LVCCLD-About the Library-Locations & Hours

FAST FACTS

13.2 million:	Books and other materials checked out – a 9% increase over last year
6.8 million:	Visits to the 24 branches – a 5% increase over last year and twice the number who saw Celine Dion during her four-year Las Vegas run
2.9 million:	Number of items in the collection – almost 20 times the number of slot machines in Las Vegas
2.3 million:	Computer use – 4 % increase over last year
13,760:	Library-sponsored and community programs
553,960:	Children and adult program attendance
31,384:	Volunteer hours

City of Las Vegas and most of Clark County except for North Las Vegas, Boulder City and Henderson.
Serves 1.5 million people over 8,000 square miles—larger than the state of Connecticut.

Is an independent government agency and is not part of Las Vegas city government or the Clark County government.
Operations are overseen by a ten-member Board of Trustees, five appointed by the Clark County Commission and five appointed by the Las Vegas City Council.
The Board appoints the Library’s Executive Director and has the authority to make policies and approve the budget for the programs, activities and services the branches provide.
Regular Board of Trustees meetings are held the second Thursday of each month and are open to the public.
Funding is primarily from property taxes and consolidated sales tax.

343 full-time and 215 part-time staff.
Staff includes 108 professional librarians with MLIS degrees (Master of Library and Information Science).
Remaining staff are professionals and support staff in Administration, Public Services, Marketing, the Business Office, Development, Human Resources, General Services and Information Technology.

Includes 12 urban libraries, 11 outlying libraries and 1 outreach library.
The West Charleston Library includes a Health Science Library that supports, in particular, the students in health programs at the College of Southern Nevada.
Larger libraries offer meeting rooms, conference rooms, children’s storyrooms, and art galleries.
West Las Vegas, Summerlin and Clark County Libraries have theatres; West Charleston has a lecture hall, Whitney Library has a concert hall; Rainbow Library has an outdoor amphitheatre.