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Fox, Bette-Lee; Cassin, Erin – Library Journal, 1996
A number of library projects show the cost-effectiveness of sharing space in buildings. Six tables provide statistics for new academic and public library buildings; additions and renovations; renovations only; and a six-year cost summary. Photographs of library interiors and exteriors illustrate the article. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Building Conversion, Construction Programs, Cost Effectiveness
French, Joe; Collins, Lesley; Vittitow, Susan – 1999
This report includes data furnished by public library directors to the Wyoming State Library and gives a statistical picture of the condition of public libraries throughout the state for fiscal year 1998 (July 1997 through June 1998). Information is taken from a national survey of the Federal-State Cooperative System for Public Library Data.…
Descriptors: Branch Libraries, Library Collections, Library Development, Library Expenditures
Greene, Deborah L. – 1991
A study was undertaken to document the impact of reductions in state appropriations on the libraries of Texas public institutions of higher education from Fiscal Year 1986 through Fiscal Year 1990 and to make recommendations for improving these libraries. Data were collected through a letter requesting information from each of the public general…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Law Libraries
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1996
This report summarizes the activities of the South Carolina State Library for 1995-1996. Sections include: (1) library governance and mission statement; (2) brief library history; (3) details about the organization and operations of the library, including a description of each of six departments with a list of employees and their duties, an…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Higher Education, Library Acquisition, Library Administration

Krefman, Naomi, Comp.; Dwyer, Molly, Comp.; Krueger, Beth, Comp. – 1999
This statistical report on Michigan's libraries presents data provided by academic libraries, public libraries, public library cooperatives, and those public libraries that that serve as regional or subregional outlets to provide services for blind and physically handicapped patrons. For academic libraries, data are compiled from the 1998 academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Internet

California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 2001
This study, the first of its kind, examines the ability of the California Community College System to provide its students and faculty with Library and Learning Resources Programs and Services that are sufficient in quality, depth, and diversity to support each college's educational programs. The study covers a 7-year period from 1988-1989 through…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Information Services, Librarians, Libraries
Cepeda, Rita; Norman, Carolyn F. – 1992
The status of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Library and Learning Resources Program (LLRP) is described in this report, which reviews a systemwide survey of the LLRP completed in the 1988-89 academic year; and provides a national and statewide context for ongoing discussions of the relationship between the LLRP and the CCC Board of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Learning Resources Centers, Library Development
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1909
Since the organization of the United States Bureau of Education in 1867 statistics of public libraries have appeared periodically in the annual reports. It has been the purpose to gather such statistics every five years, but it has not been possible to carry out the plan with perfect regularity. For forty years every annual report of the bureau…
Descriptors: Educational History, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys, Questionnaires
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1998
This report summarizes the activities of the South Carolina State Library for 1997-1998. Sections include: (1) library governance and mission statement; (2) brief library history; (3) details about the organization and operations of the library, including a description of each of the six departments, an organizational chart, a list of library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Grants, Institutional Libraries, Library Administration
Quality Education Data, Inc., Denver, CO. – 1996
District library media directors face dual demands including competition for limited educational dollars and the need to meet increasingly sophisticated student research requests. To solve these dilemmas, many districts are automating their schools' library media centers. Quality Education Data (QED) is an education research firm providing…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
As part of its function of providing information about all kinds of educational activities, the Bureau of Education, beginning with its report for 1870, has periodically collected and published statistics of public, society, and school libraries, recently at intervals of about five years. This bulletin is comprised of statistics gathered from the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Public Libraries, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys
Ettelt, Harold – 1986
Columbia-Greene Community College (Hudson, New York) takes a yearly 10% statistical sample of its entire circulating collection, noting the call number, acquisition year, and circulation record of each book, in order to determine the pattern of book use over the preceding 2.5 years, and to facilitate the development of an acquisition pattern that…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Circulation, Library Collection Development, Longitudinal Studies
Austin Community Coll., TX. – 1991
Austin Community College's Learning Resource Services (LRS) is made up of the Learning Resource Centers (LRC's) which house library, media, and computer-based instruction departments; LRS Technical services; and the LRS Telecommunications Center. LRS operations are offered at 10 different sites including full-service campus LRC's, limited-service…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Annual Reports, Audiovisual Centers, Budgets
Center for Education Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1987
Information on library networks that was included in a survey conducted by the Center for Education Statistics--the "Survey of Library Networks and Cooperative Library Organizations: 1985-1986"--indicates that there were 760 library networks at that time, with aggregate library membership estimated to be 76,280. Over three-fourths of the networks…
Descriptors: Consortia, Continuing Education, Interlibrary Loans, Library Collection Development

Bank, 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