Photo: Dave Bezaire · CC BY-SA 2.0Cutler’s library logs 0.6 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Louise Clements Library serves Cutler’s 527 residents. Last year it lent 315 books, movies and e-books and logged 292 visits.
Cutler’s library, in brief
Louise Clements Library is used less than most libraries its size
Louise Clements Library records 0.6 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people. Borrowing is 0.6 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $1 per resident, against a typical $54. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Louise Clements Library offered 0 programs last year, 0 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
A small-town library
Louise Clements Library serves 527 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 ↓
Open only about 21 hours a week
Louise Clements Library keeps short hours: about 21 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
Runs on less money than most
Louise Clements Library spends $1 per resident, less than 99% of similar-size libraries (typical: $54). What your card is worth ↓
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 Cutler’s civic life grade
Cutler 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 →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Louise Clements Library serves 527 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Louise Clements Library
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
315 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 5,677 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Cutler last year.
Find it
Louise Clements Library, 2655 Cutler Road, Cutler.
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 $11.00 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cutler cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $454.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $4,994 worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $454 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 223 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cutler | Louise Clements Library fine-free | 0.6 | 21 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Machiasport | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Whiting | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Louise Clements Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Cutler
Does Cutler have a public library?
Yes. Louise Clements Library, 2655 Cutler Road, serves Cutler’s 527 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 21 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Louise Clements Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Cutler’s library?
It logged 0.6 visits and lent 0.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Cutler’s civic life grade?
Cutler 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 Cutler.
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.