Millers Falls Library
Montague Public Libraries serves 8,463 people in and around Millers Falls. Last year it lent 84K books, movies and e-books and logged 27K visits.
What Millers Falls’s library is like
Open only about 10 hours a week
Montague Public Libraries keeps short hours: about 10 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. Montague Public Libraries in Montague, next door, is open about 75 hours a week. The building ↓
Millers Falls is a town of borrowers
Montague Public Libraries lends 9.9 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, more than 91% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
Montague Public Libraries serves more than Millers Falls
The library’s service area covers 8,463 people in and around Millers Falls, so its per-resident numbers are measured against that wider population. How it compares ↓
This summary is written from the numbers on this page. Numbers are the library’s own report to the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
Books and media off the shelf
84K print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Each of the 47K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.8 times last year, on average.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.40 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Millers Falls cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $578K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $578K budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
Retail prices are typical, rounded down: a new book $17, a kids’ book $12, an e-book or e-audiobook $15, a movie rental $4, a class or program $10, a computer or Wi-Fi session $3. The average cardholder’s month = the library’s yearly loans, attendance and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ its 4,066 cardholders ÷ 12.
Every hour the doors are open, about 17 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Strongest at borrowing per resident
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S. A tiny town’s library always looks busier per person, so it’s only compared with its own size.
library systems for visits per resident.
Montague Public Libraries serves 8,463 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
About 3 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Find it
Millers Falls Library, 23 Bridge Street, Millers Falls.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Millers Falls? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Libraries next door
Millers Falls ranks 2nd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report.
About these numbers
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Hours are an average. The survey reports a building’s public hours for the whole year. We divide by the weeks it was open, so check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
- Compared by size. “Similar-size” means libraries serving about as many people, nationwide. Per-resident numbers always flatter the smallest towns, so they’re never compared with big cities.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Millers Falls.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Libraries: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024. Each library reports its own numbers. Distances are straight-line from the town center. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.