Fact Sheet

• Essex, Connecticut, population – 7,000
• Registered library patrons - 5,000
• Library building expanded and renovated in 2006
• Library Staff - 10
• Collection Size - 33,000
• Circulation approaching 70,000
• Library Patrons daily - 100
• Computer uses - 6,240 (average 20 patrons per day)
• Blog hits - 7,000
• Subscribers to Librar-E-Lations (online e-newsletter) - 1,129
• Interlibrary Loan 8,210 items borrowed, 5,449 items loaned
• Holds placed on materials - 6,450 (82% were filled)
• Adult Programs and sessions offered - 77
• Total adult program attendance - 1,871
• Children’s programs and sessions offered - 131
• Total children’s program attendance (including adults) - 2,953