Burns’ library is a branch of Laramie County Library System, which lends more per resident than 65% of systems its size
Burns’s library is the Burns Branch Library, a branch of Laramie County Library System, which serves 100,984 people and lent 679K items last year.
What stands out about Burns Branch Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Burns’ civic life grade
Burns 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 22 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 all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Laramie County Library System serves 100,984 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 104 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Laramie County Library System system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
679K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
227,265 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., Burns.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Laramie County Library System branch.
New in Burns? 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 $1.44 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Burns cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $7.2M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $7.2M 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 68,968 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Burns Branch Library is one branch of Laramie County Library System, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 100,984 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 Burns
Does Burns have a public library?
Yes: Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., is a branch of Laramie County Library System, which serves 100,984 people. The branch is open about 27 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Laramie 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 Burns’ library?
It logged 3.2 visits and lent 6.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Burns’ civic life grade?
Burns 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 Burns.
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.