Photo: ToddC4176 · CC BY-SA 3.0Leyden’s library lends 6.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Robertson Memorial Library serves Leyden’s 734 residents. Last year it lent 4,753 print books and media and logged 2,956 visits.
What Leyden’s library is like
Open only about 12 hours a week
Robertson Memorial Library keeps short hours: about 12 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. Greenfield Public Library in Greenfield, next door, is open about 46 hours a week. The building ↓
A small-town library
Robertson Memorial Library serves 734 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Leyden’s civic life grade
Leyden isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
Civic life counts registered nonprofits, library visits and online volunteering groups, so it can miss civic life that runs through congregations, mutual aid or neighbors looking out for each other.
Library visits: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024. Nonprofits: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, October 2026. Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. How TownRatings grades civic life →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Robertson Memorial Library serves 734 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 8 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
4,753 print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Each of the 5,163 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.9 time last year, on average.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
15 programs a year
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
Robertson Memorial Library, 849 Greenfield Road, Leyden.
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 Leyden? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.62 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Leyden cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $30K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $79K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $30K 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 383 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Leyden ranks 3rd of 5 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield | Greenfield Public Library fine-free | 10.7 | 46 | A+ |
| Colrain | Griswold Memorial Library fine-free | 10.6 | 30 | B+ |
| Leyden | Robertson Memorial Library fine-free | 6.5 | 12 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Bernardston | Cushman Library fine-free | 2.8 | 18 | C+ |
| Guilford | Guilford Free Library fine-free | 2.1 | 24 | A+ |
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. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Digital loans not reported. Massachusetts libraries often don’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average; libraries are compared with others serving about as many people. How TownRatings uses library figures →
Questions about the library and civic life in Leyden
Does Leyden have a public library?
Yes. Robertson Memorial Library, 849 Greenfield Road, serves Leyden’s 734 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 12 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Robertson Memorial Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Leyden’s library?
It logged 4.0 visits and lent 6.5 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Leyden’s civic life grade?
Leyden isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Leyden.
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.