Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Dighton’s library logs 7.4 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Dighton/Lane County Library serves 1,529 people in and around Dighton. Last year it lent 8,932 books, movies and e-books and logged 11K visits.
What stands out about Dighton/Lane County Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Dighton’s civic life grade
Dighton 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 →
Every hour the doors are open, about 4 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Dighton/Lane County Library system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Dighton/Lane County Library serves 1,529 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
8,932 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
1,718 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
38 programs a year
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
Dighton/Lane County Library, 144 South Lane, Dighton.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Dighton/Lane County Library branch.
New in Dighton? 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 $2.38 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Dighton cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $90K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $215K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $90K 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 1,242 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Dighton/Lane County Library serves 1,529 people in and around Dighton, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Dighton.
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 Dighton
Does Dighton have a public library?
Yes. Dighton/Lane County Library, 144 South Lane, serves 1,529 people in and around Dighton (the survey’s count) and is open about 42 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Dighton/Lane County Library 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 Dighton’s library?
It logged 7.4 visits and lent 5.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Dighton’s civic life grade?
Dighton 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 Dighton.
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.