Photo: AITFFan1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Roosevelt’s library lends 0.8 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Roosevelt Public Library serves 19,574 people in and around Roosevelt. Last year it lent 20K books, movies and e-books and logged 65K visits.
The short version on Roosevelt’s library
Well funded, but lightly used
Roosevelt Public Library spends $144 per resident, more than 96% of similar-size libraries. Use doesn’t match: visits per resident are lower than at 46% of them. What your card is worth ↓
People visit, but borrow less than most
Roosevelt Public Library lends 0.8 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, fewer than 93% of similar-size libraries, though visits are closer to typical. 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; Roosevelt Public Library serves 19,574 people in and around Roosevelt, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Roosevelt’s civic life grade
Roosevelt 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 →
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Roosevelt cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $2.8M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $334K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2.8M 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 5,877 cardholders ÷ 12.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Roosevelt Public Library serves 19,574 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 6 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Roosevelt Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
20K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
4,034 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
Roosevelt Public Library, 27 West Fulton Avenue, Roosevelt.
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 Roosevelt Public Library branch.
New in Roosevelt? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt | Roosevelt Public Library fine-free | — | 62 | — graded as part of its town |
| Freeport | Freeport Memorial Library | — | 66 | D |
| Uniondale | Uniondale Public Library | — | 60 | — graded as part of its town |
| Baldwin | Baldwin Public Library fine-free | — | 61 | — graded as part of its town |
| Merrick | North Merrick Public Library | — | 62 | — graded as part of its town |
| North Merrick | 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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Roosevelt Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- System-wide. Roosevelt Public Library serves 19,574 people in and around Roosevelt, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Roosevelt.
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 Roosevelt
Does Roosevelt have a public library?
Yes. Roosevelt Public Library, 27 West Fulton Avenue, serves 19,574 people in and around Roosevelt (the survey’s count) and is open about 62 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt’s library?
It logged 3.3 visits and lent 1.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Roosevelt’s civic life grade?
Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt.
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.