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14 Resources — Hours of Service ■ Public library standards Figure 12 : Standards for hours of service Standard 26 : "The library is open to the public at fixed times and with a uniform schedule . The library provides minimum unduplicated service hours as follows : " Quality Level Minimum Unduplicated Hours Essential 40 hours (from FL law) Enhanced 68` hours 20 of these must be evenings and weekends Exemplary 76 hours 7 days a week; 4 evenings Comparison to Florida standard : at 65 . 6 hours a week Indian River County Library meets the requirements of Florida law to receive state aid and falls within the Essential quality level . r ■ Peer comparisons The Florida peer group has a high of '69 hours a week and a low of 56 . Just one library, St. Johns County, meets the Enhanced quality level . Open hours were not compared for the national peer group . Resources — Technology ■ Public library standards Figure 13 : Public Access Computers Standard Standard 101 : "Availability of public access Internet-connected computer workstations . " Essential Enhanced Exemplary Number of operating Minimum of 1 1 public 1 public computer public workstation workstation per workstation per workstations per 3 ,000 2 , 000 population 1 ,000 population population "" ■ IRC Library technology resources • Indian River public libraries offer extensive technology based services, including : • Access to libraries by telephone and facsimile Web site , both a system/Main Library site and a separate North IRC site • Integrated , web-based library database (catalog of materials , registrant records , circulation records) . Some public computer workstations are reserved for catalog access . The catalog stations at the Main Library are not all web based . Library staff report that these workstations are being phased out, Indian River County Library Master Facilities Plan 2005 - 2025 rrri