Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library is a multi-jurisdictional public library system based in Burnsville (Yancey County), North Carolina, serving a legal service area of 50,755 residents through four library buildings and one bookmobile. Among the 495 profiled systems serving 50,000 to 99,999 residents, it records the largest gain in visits since FY 2019.
Among profiled systems in North Carolina, it ranks last for local government's share of operating revenue and records the steepest decline in physical checkouts since FY 2019. Against the median system of its size class, it records 44% fewer physical checkouts per resident and 75% more print volumes per resident.
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional against the 559 systems of its size class
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional since FY 2019
Visits were 150% above the FY 2019 count of 69,643 (size-class median: −29%). Physical checkouts moved 68% down over the same span.
- Visits
- Physical checkouts
Nearest in size within North Carolina
- Columbus County Public Library · Whiteville · 50,389 residents
- Nantahala Regional Library · Murphy · 49,401 residents
- Duplin County Library · Kenansville · 49,178 residents
- Edgecombe County Memorial Library · Tarboro · 48,491 residents
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional in numbers, FY 2024
- Visits
- 173,784
- Physical checkouts
- 96,713
- Electronic checkouts
- 38,479
- …of e-books
- 17,380
- …of e-audio
- 14,083
- Registered users
- 8,934
- Print volumes
- 151,574
- Audio items (physical)
- 2,307
- Video items (physical)
- 5,041
- Public computers
- 34
- Public service hours, all outlets
- 11,536
- Paid staff (full-time equivalent)
- 19.0
- Operating spending
- $1.1 million
- …on books and other materials
- $55,263
- Overdue fines on print items
- charged
Where Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional gets its operating money
Operating revenue came to $1.5 million, or $29.66 per resident. The local-government share sits 52 percentage points below the combined share for the 84 profiled systems in North Carolina.
- Local government
- State
- Federal
- Other (fines, fees, gifts, grants)
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional, building by building
The four buildings cover 28,512 square feet in total, 0.56 square feet per resident against a median of 0.62 for the size class. The largest building is Avery County Library at 11,206 square feet; the smallest is Mitchell County Library at 4,800. The longest hours are at Avery County Library, 52 a week.
| Building | Type | Town | Hours a week | Floor area, sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avery County Library | Branch | Newland | 52 | 11,206 |
| Mitchell County Library | Branch | Bakersville | 45 | 4,800 |
| Spruce Pine Public Library | Branch | Spruce Pine | 45 | 7,106 |
| Yancey County Library | Branch | Burnsville | 51 | 5,400 |
| Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library Bookmobile | Bookmobile | Burnsville | 30 |
Multi-jurisdictional libraries of similar size in other states
Of these six systems, one records more visits per resident than this one. The highest checkout rate in the group belongs to Seguin Public Library in Texas.
| System | Based in | Residents | Visits per resident | Checkouts per resident | Spending per resident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln-Lawrence-Franklin Regional Library | Brookhaven, MS | 54,053 | 1.56 | 1.42 | $15.44 |
| Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library | Clarksburg, WV | 52,405 | 2.19 | 1.50 | $17.44 |
| Satilla Regional Library System | Douglas, GA | 51,862 | 0.65 | 0.68 | $16.07 |
| Seguin Public Library | Seguin, TX | 51,803 | 3.18 | 5.39 | $33.47 |
| Scott Sebastian Regional Library | Greenwood, AR | 50,217 | 0.78 | 0.83 | $11.80 |
| Western Plains Library System | Clinton, OK | 46,583 | 3.57 | 1.79 | $61.76 |