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Facts about the Library past and present:

	1962 Hussey Home Private Library	1994 250 N. Fifth St. Public Library	2006 250 N. Fifth St. Public Library	2008 250 N. Fifth St. Public Library
Sq. Feet	1,600 Estimated	25,411	54,000	54,000
# Public Seats	24	109	261	261
# Parking Spaces	13 Staff/Visitors	63 Staff/Visitors	125 Staff/Visitors	125 Staff/Visitors
# Employees	19 (1990)	36	44	47
# Hours Open	59 (1990)	59/wk	63/wk	63/wk
Bond Issues	NA	$3.2 Million	$4.2 Million	NA
Project Cost	NA	$4,087,563	$6,653,095	NA
Annual Circulation	8,194 in 5 months	85,579	447,011	485,763
Operating Expenditures	NA	$905,527	$1,500,042	$1,885,318
Cardholders	791	5,448	14,411	13,563 Active Users
Collection	5,757 Books Only	32,028	114,977	132,642

The Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library has a service area / Library district population of approximately 16,000 residents [2000 census]. The Library district serves the residents of two townships, Eagle and Union, and the town of Zionsville, which is the same area as the Zionsville Community Schools district.

The Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library operating fund is funded through a combination of COIT (County Option Income Tax), local property and excise taxes. Library programming is funded solely through generous support from the Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library Foundation and the Friends of the Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library, both 501 (c) (3) non-profit organizations. Grants and additional fundraising comprise the remainder of funds used to provide services to the residents of the Zionsville Public Library district.

The Library purchases between 6,000 – 8,000 new items annually. The collection, through continuous maintenance, numbers approximately 130,000 items. The building, at capacity will hold approximately 200,000 items.
The Library currently offers a variety of materials for youth, teens and adults that are housed in the Zionsville Public Library’s facility. These include fiction and nonfiction books, magazines, newspapers, VHS movies, DVDs, books on tape and CD, music CDs and AV Kits. A number of online databases are also available.

The Library is a member of the Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium and provides access to thousands of library materials owned by other member public libraries across Indiana, which may be borrowed by HMMPL card holders. The Library has both public use computer labs and public wireless connections to the Internet. We offer public meeting rooms, services for home school families, youth and adult programming, elderly and shut in outreach services as well as a variety of school connection services.

To learn more about the Library mission and vision, click Here

For a brief history of the Public Library in Zionsville, click Here (pdf)