I have read many articles about American public libraries, but I don't seem to make it clear. It is necessary to clarify here. Strictly speaking, according to the statistics of 20 10, there are 895 1 public libraries in the United States. In the United States, public libraries mainly refer to administrative libraries. The so-called administrative library is a public institution established by the (local) government according to law. A management library can have many branches. For example, the largest administrative library has 89 branches, or there may be only one library (865,438+0% administrative libraries have no branches or garages). If all public libraries are * * * *. According to the statistics of 20 10, there are 17078 public libraries in the United States, that is, an administrative agency has an average of 1.9 libraries. Therefore, there are 3 administrative libraries and 5.8 personal libraries for every 654.38 million+Americans.