Southwest Harbor Public Library

Youth services: an important part of the library is the areas devoted to children and young adults. Youth services circulated 17,448 physical volumes to borrowers. The library sponsored 211 programs to babies, toddlers, and young school-age children with over 5,000 attendees. The library has robust summer offerings with a summer reading program with 248 children participants.

Virtual and special services: the library's website was viewed almost 70,000 times. High-speed wi-fi is available 24/7 and was accessed in 31,000 sessions. Patrons downloaded over 18,000 ebooks, audiobooks, videos and magazines. The library's digital archive is an innovative database with over 40,000 local items of interest including the library's historic photograph collection, documents, and other artifacts through a visual record and is accessed by local and international researchers.