St. Louis County Library has been ranked as a four star library in the 2018 Library Journal Index of Public Library Service for the fifth consecutive year. SLCL is one of six star libraries in the state of Missouri. The rank of four stars indicates a high per capita use in five major areas of library service: library visits, circulation, program attendance, circulation of electronic material and public Internet computer use. The ranking is based on statistics from 2016, when SLCL circulated over 13.6 million items despite having six branches closed for part of the year. Learn more.