The East Lansing Public Library (ELPL) is a municipal library. It serves the highly diverse, ever-changing population of Michigan State University domestic students, international students and professors along with the permanent residents of East Lansing and the Lansing area. The city of East Lansing has a resident population of 48,579. Nearly 16 percent of the city’s population speaks a language other than English at home, with the majority in Asian languages. In addition to cultural diversity, ELPL serves socioeconomic and extreme age diversity.