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PDF pending restorationShurden, Lynn F., Comp. – 1999
The Mississippi Library Commission, which acquires and publishes usage data from each of the 46 public library systems and two independent public libraries in the state, reports the data presented in this publication to the Federal State Cooperative System (FSCS) for Public Library Data. First, a 2-year summary (1997-1998) for public library…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Expenditures, Library Funding, Library Statistics
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
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1995
The Public Libraries Survey (PLS) is conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) through the Federal-State Cooperative System for Public Library Data (FSCS). The 1993 fiscal year survey file includes 8,929 public libraries in the 50 states and the District of Columbia identified by state library agencies. A total of…
Descriptors: Floppy Disks, Library Statistics, Library Surveys, National Surveys
Peer reviewedLiu, Yan Quan; Zweizig, Douglas L. – Library Quarterly, 2001
A survey was conducted to investigate public library directors' use of the Federal-State Cooperative System for Public Library Data and the Public Library Data Service reports. This article highlights the uses directors made of statistics and the aspects of statistics that they found particularly useful. (Contains 51 references.) (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Information Services, Library Administration, Library Administrators, Library Directors
PDF pending restorationLance, Keith Curry – 1995
This package of statistics on Colorado's school library media centers (LMCs) is the product of the Survey of School Library Media Centers in Colorado 1994. There are three major components to this profile: (1) a 210-page complete tabulation of the survey's results, arranged by school level and enrollment range; (2) a set of tables reporting…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Research, Library Statistics
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1996
The annual State Library Agencies (STLA) Survey is a cooperative effort between the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The survey provides state and federal policy-makers, researchers, and other…
Descriptors: Information Services, Libraries, Library Networks, Library Statistics
PDF pending restorationBank, Jay, Comp. – 1999
This report contains statistical information on Kentucky public libraries for fiscal year 1997-1998 taken from the Annual Report of Public Libraries. The report is separated into seven sections: summary of library statistics for the most recent year (1998) and comparisons with the three prior years; graphs showing statistical trends in library…
Descriptors: Library Automation, Library Circulation, Library Collection Development, Library Expenditures
Download full textTexas State Library and Archives Commission, Austin. – 2000
The Texas Public Library Summary for 1999 contains summaries of the information submitted by Texas public libraries in the 1999 Annual Report/System Membership Application Form (ARSMA) and reported in detail in the Texas Public Library Statistics for 1999. The Summary provides an overview of Texas public library income, expenditures, services, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Library Expenditures, Library Funding, Library Personnel
Kroe, Elaine – 1998
The State Library Agencies (STLA) Survey is conducted annually and is the product of a cooperative effort between the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The Survey provides state and federal…
Descriptors: Information Services, Libraries, Library Networks, Library Services
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1997
The annual State Library Agencies (STLA) Survey is a cooperative effort between the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The survey provides state and federal policy-makers, researchers, and other…
Descriptors: Information Services, Libraries, Library Networks, Library Services
PDF pending restorationArizona State Dept. of Library, Archives and Public Records, Phoenix. – 1998
This document is a compilation of information supplied by Arizona public libraries. Data is arranged by a separate index divider for each of these county groups: Apache, Cochise, and Coconino; Gila, Graham, Greenlee, and La Paz; Maricopa and Mohave; Navajo, Pima, and Pinal; and Santa Cruz, Yavapai, and Yuma. Each section contains tables of the…
Descriptors: Library Collections, Library Expenditures, Library Funding, Library Personnel
Fairbanks, Gretchen, Comp. – 1996
The purpose of this report is to provide a record of the development of the State of Louisiana's public libraries, to create an evaluation tool that is useful to local library administrators and trustees. With one exception, "Public Libraries in Louisiana: Statistical Report, 1996" is a summation of the annual reports submitted to the…
Descriptors: Directories, Library Circulation, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
Kenney, Anne R.; Stam, Deirdre C. – 2002
With funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the Council on Library and Information Resources, ARL (Association of Research Libraries), the University Libraries Group, and the Regional Alliance for Preservation conducted a joint study in 2001 to examine the state of preservation programs in American academic libraries. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Luther, Judy – 2000
This paper provides a snapshot of developments in the electronic journal industry. The first section identifies issues affecting librarians and publishers, including: (1) issues of common concern to both publishers and librarians, e.g., lack of comparable data, lack of context, incomplete usage data, marketing, content provided, interface…
Descriptors: Electronic Journals, Guidelines, Information Utilization, Interviews
Atkins, David; Beile, Penny – 1995
This report is the unofficial, pre-publication summary of Louisiana 1994 IPEDS (Integrated Post-secondary Education Data System) academic library statistics forms. The primary impetus for this publication is to provide Louisiana academic library directors a timely and more user-friendly presentation of IPEDS statistics. Libraries are grouped…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Collections, Library Expenditures
