The Libraries of South Carolina
by Mary Frayser
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Table 4. -- Income, Number of Volumes, and Circulation of Public Libraries Supported, Wholly or in Part by Public Funds, South Carolina, 1931*
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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