In 2006, for a population of 63,027, there were 63,713
public library patrons; borrowers as a percentage of population reached
101 percent.
Is Will Wilkinson now one of them? Here is more. In another life, I would write a whole blog just on public libraries. UNESCO, by the way, has just designated Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature. Edinburgh and Melbourne are the other two.
Tyler, the Iowa figures seem odd to me. Is it fair to assume that someone is a patron – technically in the sense they actually borrow books? My sense is that there is an opt-out clause in Iowa city for library membership. This might artificially boost the rate of patrons…
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