Photo: W.marsh · CC BY-SA 3.0Mount Olivet’s library logs 2.9 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Robertson County Public Library serves 2,313 people in and around Mount Olivet. Last year it lent 12K books, movies and e-books and logged 6,813 visits.
What stands out about Robertson County Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Mount Olivet’s civic life grade
Mount Olivet 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Robertson County Public Library serves 2,313 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 5 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Robertson County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
12K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
1,797 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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
Robertson County Public Library, 207 North Main Street, Mount Olivet.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Robertson County Public Library branch.
New in Mount Olivet? 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 $1.38 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Mount Olivet cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $164K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $226K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $164K budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
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 1,362 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Robertson County Public Library serves 2,313 people in and around Mount Olivet, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Mount Olivet.
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 Mount Olivet
Does Mount Olivet have a public library?
Yes. Robertson County Public Library, 207 North Main Street, serves 2,313 people in and around Mount Olivet (the survey’s count) and is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Robertson County Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Mount Olivet’s library?
It logged 2.9 visits and lent 5.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Mount Olivet’s civic life grade?
Mount Olivet 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 Mount Olivet.
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.