Loudoun County Public Library
Loudoun County Public Library is a county public library system based in Leesburg (Loudoun County), Virginia, serving a legal service area of 425,204 residents through 10 library buildings and two bookmobiles. Among the 93 profiled systems in Virginia, it ranks first for program attendance, second for total visits, second for physical checkouts and second for operating spending.
Among the 121 profiled systems serving 250,000 to 499,999 residents, it ranks third for program attendance per resident. Against the median system of its size class, it records 2.4 times the physical checkouts per resident and 2.2 times the public computers per resident.
Loudoun County against the 122 systems of its size class
Loudoun County since FY 2019
Visits were 18% below the FY 2019 count of 2.1 million (size-class median: −30%). Physical checkouts moved 19% down over the same span.
- Visits
- Physical checkouts
Who comes to Loudoun County programs
Programs for children up to age 11 drew 68% of all program attendance, and sessions averaged 35 people each.
Loudoun County in numbers, FY 2024
- Visits
- 1,715,447
- Physical checkouts
- 3,681,672
- …of children's materials
- 2,636,580
- Electronic checkouts
- 1,729,054
- …of e-books
- 541,990
- …of e-audio
- 906,924
- Registered users
- 66,431
- Program sessions
- 9,989
- Program attendance
- 350,913
- Print volumes
- 507,703
- Audio items (physical)
- 14,139
- Video items (physical)
- 38,828
- Public computers
- 581
- Public service hours, all outlets
- 34,944
- Paid staff (full-time equivalent)
- 295.0
- Operating spending
- $24.3 million
- …on books and other materials
- $2.3 million
- Overdue fines on print items
- not charged
Where Loudoun County gets its operating money
Operating revenue came to $24.2 million, or $56.85 per resident. The local-government share sits 6 percentage points above the combined share for the 93 profiled systems in Virginia. No federal operating revenue was reported.
- Local government
- State
- Federal
- Other (fines, fees, gifts, grants)
Loudoun County, building by building
The 10 buildings cover 216,540 square feet in total, 0.51 square feet per resident against a median of 0.46 for the size class. The largest building is Rust Library at 42,000 square feet; the smallest is Law Library at 2,000. The longest hours, 70 a week, are shared by two buildings.
| Building | Type | Town | Hours a week | Floor area, sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashburn Library | Branch | Ashburn | 66 | 23,400 |
| Brambleton Library | Branch | Loudoun | 70 | 40,000 |
| Cascades Library | Branch | Potomac Falls | 66 | 30,000 |
| Gum Spring | Branch | Stone Ridge | 66 | 40,000 |
| Law Library | Branch | Leesburg | 40 | 2,000 |
| Lovettsville Library | Branch | Lovettsville | 61 | 4,600 |
| Middleburg Library | Branch | Middleburg | 61 | 4,540 |
| Purcellville Library | Branch | Purcellville | 66 | 15,500 |
| Rust Library | Branch | Leesburg | 66 | 42,000 |
| Sterling Library | Branch | Sterling | 70 | 14,500 |
| Outreach Services (Lcpl Mobile Unit) | Two bookmobiles | Leesburg | 40 |
County libraries of similar size in other states
Of these six systems, one records more visits per resident than this one. None of them matches this system's checkouts per resident.
| System | Based in | Residents | Visits per resident | Checkouts per resident | Spending per resident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toledo-Lucas County Public Library | Toledo, OH | 428,505 | 4.73 | 7.25 | $104.07 |
| Jefferson Parish Library | Metairie, LA | 427,253 | 2.74 | 1.81 | $59.02 |
| Monmouth County Library | Manalapan, NJ | 425,110 | 1.89 | 3.46 | $38.90 |
| Richland County Public Library | Columbia, SC | 416,147 | 2.83 | 5.42 | $81.95 |
| Marion County Public Library System | Ocala, FL | 413,951 | 1.39 | 1.84 | $21.62 |
| Collier County Public Library | Naples, FL | 408,363 | 2.08 | 2.98 | $22.35 |
Nearest in size within Virginia
- Virginia Beach Public Library · Virginia Beach · 458,028 residents
- Chesterfield County Public Library · Chesterfield · 369,943 residents
- Central Rappahannock Regional Library · Fredericksburg · 347,033 residents
- Prince William Public Libraries · Prince William · 525,441 residents