240,353   Visits to the library, with the average of 707 people coming to the library daily

9,351         Reference questions answered by reference librarians

15,798      Attendance at 638 library sponsored programs in library meeting rooms, and school visits: 2,664 adults attended 68 events, 13,134 children and youth attended 570 events both on site and at schools. Cornerstones of Science events are included, see the COS highlights for details.

8,584         Attendance at 483 non-library group uses of the Morrell Meeting Room and Seminar Room. Meeting space is provided at no charge to local groups for noncommercial activity (donations for facility maintenance is encouraged. Room fees are charged to groups hosting events that have an admission or registration fee. See Meeting Room Contributors’ list in this report.

302             Free Museum (or reduced price) Passes issued, courtesy of memberships provided by the Friends of the Library (Children’s Museum of Maine, Maine Maritime Museum, Maine Wildlife Park, Pejepscot Historical Society, Portland Museum of Art)

1,483,488  Website pages loaded on 6 web domains (83.4% curtislibrary.com; 11.2 % Snow index to Times Record; 4.4% cornerstonesofscience.org). Also in use are: community.curtislibrary.com for sites hosted for community organizations, midcoastbrc.org (Business Resource Center) and curtislibrary.org (a testing site slated to be the main library domain after the site is redeveloped.) CHIPlibrary.org is managed by CML and the CHIP partnership, with significant additional web traffic