Naperville Public Library
Naperville Public Library is a municipal public library system based in Naperville (Dupage County), Illinois, serving a legal service area of 149,540 residents through three library buildings. Among profiled systems serving 100,000 to 249,999 residents, it ranks first for visits per resident, second for physical checkouts per resident, second for weekly open hours per outlet and sixth for paid staff per resident.
Among profiled systems in Illinois, it ranks second for total visits, second for physical checkouts, second for program attendance and second for print volumes. Against the median system of its size class, it records 3.3 times the program attendance per resident and 3.3 times the operating spending per resident.
Naperville against the 360 systems of its size class
Naperville since FY 2019
Visits were 17% below the FY 2019 count of 1.6 million (size-class median: −29%). Physical checkouts moved 31% down over the same span.
- Visits
- Physical checkouts
Who comes to Naperville programs
Programs for children up to age 11 drew 85% of all program attendance, and sessions averaged 41 people each.
Naperville in numbers, FY 2024
- Visits
- 1,290,965
- Physical checkouts
- 2,413,742
- Registered users
- 63,079
- Program sessions
- 2,699
- Program attendance
- 111,769
- Print volumes
- 370,623
- Audio items (physical)
- 30,117
- Video items (physical)
- 85,788
- Public computers
- 205
- Public service hours, all outlets
- 11,158
- Paid staff (full-time equivalent)
- 157.2
- Operating spending
- $16.6 million
- …on books and other materials
- $3 million
- Overdue fines on print items
- not charged
Where Naperville gets its operating money
Operating revenue came to $16.9 million, or $112.75 per resident. The local-government share sits 7 percentage points above the combined share for the 617 profiled systems in Illinois.
- Local government
- State
- Federal
- Other (fines, fees, gifts, grants)
Naperville, building by building
The three buildings cover 168,300 square feet in total, 1.13 square feet per resident against a median of 0.51 for the size class. The largest building is 95th Street Branch Library at 73,000 square feet; the smallest is Naper Boulevard Branch Library at 32,000. The longest hours are at 95th Street Branch Library, 72.7 a week.
| Building | Type | Town | Hours a week | Floor area, sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naperville Public Library | Central library | Naperville | 72.5 | 63,300 |
| 95th Street Branch Library | Branch | Naperville | 72.7 | 73,000 |
| Naper Boulevard Branch Library | Branch | Naperville | 69.4 | 32,000 |
Municipal libraries of similar size in other states
None of these six systems 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escondido Public Library | Escondido, CA | 150,002 | 1.77 | 3.30 | $25.27 |
| Beaverton City Library | Beaverton, OR | 148,075 | 3.47 | 13.09 | $78.14 |
| Bridgeport Public Library | Bridgeport, CT | 148,028 | 1.49 | 0.99 | $57.86 |
| Olathe Public Library | Olathe, KS | 147,461 | 4.15 | 8.47 | $59.79 |
| Mesquite Public Library | Mesquite, TX | 147,317 | 1.13 | 1.33 | $20.13 |
| Pasadena Public Library | Pasadena, TX | 146,716 | 0.90 | 2.50 | $21.84 |
Nearest in size within Illinois
- Gail Borden Public Library District · Elgin · 149,907 residents
- Joliet Public Library · Joliet · 150,362 residents
- Rockford Public Library · Rockford · 148,655 residents
- Schaumburg Township District Library · Schaumburg · 130,345 residents