Yellow Springs Branch Library
Yellow Springs’s library is the Yellow Springs Branch Library, a branch of Greene County Public Library, which serves 167,966 people and lent 2.8M items last year.
What stands out about Yellow Springs Branch Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
About 30 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
2.8M loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
858,543 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $3.17 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Yellow Springs cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $14M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $43M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $14M budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
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 104,676 cardholders ÷ 12.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 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.
Greene County Public Library serves 167,966 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Find it
Yellow Springs Branch Library, 415 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Greene County Public Library branch.
New in Yellow Springs? 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 126 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Greene County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
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. Yellow Springs Branch Library is one branch of Greene County Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 167,966 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Yellow Springs.
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.