Stewartville Public Library
Stewartville’s library is the Stewartville Public Library, a branch of Stewartville Public Library, which serves 10,813 people and lent 60K items last year.
What stands out about Stewartville Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.21 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Stewartville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $403K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $891K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $403K 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 3,492 cardholders ÷ 12.
Find it
Stewartville Public Library, 110 2nd Street SE, Stewartville.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Stewartville Public Library branch.
New in Stewartville? 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 28 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Stewartville Public 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.
Stewartville Public Library serves 10,813 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
60K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
6,778 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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.
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. Stewartville Public Library is one branch of Stewartville Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 10,813 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Stewartville.
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.