Lincoln City Libraries
Encyclopedia
Lincoln City Libraries is the official public library
system in Lincoln
, Nebraska
, USA. There are eight total branches.
The main location is Bennett Martin Public Library in Lincoln's downtown area, which includes three floors and a basement. Bennett Martin is also home to Polley Music Library and the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors. The other library locations are the Victor E. Anderson, Arnold Heights, Bethany Branch, Loren Corey Eiseley, Charles H. Gere, Bess Dodson Walt and Dan A. Williams branches.
The library system owns over 880,000 items, which together allow yearly circulation totals to exceed three million checkouts. In addition to circulation, LCL provides youth, teen, and adult programming to its customers throughout the year.
Lincoln City Libraries was evaluated in 2003 by Dubberly Garcia Associates, who performed a customer and non-user survey. The survey concluded that nearly 86% of customers were either 'satisfied" or 'very satisfied' with the library. Dubberly Garcia Associates indicated this was the second highest score among twenty-one similarly sized library systems throughout the country. Additionally, Hennen’s American Public Library Ratings ranks Lincoln City Libraries as one of the top ten in the nation in its population category based on circulation, staff, materials and reference service. Lincoln City Libraries has appeared in the top ten three previous times.
Public library
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system in Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second-most populous city of the US state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln's 2010 Census population was 258,379....
, Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....
, USA. There are eight total branches.
The main location is Bennett Martin Public Library in Lincoln's downtown area, which includes three floors and a basement. Bennett Martin is also home to Polley Music Library and the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors. The other library locations are the Victor E. Anderson, Arnold Heights, Bethany Branch, Loren Corey Eiseley, Charles H. Gere, Bess Dodson Walt and Dan A. Williams branches.
Information
Lincoln City Libraries provides services to Lincoln and Lancaster County residents.The library system owns over 880,000 items, which together allow yearly circulation totals to exceed three million checkouts. In addition to circulation, LCL provides youth, teen, and adult programming to its customers throughout the year.
Lincoln City Libraries was evaluated in 2003 by Dubberly Garcia Associates, who performed a customer and non-user survey. The survey concluded that nearly 86% of customers were either 'satisfied" or 'very satisfied' with the library. Dubberly Garcia Associates indicated this was the second highest score among twenty-one similarly sized library systems throughout the country. Additionally, Hennen’s American Public Library Ratings ranks Lincoln City Libraries as one of the top ten in the nation in its population category based on circulation, staff, materials and reference service. Lincoln City Libraries has appeared in the top ten three previous times.
External links
- Official site (also lincolnlibraries.org)