Help Us Chart the Library’s Course for the Future!

We continually evaluate our goals and priorities, and as we plan for the next few years, we want your input. Please take a minute to complete a very short survey about what you think the Library’s three top service priorities should be.Click here to take survey. For a printable page of detailed information about each library service area, click this link: Library Service Areas Defined.

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Library Value Calculator

Libraries throughout the state of New Hampshire offer a variety of entertainment and educational materials to taxpayers at a very economical rate.

The average New Hampshire taxpayer contributes about $26 in taxes per year to fund public libraries and their services.1 But how much would they need to pay out-of-pocket if they purchased their books, movies and other library services in stores?

Use our calculator to find out!

Enter in the left hand column the number of times per month you and your family use each service.
The estimated retail value of each service will be calculated on the right.
The total value of their library use is shown at the bottom of the worksheet.
Tip: Tab between entries and do not use commas.

**Value of Library Services**
Services Used	Library Services	Value of Services
	Books Borrowed	$
	Magazines Borrowed	$
	Movies Borrowed	$
	Audiobooks Borrowed	$
	Museum Passes Borrowed (per person)	$
	Magazine Use in Library	$
	Interlibrary Loan Materials	$
	Meeting Room Use per Hour	$
	Adult Programs Attended (per person)	$
	Children's Programs Attended (per person)	$
	Hours of Computer Use (i.e. Internet, MS Word, etc.)	$
	Newspaper Articles Viewed Online	$
	EBSCO Database Searching (number of months used)	$
	Reference Questions Asked	$

		$

The NH Library Use Calculator is based on the spreadsheet developed by the Massachusetts Library Association and adapted for web use by the Maine State Library, the Chelmsford Public Library and the Chelsey Memorial Library.

Find out how we calculated these figures.

Footnote #1: This figure comes from the 2006 New Hampshire Public Library Annual Report. As soon as the 2007 report is released, we will update this figure.

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