Wednesday, April 18, 2007

National Library Week

This is National Library Week did you know:

Iowa has 543 public libraries, 79 academic libraries, and over 1,400 school libraries.

There are 1.9 million registered borrowers in Iowa public libraries.

Nationally, Iowa public libraries rank 16th in library visits per capita.

Iowa ranks 3rd nationally in the number of public libraries per capita, and 15th in the number of books owned.

The average Iowa public library answers 3,469 reference questions a year.

The average number of public access Internet computers in Iowa public libraries is 5. (Emmetsburg has six)

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