Jacksonville Public Library | |
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30°19′45″N 81°39′29″W / 30.329055°N 81.657958°W | |
Location | Jacksonville, Florida |
Established | 1878,1903 |
Branches | 22 |
Collection | |
Size | 2,354,787 (2015) [1] |
Access and use | |
Circulation | 4.2 million (FY2022) |
Population served | 1.8 million (FY2022) |
Members | 580,904 (2012–13) [1] |
Other information | |
Budget | $32,156,402 (FY2022) |
Director | Tim Rogers |
Employees | 500 |
Website | jaxpubliclibrary.org |
The Jacksonville Public Library is the public library system of Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It primarily serves Jacksonville and Duval County merged areas, and is also used by the neighboring Baker, Nassau, Clay, and St. Johns counties. It is one of the largest library systems in Florida, with a collection of over three million items. A division of the city government, the library has the third largest group of city employees, after the city's fire department and sheriff's office. There are twenty-one branches and a main library in the system.