Photo: Dough4872 · Public domainPaoli’s library is a branch of Tredyffrin Public Library, which lends more per resident than 76% of systems its size
Paoli’s library is the Paoli Library, a branch of Tredyffrin Public Library, which serves 37,563 people and lent 353K items last year.
What stands out about Paoli Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Paoli’s civic life grade
Paoli 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 11 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 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Tredyffrin Public Library serves 37,563 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 70 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Tredyffrin Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
353K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
99,325 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Paoli Library, 18 Darby Road, Paoli.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Tredyffrin Public Library branch.
New in Paoli? 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 $2.79 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Paoli cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $2M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $5.6M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2M 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 14,625 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berwyn | Easttown Library | 32.3 | 58 | — graded as part of its town |
| Paoli | Paoli Library | — | 44 | — graded as part of its town |
| Malvern | Malvern Public Library | — | 54 | B |
| Tredyffrin Township | Tredyffrin Public Library | — | 53 | B+ |
| Willistown Township | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
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. Paoli Library is one branch of Tredyffrin Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 37,563 people it serves.
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 Paoli
Does Paoli have a public library?
Yes: Paoli Library, 18 Darby Road, is a branch of Tredyffrin Public Library, which serves 37,563 people. The branch is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Tredyffrin 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 Paoli’s library?
It logged 4.1 visits and lent 9.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Paoli’s civic life grade?
Paoli 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 Paoli.
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.