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Brooklyn Public Library, NY.
The Brooklyn Public Library presents information concerning its organization, goals, expenditures, utilization, services, special programs, and holdings each year in an annual report to the Mayor and City Council of New York. This collection of five reports covers the activities of the library in the fiscal years beginning in 1972, 1973, 1974,…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Library Expenditures, Library Services, Public Libraries
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Sullivan, Edward T. – Public Libraries, 2001
Discusses problems that adolescents deal with and examines the prejudices and lack of services that adolescents encounter in public libraries, including a lack of specialized staff, no separate space, no outreach programs, and disproportionate budget allocations. Emphasizes the need that adolescents have for adult relationships that public…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Library Expenditures, Library Personnel
Oder, Norman – Library Journal, 2002
Examines public library budgets by the population size served. Discusses total budgets, salary budgets, and materials budgets; funding and technology, including e-rate for Internet access and Internet filtering; and fundraising. (LRW)
Descriptors: Budgets, Fund Raising, Internet, Library Expenditures
Bourne, Tom – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1981
Discusses the services of the San Francisco Public Library with respect to the effects of Proposition 13 and inflation, and describes the roles of the Main Library, the Business Branch, the Chinatown Branch, and the Communications Center. (CHC)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Branch Libraries, Library Expenditures, Library Facilities
Eisenberg, Mike; Repman, Judi – Technology Connection, 1997
Discusses the Hawaii State Public Library system decision to outsource library book selection to a vendor. Highlights include problems with the current contract, including lack of input from local librarians; and possible benefits of outsourcing, including the chance of having an outsourced baseline collection with discretionary funds for local…
Descriptors: Library Acquisition, Library Collection Development, Library Expenditures, Library Material Selection
Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1986
Designed to provide librarians, library administrators, and other interested persons with information organized to facilitate comparisons of libraries within the same library system, with comparable service populations, and with comparable expenditures, this publication contains information derived from the 1985 Annual Report/System Membership…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Library Expenditures, Library Statistics, Public Libraries
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Dixon, Joyce K. – Public Libraries, 2002
Discusses the need for public libraries to improve their collections for and services to beginning readers. Suggests that public libraries should reconfigure their children's departments and budgets based on the three stages to reading fluency, of which level two is the learning to read years that includes beginning readers. (LRW)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Libraries, Library Collection Development, Library Expenditures
St. Lifer, Evan – Library Journal, 1998
Presents Library Journal's 1998 Budget Report, including the cost of linking to the Net; cost of Net maintenance; fund raising for fiscal years 1992, 1996, and 1997; projected budget changes from 1997 to 1998 and provides changes in budgets for 63 public libraries serving rural, suburban, and urban areas. (PEN)
Descriptors: Costs, Financial Support, Fund Raising, Information Technology
Bromann, Jennifer – School Library Journal, 2002
Describes the weeding process for children's magazines in a public library. Highlights include circulation statistics; cost effectiveness; online availability; shelving magazines by subject to try and increase their use; and a chart that lists reasons to keep and reasons to cancel subscriptions when weeding a periodical collection. (LRW)
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Childrens Literature, Cost Effectiveness, Electronic Journals
St. Lifer, Evan – Library Journal, 1999
Presents the annual budget report for public libraries for 1999, including budget projections; local taxes; rise of technology budgets; materials, salary, and operating budgets; per capita funding; fundraising; net costs; and the role of the Gates Library Foundation. (LRW)
Descriptors: Budgets, Costs, Fund Raising, Library Expenditures
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Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1994
This volume is the first annual Texas Public Library Summary Statistics. It contains information as submitted by local public libraries on their 1993 Annual Report forms. The contents include: analytical tables; population served by Texas public libraries; number of Texas public libraries; how Texas compares per capita; percentage of expenditures;…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Expenditures, Library Funding, Library Services
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Texas State Library, Austin. Library Development Div. – 1995
This volume is the second annual Texas Public Library Summary. It contains information as submitted by local public libraries on their 1994 Annual Report forms. The contents include: analytical tables; statistical summary overview; operating and materials expenditures adjusted for inflation; Texas library per capita data compared to U.S. averages;…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Expenditures, Library Funding, Library Services
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Texas State Library, Austin. Library Development Div. – 1996
This volume is the third annual Texas Public Library Summary. It contains information as submitted by local public libraries on their 1995 Annual Report forms. The contents include: analytical tables; statistical summary overview; income and percent of population served by type of library; operating expenditures adjusted for inflation; materials…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Expenditures, Library Funding, Library Services
Fork, Donald J. – 1985
This report summarizes public library construction activities supported by Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), Title II, funds as of fiscal 1985. Following a brief legislative background and overview, the use of federal funds in support of public library construction is reviewed, and the impact of LSCA funding during fiscal 1983-85 is…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Construction Programs, Data Analysis, Federal Aid
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Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. – 1986
Based on a survey conducted by the Center for Statistics (CS), statistical information on public libraries is presented for fiscal year 1982-83. An Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) Historical Report provides statistical data on the following aspects of public libraries in Fall 1982: (1) outlets; (2) staff; (3) receipts; (4)…
Descriptors: Computers, Income, Interlibrary Loans, Library Collections
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