Photo: TravelingOtter · CC BY 2.0Keystone’s library logs 13 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Keystone Town Library serves Keystone’s 402 residents. Last year it lent 3,772 books, movies and e-books and logged 5,282 visits.
The short version on Keystone’s library
Most of Keystone’s borrowing is digital
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 51% of loans, more per resident than at 95% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 49%. What people borrow ↓
A small-town library
Keystone Town Library serves 402 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 29 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 ↓
People come to Keystone Town Library a lot
Keystone Town Library logs 13 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, more than 94% of similar-size libraries. Borrowing is above typical too, at 4.6 print items per resident. How it compares ↓
Nearly everyone in Keystone has a card
371 cards for 402 people, or 92%. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
Keystone invests in its library
Keystone Town Library spends $204 per resident a year, about four times the typical $54 for a library its size. Almost all of it (97%) comes from local taxes. 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 Keystone’s civic life grade
Keystone 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 →
Every hour the doors are open, about 3 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Keystone Town Library serves 402 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
51% of borrowing is digital
3,772 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 14K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
1,907 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
88 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.
Find it
Keystone Town Library, 1101 Madill St., Keystone.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Keystone? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Keystone cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $82K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $75K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $82K 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 371 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Keystone
Does Keystone have a public library?
Yes. Keystone Town Library, 1101 Madill St., serves Keystone’s 402 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 29 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Keystone Town 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 Keystone’s library?
It logged 13.1 visits and lent 9.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Keystone’s civic life grade?
Keystone 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 Keystone.
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.