Menno’s library lends 8.1 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Menno Community-School Library serves 1,608 people in and around Menno. Last year it lent 15K books, movies and e-books and logged 5,358 visits.
What stands out about Menno Community-School Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Menno’s civic life grade
Menno 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 →
Mostly books and media off the shelf
15K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
2,073 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Menno Community-School Library serves 1,608 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 7 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Menno Community-School Library system. The library’s own count.
22 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
Find it
Menno Community-School Library, 410 S 5th Street, Menno.
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 Menno Community-School Library branch.
New in Menno? 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 $11.74 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Menno cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $22K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $254K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $22K 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 937 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Menno Community-School Library serves 1,608 people in and around Menno, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Menno.
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 Menno
Does Menno have a public library?
Yes. Menno Community-School Library, 410 S 5th Street, serves 1,608 people in and around Menno (the survey’s count) and is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Menno Community-School 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 Menno’s library?
It logged 3.3 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 Menno’s civic life grade?
Menno 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 Menno.
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.