Pocono Pines’ library runs 49 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Clymer Library Association serves 15,352 people in and around Pocono Pines. Last year it lent 38K books, movies and e-books and logged 18K visits.
What stands out about Clymer Library Association
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Pocono Pines’ civic life grade
Pocono Pines 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 3 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 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Clymer Library Association serves 15,352 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 14 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Clymer Library Association system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
38K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
7,426 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Clymer Library Association, 115 Firehouse Rd., Pocono Pines.
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 Clymer Library Association branch.
New in Pocono Pines? 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 $1.87 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Pocono Pines cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $385K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $722K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $385K 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 3,662 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Clymer Library Association serves 15,352 people in and around Pocono Pines, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Pocono Pines.
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 Pocono Pines
Does Pocono Pines have a public library?
Yes. Clymer Library Association, 115 Firehouse Rd., serves 15,352 people in and around Pocono Pines (the survey’s count) and is open about 51 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Clymer Library Association 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 Pocono Pines’ library?
It logged 1.2 visits and lent 2.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Pocono Pines’ civic life grade?
Pocono Pines 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 Pocono Pines.
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.