Photo: Billwhittaker (Uploads) · CC BY-SA 3.0Annawan Township’s library lends 18 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Annawan-Alba Township Library serves Annawan Township’s 1,317 residents. Last year it lent 24K books, movies and e-books and logged 6,287 visits.
What Annawan Township’s library is like
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 98% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 66 items per child in Annawan Township last year. Kids & programs ↓
Annawan Township is a town of borrowers
Annawan-Alba Township Library lends 18 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, more than 96% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
A small-town library
Annawan-Alba Township Library serves 1,317 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 29 hours a week. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Annawan-Alba Township Library charges late fines on some overdue items. Two of the three libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
Annawan Township out-borrows every town next door
At 18.0 loans per resident, Annawan Township leads the four towns here. The closest is Annawan, at 18.0. Libraries next door ↓
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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Annawan Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Annawan Township is ahead of 52% of U.S. towns. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Annawan Township’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
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 →
2 community nonprofits are registered in Annawan Township
1.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
Community nonprofits, by kind
Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (0 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
9.4%
9.4% of Annawan Township’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.1% in the typical Illinois town and 7.5% nationally.
Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. ZIP-code figures, weighted by where Annawan Township’s residents live; 2022.
68 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 Annawan Township last year.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Annawan-Alba Township Library serves 1,317 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 16 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
24K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 14K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.7 times last year, on average.
Find it
Annawan-Alba Township Library, 200 North Meadow Lane, Suite 2, Annawan.
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 $4.39 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Annawan Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $76K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $333K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $76K 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 567 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Annawan Township borrows the most per resident of the 4 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annawan Township | Annawan-Alba Township Library | 18.0 | 29 | B− |
| Annawan | Annawan-Alba Township Library | 18.0 | 29 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Kewanee Township | Kewanee Public Library District fine-free | 4.1 | 57 | B+ |
| Mineral Township | Mineral-Gold Public Library District fine-free | 3.3 | 30 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Alba Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Cornwall Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Annawan Township
Does Annawan Township have a public library?
Yes. Annawan-Alba Township Library, 200 North Meadow Lane, Suite 2, serves Annawan Township’s 1,317 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 29 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Annawan-Alba Township Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Annawan Township’s library?
It logged 4.8 visits and lent 18.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Annawan Township’s civic life grade?
B− Annawan Township is ahead of 52% of U.S. towns on civic life. The grade combines library visits per resident, community nonprofits per 1,000 residents and the share of adults 25–44 in volunteering groups. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Annawan Township.
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.