Photo: Andrew Filer · CC BY-SA 2.0Cooperstown’s library runs 125 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Griggs County Library serves 2,306 people in and around Cooperstown. Last year it lent 15K books, movies and e-books and logged 9,339 visits.
What stands out about Griggs County Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Cooperstown’s civic life grade
Cooperstown 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.
Griggs County Library serves 2,306 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 7 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Griggs County Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
15K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
4,769 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 4 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
Griggs County Library, 902 Burrel Ave SE, Cooperstown.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Griggs County Library branch.
New in Cooperstown? 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 $2.48 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cooperstown cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $121K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $299K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $121K 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 596 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperstown | Griggs County Library fine-free | — | 44 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Cooperstown 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.
- System-wide. Griggs County Library serves 2,306 people in and around Cooperstown, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Cooperstown.
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 Cooperstown
Does Cooperstown have a public library?
Yes. Griggs County Library, 902 Burrel Ave SE, serves 2,306 people in and around Cooperstown (the survey’s count) and is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Griggs County 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 Cooperstown’s library?
It logged 4.0 visits and lent 6.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Cooperstown’s civic life grade?
Cooperstown 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 Cooperstown.
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.