2008 Public Library Data Posted
After many months of hard work by public library staff (and LRS, too), the preliminary data from the 2008 Public Library Annual Report (PLAR) is available on LRS.org.
LRS-i has customizable statistics reports at: http://www.lrs.org/public/stats.php?year=2008
Standardized reports, including input/output measures, state totals, averages, and ratios, are available at: http://www.lrs.org/public/cannedstats.php?year=2008
The final PLAR data for Colorado will be available this summer. Before the data is considered "final" it will go through a second round of edit checks. Working with the U.S. Census, I will put the data through the Federal software to verify it and, with help from the field, make corrections where necessary. Typically the data does not change substantially during this process; however, if it does change we will update the LRS.org database and reports.
Also of note, IMLS just published the 2007 national public library data files. See: http://harvester.census.gov/imls/data/pls/index.asp
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~ Nicolle
steffen_n@cde.state.co.us
