Opheim’s library is a branch of Glasgow City-County Library, which lends less per resident than 57% of systems its size
Opheim’s library is the Opheim Community Library, a branch of Glasgow City-County Library, which serves 7,578 people and lent 35K items last year.
What stands out about Opheim Community Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Opheim’s civic life grade
Opheim 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 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Glasgow City-County Library serves 7,578 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 8 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Glasgow City-County Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
35K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
9,859 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
94 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
Opheim Community Library, 100 Rock Street, Opheim.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Glasgow City-County Library branch.
New in Opheim? 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 $2.15 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Opheim cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $247K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $531K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $247K 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 3,307 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Opheim Community Library is one branch of Glasgow City-County Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 7,578 people it serves.
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 Opheim
Does Opheim have a public library?
Yes: Opheim Community Library, 100 Rock Street, is a branch of Glasgow City-County Library, which serves 7,578 people. The branch is open about 30 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Glasgow City-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 Opheim’s library?
It logged 4.0 visits and lent 4.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Opheim’s civic life grade?
Opheim 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 Opheim.
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.