Exceeding Expectations

Statistical Highlights

As the ninth largest library system in the United States, Broward County Library offers the community 37 locations countywide with a combined total of more than three million items in its collection. As a valuable quality-of-life service to the residents of Broward County, BCL provides books, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, materials for customers with disabilities. Additionally, the library is a crucial source of information access for customers, providing free public computers with Internet access as well as instructor-led computer classes and technology workshops.

In Fiscal Year 2008, Broward County generated the following statistics:

Hours Open to the Public:  92,645

Number of Customers:  10,418,402

Number of Holds Filled on Library Materials:  1,066,948

Total Number of Reference Questions:  3,208,172

Number of Public Computers with Internet Access:  1,415

Number of Customers Using Public Computers with Internet Access:  3,161,525

Number of Customers Given Computer Instruction:  720,435

Number of Adult Programs:  8,700

Number of Youth Programs:  12,451

Number of Volunteer Hours:  96,524

Financial Report

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*Graphs include:
All sources of revenues and expenditures including grants.