Cherrydale Library

Size of Library and Cost to Taxpayers

As of 1998, the most recent year in which the County Board considered closing Cherrydale Library:

• Cherrydale Library occupied 4,704 square feet and had 29,193 books.

• It cost the average property tax payer in Arlington County 77 cents per year to operate Cherrydale Library.

• Cherrydale Library consumed 2.8 percent of the budget of the Department of Libraries, while handling 5 percent of the total circulation of the County's library system.

• Cherrydale Library served 61 percent more visitors per dollar and accounted for 79 percent more books checked out per dollar than the Arlington County library system as a whole.

• The total annual operating cost of Cherrydale Library was $243,000, or .04 percent (that's four-hundreths of one percent) of the total County budget.