Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
I guessed, based on population size of cities. Manchester is very likely to have more than 100,000 volumes. Other, smaller cities in NH are very likely to have less than 100,000. It's the population cut. I've been studying population size of NH towns.

Past experience has shown me that cities of population 50,000 with well funded libraries have 100,000+ volumes. I lived in 3 college towns in a row with pop 50,000. College towns like their libraries.

There is a library directory that lists this kind of thing but it's not available on the web that I can find, it's one of those secret sources only librarians can access.
Iris Lily, I found this website: http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/lds/public_library_stats.html

If you check tab 16, which is Chart 17, of 2012 Selected Data Comparison Tables, you will find the holdings count for most of the public libraries in NH.

My town doesn't quite make your cut, with just over 90,000 volumes, but there are six cities which do. In addition, if you live in Durham, Lee or Madbury, you can use the UNH library for free. All other state residents must pay $60 a year to check out books (you can go and read to your heart's content in the building for free). Keene also has enough books in their public library to make the cut, and residents can also use the Keene State College Library.