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Town of Johnsburg Library

Town of Johnsburg Library serves 2,143 people in and around North Creek. Last year it lent 13K books, movies and e-books and logged 6,419 visits.

219 Main Street, North Creek 12853 · about 25 hours a week
Borrowed a year
13K
6 per resident
Visits a year
6,419
3 per resident · Below typical (3.5)
Programs & events
122
about 2 a week · 1,344 attended
Cardholders
58%
1,247 cards
Open
25 hrs
a week

What stands out about Town of Johnsburg Library

Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · What your card is worth

For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.96 worth

Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average North Creek cardholder borrows.

In a month I’d use…
Books$17 each
1
Kids’ books$12 each
0
E-books & audio$15 each
0
Movies & music$4 each
0
Programs & classes$10 a program
0
Computer & Wi-Fi$3 a session
0
Your card saves you about
$0
a year at retail prices · $0 a month

Who pays for it
$52 per resident a year

Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $111K.

Local taxes 82%State 2%Gifts & other 16%

Last year the library lent and hosted about $217K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $111K 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 1,247 cardholders ÷ 12.

A year at the library

Every hour the doors are open, about 10 items go out

Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.

6,419
visits
3 per resident
13K
loans, print + digital
6 per resident
122
programs & events
1,344 attended
1,247
library cards
58% of people served
Every open hour1items borrowed
Every week26people at a program
Every day6Wi-Fi sessions
1 staff (full-time equivalent)3 public computers25K books & media on the shelves
How it compares

Close to typical for its size

Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S. A tiny town’s library always looks busier per person, so it’s only compared with its own size.

Visits per resident 3 visits · typical 3.5Lower than 58%
Borrowing per resident 5.1 print items · typical 3.9Higher than 62%
Digital borrowing 0.9 e-items · typical 1Lower than 52%
Kids’ borrowing 1.6 kids’ items · typical 1.4Higher than 56%
Program attendance 0.6 attendees · typical 0.7Lower than 53%
Programs offered 56.9 per 1,000 residents · typical 60Lower than 52%
Cardholders 58% of residents · typical 54%Higher than 54%
Spending $52 per resident · typical $54Lower than 53%
Fewer per residentMore per resident
In New York
#472 of 757

library systems for visits per resident.

Size group

Town of Johnsburg Library serves 2,143 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.

What people borrow

Mostly books and media off the shelf

13K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.

13Kloans
Books & media (adults) 58%Kids’ books & media 27%E-books, audio & streaming 15%
How hard the shelves work
0.4×

Each of the 25K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.4 time last year, on average.

From your couch

1,963 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.

Kids & programs

About 1 kids’ program a week

Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.

Schools in North Creek →

Programs last year by age group

Ages 0–550
Ages 6–1126
Teens0
Adults29
All ages17
Little ones
1

story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.

3,416
kids’ books & media borrowed
1,344
people at programs
122
programs
The building

Find it

Town of Johnsburg Library, 219 Main Street, North Creek.

25
hours open a week
4,000
square feet
25K
books & media
With a card

No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.

New in North Creek? The Handbook →

Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.

Next door

Libraries next door

North Creek borrows the most per resident of the 3 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.

12+ loans per resident8–124–8Under 4No library / shared system
TownLibraryLoans per residentHours
North CreekTown of Johnsburg Library fine-free6.025
JohnsburgTown of Johnsburg Library fine-free6.025
ChesterTown of Chester Public Library fine-free4.836

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.

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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.

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