Photo: Jim Nall · Public domainCameron’s library is a branch of Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library, which lends less per resident than 84% of systems its size
Cameron’s library is the Cameron, a branch of Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library, which serves 30,591 people and lent 55K items last year.
What stands out about Cameron
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Cameron’s civic life grade
Cameron 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 1 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library serves 30,591 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 10 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
55K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Cameron’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
15,605 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
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.
Find it
Cameron, 1 Fitzgerald Avenue, Cameron.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library branch.
New in Cameron? 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 $1.27 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cameron cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $744K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $942K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $744K 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 15,531 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Cameron is one branch of Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 30,591 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 Cameron
Does Cameron have a public library?
Yes: Cameron, 1 Fitzgerald Avenue, is a branch of Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library, which serves 30,591 people. The branch is open about 29 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Moundsville-Marshall County Public 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 Cameron’s library?
It logged 1.2 visits and lent 1.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Cameron’s civic life grade?
Cameron 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 Cameron.
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.