CW MARS NEWS

  This summer we welcome two new libraries to C/W MARS: The Peru Public Library located in Peru, MA in Berkshire County.  Peru's population was 814 at the 2020 census. The Worthington Library located Worthington, MA in Hampshire County.  Worthington's population was 1,193 at the 2020 census. Membership in C/W MARS connects libraries with the thousands of  resources owned and shared by all 167 member libraries throughout central and western Massachusetts. Twenty new small member libraries have joined C/W MARS since 2020. 

CW MARS 2024 in Review In 2024, as a patron of a CW MARS library, you crushed it ! You saved almost 210 million dollars by borrowing nearly 13 million physical and digital titles instead of buying the material outright. If we stacked every book you borrowed from your library this year on top of each other, they'd reach 150 miles high, or in New England measurements, about 1.9 million medium DUNKIN’ coffee cups!  On average, your library's collection is 16,500% larger thanks to being part of the CW MARS network, and you made the most of it in 2024! This year, you requested over 1.2 million items from across the state, which were delivered right to your local library. If you were to drive to a library every time they shared an item, it would have taken you about 1.8 million gallons of gas.  Thanks to our automatic renewal process, we saved you over 14 million clicks on your phones and computers, putting those finger muscles to better use flipping and swiping through a who...