Cherrydale Library occupies 4,704 square feet (or about 5,600 square feet, if the balcony is included).
Cherrydale Library more than carries its weight. The following figures are from the county manager's proposed budget for FY 2027:
- Personnel Costs: Cherrydale Library's permanent FTEs (fulltime equivalent employees) constitute 2.7 percent of the Libraries Department's total permanent FTEs.
- Circulation: Cherrydale Library handled 4.6 percent of the library system's total circulation in FY 2026.
- Program Attendance: Program attendance at Cherrydale Library in FY 2026 was 3.7 percent of program attendance throughout the library system.
Guess what else! Cherrydale Library is remarkably energy efficient, owing to its having been built into the side of a hill. Arlington County's analysis of
energy consumption by each library in the system
identifies Cherrydale Library as "among the very most efficient buildings in the Arlington government inventory." Also, the Arlington County Initiative
To Reduce Emissions has spotlighted Cherrydale Library as "one of the County's greatest success stories." At the ceremony celebrating Cherrydale Library's
50th anniversary, the Executive Director of Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment, Elenor Hodges, read and presented a special
Letter of Commendation praising additional steps the library has taken in recent years to enhance its
environmental friendliness. In April 2012 the library received a cool sign, which went up in the front foyer. Click on the thumbnail image over on
the right to see it.
