Middle Island’s library runs 33 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14 for libraries its size
Longwood Public Library serves 67,883 people in and around Middle Island. Last year it lent 496K books, movies and e-books and logged 187K visits.
What Middle Island’s library is like
Open about 68 hours a week
The Middle Island branch is open about 68 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
A well-funded system
Longwood Public Library spends $109 per resident a year, about twice the typical $40 for a library its size. Almost all of it (96%) comes from local taxes. What your card is worth ↓
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; Longwood Public Library serves 67,883 people in and around Middle Island, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Middle Island’s civic life grade
Middle Island 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 17 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 all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Longwood Public Library serves 67,883 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 140 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Longwood Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
496K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
166,893 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Longwood Public Library, 800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island.
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 Longwood Public Library branch.
New in Middle Island? 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 $1.11 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Middle Island cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $7.4M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $8.2M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $7.4M 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 39,645 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Island | Longwood Public Library fine-free | — | 68 | — graded as part of its town |
| Coram | Middle Country Public Library - Selden fine-free | — | 66 | — graded as part of its town |
| Yaphank | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Gordon Heights | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Rocky Point | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Ridge | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Miller Place | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
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. Longwood Public Library serves 67,883 people in and around Middle Island, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Middle Island.
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 Middle Island
Does Middle Island have a public library?
Yes. Longwood Public Library, 800 Middle Country Road, serves 67,883 people in and around Middle Island (the survey’s count) and is open about 68 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Longwood Public 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 Middle Island’s library?
It logged 2.8 visits and lent 7.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Middle Island’s civic life grade?
Middle Island 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 Middle Island.
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.