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Please post news reports about public library statistics.  Can be national, state or local.  A short blurb/headline with the link will do!

 

IA

Library Serves South Sioux 17 Years
Sioux City Journal
While library statistics are mainly to provide fact and-or fiction for others, they are interesting in themselves. December 13, 1919 -- 25 members of the ...

 

IL

Suburban libraries go digital, add services
Chicago Daily Herald
A survey completed in 2010 by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an organization that tracks library use, found that visits to libraries ...

February 17, 2013

 

NH

For Future Reference: Far From Faltering in Digital Age, Libraries ...
Valley News
Steve Melendy, of Wilder, catches up with his email using the wireless connection ... according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services' most recent ...

February 17, 2013

 

NJ

Events at the Avalon Library
Cape May County Herald
25 from 3:30 to 4:30pm at the library. All levels of knitters are welcome. ... performance data collected by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

February 16, 2013

 

OH

Fairview Park library renovations get positive feedback
Plain Dealer
Wilkinson expounded on various library statistics during the Feb. 18 City Council meeting. “The Play, Learn and Grow Area is so popular and is very ...

April 12, 2013

 

OR

Letters: A bookish city, Metro lands levy, more tax levies, water ... 
OregonLive.com
Library statistics show that clearly. In fiscal year 2010, Multnomah County Library ranked second in the nation in the number of items checked out, ...

May 5, 2013

 

TX

Texas Cities Fare Poorly in Measure of Literacy  
 (HispanicBusiness.com) 13/02-2013

Here's one ranking Gov. Rick Perry probably won't tout as he tries to poach businesses from California: Texas cities continue to lag in an annual study of literacy rates.

...Mississippi when it comes to per capita funding for libraries, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington, D.C. In 2010,

February 13, 2013

 

FORT WORTH, Texas: Texas cities lag behind in literacy rates | National  
 (SanLuisObispo.com) 13/02-2013

FORT WORTH, Texas — Here's one ranking Gov. Rick Perry probably won't tout as he tries to poach businesses from California: Texas cities continue to lag in an annual study of literacy rates.

...Mississippi when it comes to per capita funding for libraries, according to the InstituteofMuseumandLibraryServices in Washington, D.C. In 2010, 

February 13, 2013

 

WI

Madison’s libraries are state leaders in checkouts per resident
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/d5otjqb

January 30, 3013