Copake Iron Works Historic District · Photo: IlyaSukhanov · CC BY-SA 3.0Copake’s library logs 5.1 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Roeliff Jansen Community Library serves 6,617 people in and around Copake. Last year it lent 52K books, movies and e-books and logged 34K visits.
The short version on Copake’s library
Mostly paid for by gifts, not taxes
90% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 9%. What your card is worth ↓
40% of borrowing happens on a screen
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 40% of loans, more per resident than at 90% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 60%, much of it kids’ books. What people borrow ↓
Programs lean toward adults
67% of the 325 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 102 were for children. Kids & programs ↓
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; Roeliff Jansen Community Library serves 6,617 people in and around Copake, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Copake’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Copake is ahead of 81% of U.S. towns, #125 of 751 in New York. Copake is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups ranks highest.
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 →
15 community nonprofits are registered in Copake
4.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
Community nonprofits, by kind
Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (0 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
10.0%
10.0% of Copake’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 7.4% in the typical New York 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 Copake’s residents live; 2022.
40% of borrowing is digital
52K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
20,736 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Roeliff Jansen Community Library serves 6,617 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 23 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Roeliff Jansen Community Library system. The library’s own count.
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
Roeliff Jansen Community Library, 9091 State Route 22, Hillsdale.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Roeliff Jansen Community Library branch.
New in Copake? 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 $1.89 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Copake cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $451K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $853K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $451K 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 4,270 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.
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. Roeliff Jansen Community Library serves 6,617 people in and around Copake, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Copake.
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 Copake
Does Copake have a public library?
Yes. Roeliff Jansen Community Library, 9091 State Route 22, serves 6,617 people in and around Copake (the survey’s count) and is open about 43 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Roeliff Jansen Community 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 Copake’s library?
It logged 5.1 visits and lent 7.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Copake’s civic life grade?
A− Copake is ahead of 81% of U.S. towns on civic life, #125 of 751 in New York. The grade combines library visits per resident, community nonprofits per 1,000 residents and the share of adults 25–44 in volunteering groups. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Copake.
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.