Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0Dushore’s library lends 2.1 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Sullivan County Library serves 5,840 people in and around Dushore. Last year it lent 16K books, movies and e-books and logged 11K visits.
What stands out about Sullivan County Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Dushore’s civic life grade
Dushore 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Sullivan County Library serves 5,840 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 7 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Sullivan County Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
16K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
3,500 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
116 programs a year
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
Sullivan County Library, 206 Center Street, Dushore.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Sullivan County Library branch.
New in Dushore? 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 $1.69 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Dushore cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $172K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $291K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $172K 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 2,503 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Sullivan County Library serves 5,840 people in and around Dushore, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Dushore.
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 Dushore
Does Dushore have a public library?
Yes. Sullivan County Library, 206 Center Street, serves 5,840 people in and around Dushore (the survey’s count) and is open about 43 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Sullivan County 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 Dushore’s library?
It logged 1.9 visits and lent 2.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Dushore’s civic life grade?
Dushore 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 Dushore.
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.