Fairmount Community Library
Fairmount’s library is the Fairmount Community Library, a branch of Fairmount Community Library Assoc., which serves 5,361 people and lent 76K items last year.
What stands out about Fairmount Community Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
About 5 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.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
76K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
16,327 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Every hour the doors are open, about 31 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Fairmount Community Library Assoc. system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 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.
Fairmount Community Library Assoc. serves 5,361 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $4.02 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Fairmount cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $340K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $340K 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 4,701 cardholders ÷ 12.
Find it
Fairmount Community Library, 406 Chapel Drive, Syracuse.
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 Fairmount Community Library Assoc. branch.
New in Fairmount? 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.
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. Fairmount Community Library is one branch of Fairmount Community Library Assoc., so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 5,361 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Fairmount.
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.