Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 3.0Eagleville’s library is a branch of Rutherford County Library System, which lends more per resident than 63% of systems its size
Eagleville’s library is the Eagleville Bicentennial Public Library, a branch of Rutherford County Library System, which serves 327,503 people and lent 1.8M items last year.
What stands out about Eagleville Bicentennial Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Eagleville’s civic life grade
Eagleville 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 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Rutherford County Library System serves 327,503 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 93 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Rutherford County Library System system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
1.8M loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
441,391 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 33 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.
Find it
Eagleville Bicentennial Public Library, 317 Highway 99e, Eagleville.
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 Rutherford County Library System branch.
New in Eagleville? 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 $7.41 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Eagleville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $3.8M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $28M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $3.8M 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 83,503 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Eagleville Bicentennial Public Library is one branch of Rutherford County Library System, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 327,503 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 Eagleville
Does Eagleville have a public library?
Yes: Eagleville Bicentennial Public Library, 317 Highway 99e, is a branch of Rutherford County Library System, which serves 327,503 people. The branch is open about 36 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Rutherford County Library System 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 Eagleville’s library?
It logged 1.7 visits and lent 5.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Eagleville’s civic life grade?
Eagleville 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 Eagleville.
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.