Broad Brook Library, serving an area of 10,000 residents in
Hartford County, has a collection of 36,000 books and periodicals; in addition, there are 1,200 CDs, records, cassettes and other audio materials, as well as 1,200 video items, such as DVDs and VHS tapes.
Staffing consists of one employee, plus volunteers. Annual expenditures on the library collection total $42,000. Patrons make 40,000 visits annually, and check out materials 80,000 times. Thirty-three percent of all check-outs are children's materials.
