The Libraries of South Carolina
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Library | Support | Income | Number of volumes | Circulation | ||||
Entirely from public public funds | Partly from public public funds | Total | Per capita | Total | Per capita | Total | Per Capita | |
Allendale County | --- | 1 | $ 200.00 | $ 0.097 | 3,000 | 1.45 | 2500 | 1.21 |
Anderson Carnegie | 1 | --- | 2,440.56 | 0.169 | 9,500 | 0.66 | 48,763 | 3.39 |
Bamberg Book Club | --- | 1 | 130.25 | 0.053 | 2,097 | 0.86 | 2,017 | 0.82 |
Beaufort Township | 1 | --- | 1,400.00 | 0.184 | 5,500 | 0.63 | 12,123 | 1.39 |
Belton Public | --- | 1 | 305.29 | 0.174 | 2,680 | 1.52 | 3,521 | 1.99 |
Camden Public | --- | 1 | 1,000.00 | 0.198 | 4,000 | 0.77 | 12,500 | 2.41 |
Charleston Free | 1 | --- | 30,000.00 | 0.297 | 24,932 | 0.24 | 14,554 | 0.14 |
Clinton Public | --- | 1 | 100.00 | 0.018 | 4,139 | 0.74 | --- | --- |
Columbia Public | 1 | --- | 40,000.00 | 0.456 | 28,357 | 0.32 | 204,871 | 2.11 |
Darlington Public | 1 | --- | 5,251.70 | 0.945 | 7,800 | 1.40 | 43,797 | 7.88 |
D. A. Tompkins, Edgefield | --- | 1 | 557.00 | 0.261 | 5,000 | 2.35 | --- | --- |
Dixie (Orangeburg) | --- | 1 | 1,000.00 | 0.114 | 4,500 | 0.51 | --- | --- |
Florence Public | 1 | --- | 5,000.00 | 0.338 | 10,465 | 0.71 | 55,600 | 3.76 |
Gaffney Carnegie | 1 | --- | 1,800.00 | 0.264 | 7,500 | 1.10 | 30,640 | 4.49 |
Greenville Public | 1 | --- | 44,837.65 | 0.383 | 41,126 | 0.35 | 361,223 | 3.09 |
Greenwood Public | 1 | --- | 2,000.00 | 0.181 | 7,500 | 0.68 | 40,872 | 3.71 |
Honea Path Carnegie | --- | 1 | 558.00 | 0.204 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Kennedy Free, Spartanburg | --- | 1 | 9,547.00 | 0.082 | 18,000 | 0.15 | **51,244 | 0.44 |
Kingstree Carnegie | --- | 1 | 600.00 | 0.251 | 3,742 | 1.10 | 7,000 | 2.92 |
Lancaster Public | --- | 1 | 300.00 | 0.084 | 1,708 | 0.48 | --- | --- |
Latta Public | 1 | --- | 3,000.00 | 0.117 | 4,815 | 0.19 | 14,650 | 0.57 |
Laurens County | 1 | --- | 1,320.00 | 0.031 | 3,106 | 0.07 | 11,230 | 0.27 |
Marion Carnegie | 1 | --- | 3,762.00 | 0.764 | 9,388 | 1.91 | 41,909 | 8.52 |
Mullins Public | --- | 1 | 420.00 | 0.123 | 3,000 | 0.95 | 29,000 | 9.11 |
Newberry Library | --- | 1 | 75.00 | 0.010 | 3,458 | 0.47 | 7,864 | 1.08 |
Pendleton Public | 1 | --- | 300.00 | 0.290 | 5,000 | 4.83 | 1,809 | 1.74 |
Rock Hill Public | 1 | --- | 4,000.00 | 0.350 | 5,000 | 0.44 | --- | --- |
Sumter Carnegie | 1 | --- | 1,750.00 | 0.149 | 5,500 | 0.48 | 33,819 | 2.87 |
Union Carnegie | --- | 1 | 1,416.00 | 0.191 | 6,381 | 0.86 | 15,883 | 2.14 |
Walterboro Library Society | --- | 1 | 216.85 | 0.084 | 3,101 | 1.20 | 11,018 | 4.25 |
*Chester County began in 1932 the support of a library by taxation.
**Based on record for ten months
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