National Contacts
| Federal Agency Staff | Library Association Research Staff | Library Research Organizations |
Federal Agency Staff
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
- Associate Deputy Director for Research and Statistics - Position not currently filled.
Statistician/Analyst - Position not currently filled. - National Center For Education Statistics (NCES) Library Statistics Program
- Academic Library Statistics, Barbara Holton
School Library Media Statistics, Barbara Holton - National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS)
- NCES Special Assistant - Technical, Kim Miller
Library Association Research Staff
- American Library Association (ALA) - academic, public, & school
- Office for Research and Statistics, Denise Davis
- Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) - academic
- Hugh Thompson
- Association of Research Libraries (ARL) - academic
- Statistics and Service Quality Programs, Martha Kyrillidou
Library Research Organizations
- American Library Association Office for Research and Statistics
- Association for Research Libraries Statistics and Measurement Program
- Benton Foundation
- Publications related to demonstrating the value of communications for solving social problems. Library related papers include:
Building, books, and bytes: Libraries and Communities in the Digital Age
Local Places, Global Connections: Libraries in the Digital Age
Benton Foundation - Virtual Library: resources you can use - Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL)
- Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
- Federal-State Cooperative System for Public Library Data (FSCS)
- GeoLib
- GeoLib is a research program of the Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center (FREAC), which is within the Institute of Science and Public Affairs (ISPA) at The Florida State University (FSU).
- Information Use Management & Policy Institute
- The Information Institute at Florida State University conducts research that focuses on the information user and the user's interaction with information products, services, policies, technologies, and organizations
- Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
- The Institute for Museum and Library Services provides programs of support for libraries and museums and encourages partnerships between museums and libraries. Application guidelines for National Leadership Grants are available on the site.
- Library Research Center (LRC) - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS)
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Office of Research
- Urban Libraries Council (ULC)
- Fast Facts Surveys
Last Modified: Feb 15, 2008
