Quemado Public Library
Quemado Public Library is a county public library based in Quemado (Maverick County), Texas, serving a legal service area of 29,480 residents from a single building. Among the 964 profiled systems serving 25,000 to 49,999 residents, it ranks last for physical checkouts per resident, second-lowest for operating spending per resident and second-lowest for paid staff per resident.
Among the 503 profiled systems in Texas, it ranks last for visits per resident and second-lowest for library floor space per resident. Against the median system of its size class, it records only 3% of the program attendance per resident and only 15% of the print volumes per resident.
Quemado against the 964 systems of its size class
Who comes to Quemado programs
Programs for children up to age 11 drew 95% of all program attendance, and sessions averaged 11 people each.
Nearest in size within Texas
- Navasota Public Library · Navasota · 29,460 residents
- Bay City Public Library · Bay City · 29,109 residents
- Boyce Ditto Public Library · Mineral Wells · 29,923 residents
- Patrick Heath Public Library · Boerne · 28,927 residents
Quemado in numbers, FY 2024
- Visits
- 1,954
- Physical checkouts
- 428
- …of children's materials
- 244
- Registered users
- 951
- Program sessions
- 29
- Program attendance
- 310
- Print volumes
- 9,720
- Audio items (physical)
- 430
- Video items (physical)
- 860
- Public computers
- 9
- Public service hours, all outlets
- 2,080
- Paid staff (full-time equivalent)
- 1.0
- Operating spending
- $51,356
- …on books and other materials
- $2,135
- Overdue fines on print items
- charged
Where Quemado gets its operating money
Operating revenue came to $62,540, or $2.12 per resident. The local-government share sits 4 percentage points above the combined share for the 503 profiled systems in Texas. No federal operating revenue was reported.
- Local government
- State
- Federal
- Other (fines, fees, gifts, grants)
The Quemado building
The single building covers 2,210 square feet, 0.07 square feet per resident against a median of 0.74 for the size class. It is open 40 hours a week.
| Building | Type | Town | Hours a week | Floor area, sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quemado Public Library | Central library | Quemado | 40 | 2,210 |
County libraries of similar size in other states
All six of these systems record more visits per resident than this one. The highest checkout rate in the group belongs to Knox County Public Library in Kentucky.
| System | Based in | Residents | Visits per resident | Checkouts per resident | Spending per resident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knox County Public Library | Barbourville, KY | 29,794 | 1.66 | 5.31 | $15.19 |
| Iberville Parish Library | Plaquemine, LA | 29,766 | 4.75 | 0.81 | $99.17 |
| Smyth County Public Library | Marion, VA | 29,523 | 2.75 | 3.10 | $40.97 |
| Dr. Samuel L. Bossard Memorial Library | Gallipolis, OH | 29,220 | 2.94 | 3.33 | $67.38 |
| Bladen County Public Library | Elizabethtown, NC | 29,153 | 1.03 | 1.01 | $23.21 |
| Peach Public Libraries | Fort Valley, GA | 29,125 | 1.02 | 1.07 | $19.25 |