Savona’s library runs 101 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Dr. Sandor & Berthe Benedek Memorial Library serves Savona’s 672 residents. Last year it lent 4,811 books, movies and e-books and logged 2,860 visits.
What Savona’s library is like
A small-town library
Dr. Sandor & Berthe Benedek Memorial Library serves 672 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 30 hours a week. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
A place to get online
Dr. Sandor & Berthe Benedek Memorial Library logs about 14 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 8 public computers. That’s 7.6 sessions per resident a year. A year at the library ↓
Savona invests in its library
Dr. Sandor & Berthe Benedek Memorial Library spends $130 per resident a year, about twice the typical $54 for a library its size. 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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Savona’s civic life grade
Savona 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 →
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 Savona cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $87K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $94K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $87K 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 561 cardholders ÷ 12.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Dr. Sandor & Berthe Benedek Memorial Library serves 672 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 3 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
4,811 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 14K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.2 time last year, on average.
1,398 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
68 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Savona last year.
Find it
Dr. Sandor & Berthe Benedek Memorial Library, 7 Mccoy Street, Savona.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Savona? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Dr. Sandor & Berthe Benedek Memorial Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Savona
Does Savona have a public library?
Yes. Dr. Sandor & Berthe Benedek Memorial Library, 7 Mccoy Street, serves Savona’s 672 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 30 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Dr. Sandor & Berthe Benedek Memorial 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 Savona’s library?
It logged 4.3 visits and lent 7.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Savona’s civic life grade?
Savona 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 Savona.
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.