California's Public Libraries at a Glance (FY 2015 - 16 data)
Locations, staffing and facilities
- 184 jurisdictions
- 1119 libraries
- 16,598 staff
- 1,707 volunteer FTE per week
Collections and Circulation
- 82,185,788 total collection items (physical and digital)
- Total collection use: 278,070,945
- Total collection expenditures: $131,437,165
- Physical item circulation: 177,370,168
- Children's books held: 2,360,016
- Young adult books held: 3,216,006
- Interlibrary loans made: 3,526,193
- Interlibrary loans borrowed: 3,297,841
Public use
- 154,544,298 library visits
- 19,251,121 reference questions
- 117,332 adult programs; 1,766,166 program attendance
- 8,921 young adult programs; 600,033 program attendance
- 231,824 children's programs; 7,450,369 program attendance
- 29,126,038 annual uses of public internet computers
- 128,278,588 virtual visits to library websites
For more statistics on California's public libraries, visit the California Public Library Statistics portal at http://www.californialibrarystatistics.com