Lake Placid Public Library
Lake Placid’s library is the Lake Placid Public Library, a branch of Lake Placid Public Library, which serves 6,090 people and lent 20K items last year.
What stands out about Lake Placid 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 $1.07 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Lake Placid cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $307K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $328K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $307K 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 1,375 cardholders ÷ 12.
Find it
Lake Placid Public Library, 2471 Main Street, Lake Placid.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Lake Placid Public Library branch.
New in Lake Placid? 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 8 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Lake Placid Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Strongest at visits per resident
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.
Lake Placid Public Library serves 6,090 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
20K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
3,162 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. Lake Placid Public Library is one branch of Lake Placid Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 6,090 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Lake Placid.
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.