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^ In NC, for the most part, libraries are run by counties, not cities. And unfortunately that often means they're not well-located for the city's needs.
Funny they restricted this poll to cities of a population of 250k or more. Only 3 NC cities even have that many people! That kinda eliminates a lot of them.
It seems that there is still only one library in Cary, http://www.wakegov.com/locations/lib...nchlibrary.htm, built in 1977 when there were 25,000 residents. The collection has 110,00 books, which is just one book per resident. For that population and education level, one would expect a much larger library or more than one with a minumum of twice that many books.
http://www.chplfoundation.org/help/library-needs (broken link) is the Chapel Hill library foundation page. The Chapel Hill library has the highest per resident circulation of any public library in NC. They have 2.4 books for capita and would like to have 4. They recently passed a bond to add on to the library there. That is one of the advantages of town control over the library rather than county.
Kind of off topic but how are the libraries in Raleigh.. is there a central one located downtown?
No, Wake County runs a very de-centralized library system, with no central library, several medium-sized "Regional Branches" and many smaller Community Branches spread all over the county. (So no central downtown library, instead there are two libraries on either end of downtown Raleigh, a Regional Branch in Cameron Village and a smaller community branch on New Bern Ave.)
Durham County, as an example of the opposite, runs a centralized library system, with one real big one downtown and few small local branches around the rest of the county. Forsyth County (Winston-Salem) does as well. I wish Wake's was more like that, personally.
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That kinda eliminates a lot of them.
