Iowa has 543 public libraries with 1.7 million registered users.
Nationally, Iowa libraries rank 14th in library visits per capita.
The average Iowa pubic library answers 3,624 reference questions a year.
61,298 children participated in Iowa's Summer Library Programs in 2003.
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. --Archibald MacLeish, American Poet (1892-1982)