San Estevan del Rey Mission Church · Photo: Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0Skyline-Ganipa’s library logs 0.4 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Acoma Learning Center serves 2,947 people in and around Skyline-Ganipa. Last year it lent 7,918 books, movies and e-books and logged 1,141 visits.
What Skyline-Ganipa’s library is like
New Mexico pays a big share
41% of the budget comes from the state, and 45% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Fewer visits than most libraries its size
Acoma Learning Center records 0.4 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, below 98% of similar-size libraries. Borrowing holds up better, at 2.7 print items per resident. 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 94% 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; Acoma Learning Center serves 2,947 people in and around Skyline-Ganipa, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Skyline-Ganipa’s civic life grade
Skyline-Ganipa isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Acoma Learning Center, so there is no town figure for visits.
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 →
Volunteering in Skyline-Ganipa
Skyline-Ganipa is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
3.4%
3.4% of Skyline-Ganipa’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 5.2% in the typical New Mexico town and 7.5% nationally.
Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. ZIP-code figures, weighted by where Skyline-Ganipa’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Acoma Learning Center serves 2,947 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 4 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Acoma Learning Center system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
7,918 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
9 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
67 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
Acoma Learning Center, 17a Knots Landing Road, Pueblo of Acoma.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Acoma Learning Center branch.
New in Skyline-Ganipa? 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 $1.34 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Skyline-Ganipa cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $123K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $165K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $123K 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 2,013 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skyline-Ganipa | Acoma Learning Center | — | 42 | — unincorporated |
| McCartys Village | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| South Acomita Village | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Acomita Lake | 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. Acoma Learning Center serves 2,947 people in and around Skyline-Ganipa, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Skyline-Ganipa.
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 Skyline-Ganipa
Does Skyline-Ganipa have a public library?
Yes. Acoma Learning Center, 17a Knots Landing Road, serves 2,947 people in and around Skyline-Ganipa (the survey’s count) and is open about 42 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Acoma Learning Center 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 Skyline-Ganipa’s library?
It logged 0.4 visits and lent 2.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Skyline-Ganipa’s civic life grade?
Skyline-Ganipa isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Acoma Learning Center, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Skyline-Ganipa.
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.