CW MARS Year in Review 2024
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 whopping 1.5 BILLION pages of material. With more ways to use your library than ever before, we can’t wait to see what you do in 2025!
