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The Library Research Service generates library statistics and research for library and education professionals, public officials, and the media. LRS reports and analyzes statistics on school, public, and academic libraries, and conducts studies on major library issues that are reported in the Fast Facts and Closer Look series. Topics of continuing interest to the LRS and its clients are the impact of school librarians on student achievement and the changing library workforce.

What's New

IMLS Publishes 2007 Public Libraries Survey Report (6/30/2009): From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has issued the 2007 Public Libraries Survey (PLS) report which includes information on ...more
Colorado Libraries Return on Investment (6/12/2009): Ever wonder how a return on taxpayer investment in public libraries can be quantified? Our latest Fast Facts, Colorado Library Return on Investment: 5 to 1, discusses how the Library ...more
U.S. Library Data Archive Now Hosted on LRS.org (6/1/2009): Bob Molyneux, former director of statistics and surveys at the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), has assembled a large number of digital versions of publications ...more
Restorative Librarianship in the Colorado Department of Corrections (5/29/2009): Interested in the work prison librarians are doing? Check out our new Fast Facts Restorative Librarianship in the Colorado ...more

Public Library Annual Report

The 2008 Public Library Annual Report (survey) has closed. Preliminary data is now available from our Public Library Statisics page.

School Library Survey 2008-09

The 2008-09 School Library Survey is now closed. Thanks to the 831 participants.

Preliminary results are available on our school stats pages.

60-Second Responses

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Detail

Recent FAST FACTS

Colorado Libraries Return on Investment: 5 to 1 (06/10/2009)
Out for Life; Restorative Librarianship In the Colorado Department of Corrections (05/28/2009)
What I Learned About the Value of an MLIS Degree: An LIS Student's Perspective (04/20/2009)
In Your Own Words: The Value of an MLIS (04/20/2009)

Latest CLOSER LOOK Reports

Latest QUOTABLE FACTS Mini-Brochures


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