Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Keeseville’s library runs 178 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Keeseville Free Library serves 1,831 people in and around Keeseville. Last year it lent 7,060 print books and media and logged 3,432 visits.
What Keeseville’s library is like
Mostly paid for by gifts, not taxes
51% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 47%. What your card is worth ↓
Nearly everyone the system serves has a card
1,734 cards for 1,831 people, or 95%. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
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; Keeseville Free Library serves 1,831 people in and around Keeseville, and its numbers cover all of them; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Keeseville’s civic life grade
Keeseville 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 →
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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Keeseville Free Library serves 1,831 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 4 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Keeseville Free Library system. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
7,060 print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Keeseville Free Library, 1721 Front Street, Keeseville.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Keeseville Free Library branch.
New in Keeseville? 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 $1.07 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Keeseville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $101K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $107K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $101K 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 1,734 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keeseville | Keeseville Free Library fine-free | — | 35 | — graded as part of its town |
| Chesterfield | Keeseville Free Library fine-free | — | 35 | C− |
| Au Sable | None of its own | — | — | C |
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.
- Digital loans not reported. New York libraries often don’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Keeseville Free Library serves 1,831 people in and around Keeseville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Keeseville.
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 Keeseville
Does Keeseville have a public library?
Yes. Keeseville Free Library, 1721 Front Street, serves 1,831 people in and around Keeseville (the survey’s count) and is open about 35 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Keeseville Free 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 Keeseville’s library?
It logged 1.9 visits and lent 3.9 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Keeseville’s civic life grade?
Keeseville 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 Keeseville.
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.