Nueces County Library, serving an area of 33,000 residents, has a collection of 46,000 books and periodicals.
Staffing consists of 2 employees, including one fully accredited librarian, plus volunteers. The system comprises one central library and one branch library. Annual expenditures on the library collection total $8,800. Patrons make 100,000 visits annually, and check out materials 19,800 times. Forty-two percent of all check-outs are children's materials.