital
25K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
11,883 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.61 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Owensville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $260K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $419K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $260K budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
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 811 cardholders ÷ 12.
Find it
Owensville Carnegie Public Library, 110 South Main Street, Owensville.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Owensville Carnegie Public Library branch.
New in Owensville? 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 11 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Owensville Carnegie Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S. A tiny town’s library always looks busier per person, so it’s only compared with its own size.
Owensville Carnegie Public Library serves 4,072 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
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. Owensville Carnegie Public Library is one branch of Owensville Carnegie Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 4,072 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Owensville.
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.