Photo: PopePompus · CC BY-SA 4.0Sully’s library lends 6.2 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Sully Community Library serves Sully’s 3,461 residents. Last year it lent 22K print books and media and logged 17K visits.
What Sully’s library is like
Busy on a lean budget
Sully Community Library spends $18 per resident, less than 86% of similar-size libraries (typical: $43). It’s still busier than 75% of them. What your card is worth ↓
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 72% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 89% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 56 items per child in Sully last year. Kids & programs ↓
Open only about 22 hours a week
Sully Community Library keeps short hours: about 22 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
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.
What’s behind Sully’s civic life grade
Sully 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 →
34 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Sully last year.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Sully Community Library serves 3,461 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 19 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
22K print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Each of the 15K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.4 time last year, on average.
Find it
Sully Community Library, 318 6th Ave, Sully.
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 $4.81 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Sully cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $63K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $302K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $63K 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 989 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
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 Sully
Does Sully have a public library?
Yes. Sully Community Library, 318 6th Ave, serves Sully’s 3,461 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 22 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Sully Community Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Sully’s library?
It logged 5.0 visits and lent 6.2 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Sully’s civic life grade?
Sully 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 Sully.
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.