Dix Hills
Dix Hills’s library is the Dix Hills, a branch of Half Hollow Hills Community Public Library, which serves 48,409 people and lent 417K items last year.
What stands out about Dix Hills
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
About 11 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.
Every hour the doors are open, about 64 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Half Hollow Hills Community Public Library system. The library’s own count.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Dix Hills cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $8M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $7.3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $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 31,794 cardholders ÷ 12.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
417K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
161,945 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
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.
Half Hollow Hills Community Public Library serves 48,409 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Find it
Dix Hills, 55 Vanderbilt Parkway, Dix Hills.
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 Half Hollow Hills Community Public Library branch.
New in Dix Hills? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dix Hills | Dix Hills fine-free | — | 65 |
| Huntington | Harborfields Public Library fine-free | — | 62 |
| Melville | Melville Branch fine-free | — | 61 |
| Babylon | Babylon Public Library fine-free | — | 60 |
| Commack | Commack Public Library fine-free | — | 67 |
| Elwood | Elwood Public Library fine-free | — | 61 |
| Deer Park | Deer Park Public Library | — | 52 |
| South Huntington | South Huntington Public Library fine-free | — | 68 |
| Smithtown | The Smithtown Library fine-free | — | 67 |
| Brentwood | Brentwood Public Library fine-free | — | 68 |
| Wheatley Heights | 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. Dix Hills is one branch of Half Hollow Hills Community Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 48,409 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Dix Hills.
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.