Key facts

• Directed by a seven-member Board of Trustees

• Covering 2,260 square miles in Snohomish and Island counties (excluding Everett and Woodway)

• Serving 743,540 residents through 22 community libraries, online

  services

  and Library on Wheels

• 2016 budget over $51 million

• 97.5 percent of library revenue from property and timber taxes

• 7.97 million library items borrowed in 2015

• 504 full- and part-time employees

• More than 1.2 million books, CDs, DVDs, and eBooks available

• More than 640 public computers available for free customer use

• More than 5,400 Library On Wheels stops each year to homebound individuals, daycare

  centers

  and preschools as well as stops in remote communities and senior facilities