Cottageville Branch Library
Cottageville’s library is the Cottageville Branch Library, a branch of Colleton County Memorial Library, which serves 38,604 people and lent 45K items last year.
What stands out about Cottageville Branch Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
Find it
Cottageville Branch Library, 72 Salley Ackerman Drive, Cottageville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Colleton County Memorial Library branch.
New in Cottageville? 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 7 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Colleton County Memorial Library system. The library’s own count.
Close to typical for its size
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 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.
Colleton County Memorial Library serves 38,604 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
45K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
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.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cottageville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $763K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.1M 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 16,779 cardholders ÷ 12.
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. Cottageville Branch Library is one branch of Colleton County Memorial Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 38,604 people it serves.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Cottageville.
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.