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Orange County Library Long-Range Facility Planning Chart #1: Orange County Library Resources Comepared to State Averages and Standards 2002-2003 Resources Orange County Chapel Hill NC Central Libra Public Libra Avers elGuidelines Estimated Population 71,225 50,540 8,323,375 (est.2002 total NC population Books per capita 1.01 2.75 1.88 Basic Standard = 2 Reader seats/1,000 .88 1.8 Not Available population Prof: Standard = 3-5 Full-time equivalent .27 1.22 1 staff/2,000 population Square foots a/ca ita .18 .54 Standard = .65 Registered 19.8% 50% 50% borrowers/% of population Circulation per capita 2.02 15.55 5.38 Library income per $10.12* $38.40 $18..88 capita Local Government $8.16* $33.03 (Town & $15.55 revenues per capita County) *Includes funds to support the Carrboro and Cedar Grove Libraries Despite a number of very positive attributes of the Orange County Library - the quality, creativity and initiative of library staff, its programs and outreach efforts, and its local history collection, among others -- facility space, staffing levels and collection size are significantly below average and do not come close to meeting professional standards. Steps have been taken in the last several years to extend services beyond the central library, including opening the Carrboro Library, the recent opening of the Carrboro Cybrary, and the opening of the Cedar Grove Library. The library administration has made a concerted effort to find creative and collaborative ways to offer library services and utilize existing space„ These steps have helped to bring the system a bit closer to the North Carolina average both in resources available and in per capita use, but the system still lags significantly behind the norm. Still using the estimated population in 2002 as a basis (i.e. not adjusting for population increase since then): • Space per capita has risen to .31 square feet • Books per capita has risen to 1.2 • Reader seats per capita has risen to 2.97 (the Carrboro Branch has 120 reader seats compared to 63 at the central library) • Library card registration as a percentage of population has risen to 30.6% (current year figures) • Total library income per capita for 2004-2005 has risen to $12.02 • Local revenues (Orange County and Carrboro)Ias risen to $11.04 per capita ? The population is grafving at a high rate, with significant growth in the number of older residents and residents moving here from other countries. The central library has l0