Alburgh Public Library
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Alburgh Public Library is a public library in Alburgh, Grand Isle County, Vermont. It is located at 16 South Main St. in Alburgh (Mailing address: PO Box 334, Alburgh, Vermont 05440-0334).
[edit] Statistics (2004 figures)
According to 2000 Census figures as reported by the Vermont Department of Libraries, Alburg Public Library serves a population of 1952, with staffing hours equivalent to 1.5 full time employees, with no employees having an American Library Association accredited Masters of Library Science. Also, volunteers provided an average of 20 hours of services per week.
In 2004 the 1676 square foot (156 m²) library reported having a collection of 12,789 books, or about 6.55 books per capita. In addition the library had 204 videos and 251 audio items, for a total collection size of 13,244. The library subscibed to 32 periodicals.
The number of registered borrowers was 1240, about 63.5% of the population served. Patrons visited the library a total of 13,168 times, or 6.75 visits per capita. It circulated 9447 items (5939 adult, 3508 juvenile) or 4.84 items per capita. A total of 1040 reference transactions were also handled. 23 items were requested from other libraries through inter-library loan, 59 leant to other libraries. The library offered 69 adult programs and 96 juvenile programs. Total program attendance was 778 for the adult programs, 908 for the juvenile programs. The library was open 28 hour per week.
The annual budget was $48,112. $38,953 of this was raised by local taxes — $19.96 per capita, additionally $350 was obtain in grant money, and $9159 from other sources. $38,253 of that was spent on staffing, $3818 on book purchases, $409 on audio-visual materials, and $5234 on other expenditures.
As of the 2004 data, the library offered high-speed Internet access. The library owned 6 computers of which 4 were available for public use. It did not use content filtering. Users logged an average of 30 signups per week. The library did not report having a website.
The library was reported as meeting state standards.
