Avella Area Library Center
Avella’s library is the Avella Area Library Center, a branch of Avella Area Library Center, which serves 3,847 people and lent 880 items last year.
What stands out about Avella Area Library Center
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Avella cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $49K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $18K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $49K 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 201 cardholders ÷ 12.
Find it
Avella Area Library Center, 11 School Court, Avella.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Avella Area Library Center branch.
New in Avella? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
A year at Avella Area Library Center
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Avella Area Library Center system. The library’s own count.
Close to typical for its size
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.
Avella Area Library Center serves 3,847 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
880 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
50 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
40 programs a year
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avella | Avella Area Library Center fine-free | — | 43 |
| Independence | Avella Area Library Center fine-free | — | 43 |
| Cross Creek | 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. Avella Area Library Center is one branch of Avella Area Library Center, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 3,847 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Avella.
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.