Photo: Billwhittaker (Uploads) · CC BY-SA 3.0Annawan’s library lends 18 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Annawan-Alba Township Library serves 1,317 people in and around Annawan. Last year it lent 24K books, movies and e-books and logged 6,287 visits.
What Annawan’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. Kids & programs ↓
Annawan 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 ↓
Annawan-Alba Township Library serves more than Annawan
The library’s service area covers 1,317 people in and around Annawan, so its per-resident numbers are measured against that wider population. How it compares ↓
Almost all the borrowing is off the shelf
Only 0% of loans are e-books, audiobooks or streaming, fewer per resident than at 99% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
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’s civic life grade
Annawan 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 →
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.
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 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
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annawan | Annawan-Alba Township Library | 18.0 | 29 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Annawan Township | Annawan-Alba Township Library | 18.0 | 29 | B− |
| Alba 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
Does Annawan have a public library?
Yes. Annawan-Alba Township Library, 200 North Meadow Lane, Suite 2, serves 1,317 people in and around Annawan (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’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’s civic life grade?
Annawan 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 Annawan.
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.