Photo: TampAGS, for AGS Media · CC BY-SA 3.0Crawfordville’s library is a branch of Bartram Trail Regional Library System, which lends less per resident than 81% of systems its size
Crawfordville’s library is the Taliaferro County Library, a branch of Bartram Trail Regional Library System, which serves 33,056 people and lent 61K items last year.
The short version on Crawfordville’s library
Below typical on every measure
Against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, the Bartram Trail Regional Library System sits below the middle on all seven per-resident measures we compare, and in the bottom 30% on six. How it compares ↓
Georgia pays a big share
45% of the budget comes from the state, and 47% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
This summary is written from the numbers on this page. Numbers are the library’s own report to the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024; Crawfordville’s library is a branch of Bartram Trail Regional Library System, so they cover the whole system (33,056 people), not just the Crawfordville branch.
What’s behind Crawfordville’s civic life grade
Crawfordville isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
Civic life counts registered nonprofits, library visits and online volunteering groups, so it can miss civic life that runs through congregations, mutual aid or neighbors looking out for each other.
Library visits: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024. Nonprofits: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, October 2026. Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. How TownRatings grades civic life →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Bartram Trail Regional Library System serves 33,056 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 10 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Bartram Trail Regional Library System system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
61K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
13,938 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 3 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Find it
Taliaferro County Library, 117 Askin Street, Crawfordville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Bartram Trail Regional Library System branch.
New in Crawfordville? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.27 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Crawfordville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $855K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.1M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $855K budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
Retail prices are typical, rounded down: a new book $17, a kids’ book $12, an e-book or e-audiobook $15, a movie rental $4, a class or program $10, a computer or Wi-Fi session $3. The average cardholder’s month = the library’s yearly loans, attendance and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ its 8,879 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Taliaferro County Library is one branch of Bartram Trail Regional Library System, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 33,056 people it serves.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average; libraries are compared with others serving about as many people. How TownRatings uses library figures →
Questions about the library and civic life in Crawfordville
Does Crawfordville have a public library?
Yes: Taliaferro County Library, 117 Askin Street, is a branch of Bartram Trail Regional Library System, which serves 33,056 people. The branch is open about 29 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Bartram Trail Regional Library System fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Crawfordville’s library?
It logged 1.8 visits and lent 1.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Crawfordville’s civic life grade?
Crawfordville isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Crawfordville.
Libraries: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024. Each library reports its own numbers. Distances are straight-line from the town center. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.