Strother Memorial Chapel · Photo: kennethaw88 · CC BY 4.0Seminole’s library logs 4.8 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Seminole Public Library serves Seminole’s 7,262 residents. Last year it lent 56K books, movies and e-books and logged 35K visits.
The short version on Seminole’s library
More library cards than residents
19,997 cards for 7,262 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
46% of borrowing happens on a screen
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 46% of loans, more per resident than at 93% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 54%, much of it kids’ books. What people borrow ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Seminole Public Library offered 45 programs last year, 6.2 per 1,000 residents against a typical 34. Kids & programs ↓
A place to get online
Seminole Public Library logs about 174 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 9 public computers. That’s 8.7 sessions per resident a year. A year at the library ↓
A big collection for the borrowing it gets
Seminole Public Library holds 53,000 books and other items, but the average item went out about once every two years last year. 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.
What’s behind Seminole’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Seminole is ahead of 59% of U.S. towns, #63 of 128 in Oklahoma. Library visits hold the grade up; Seminole’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
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 →
26 community nonprofits are registered in Seminole
3.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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 (13 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
7.6%
7.6% of Seminole’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 9.7% in the typical Oklahoma 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 Seminole’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Seminole Public Library serves 7,262 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 19 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
46% of borrowing is digital
56K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 53K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.6 time last year, on average.
25,813 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
45 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 Seminole last year.
Find it
Seminole Public Library, 424 N Main, Seminole.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Seminole? 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 $3.67 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Seminole cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $276K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $276K budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
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 19,997 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Seminole Public 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 Seminole
Does Seminole have a public library?
Yes. Seminole Public Library, 424 N Main, serves Seminole’s 7,262 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 56 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Seminole Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Seminole’s library?
It logged 4.8 visits and lent 7.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Seminole’s civic life grade?
B Seminole is ahead of 59% of U.S. towns on civic life, #63 of 128 in Oklahoma. 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 Seminole.
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.