Central Islip Public Library
Central Islip’s library is the Central Islip Public Library, a branch of Central Islip Public Library, which serves 39,964 people and lent 80K items last year.
What stands out about Central Islip Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Central Islip cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $3.8M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $3.8M 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 13,151 cardholders ÷ 12.
49% of borrowing is digital
80K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
39,556 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Central Islip Public Library, 33 Hawthorne Avenue, Central Islip.
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 Central Islip Public Library branch.
New in Central Islip? 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 24 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Central Islip Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Strongest at programs offered
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S. A tiny town’s library always looks busier per person, so it’s only compared with its own size.
Central Islip Public Library serves 39,964 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
About 7 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Islip | Central Islip Public Library fine-free | — | 65 |
| Bohemia | Connetquot Public Library fine-free | — | 71 |
| Brentwood | Brentwood Public Library fine-free | — | 68 |
| Hauppauge | Hauppauge Public Library fine-free | — | 71 |
| North Great River | None of its own | — | — |
| Islandia | None of its own | — | — |
| Ronkonkoma | None of its own | — | — |
| Islip Terrace | 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. Central Islip Public Library is one branch of Central Islip Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 39,964 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Central Islip.
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.