General statistics of public libraries, by population of legal service area: 1998

Table 424.

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                                             |                       Population of legal service area
                                             |______________________________________________________________________________
                    Item                     |            |         |  10,000   | 50,000  |  100,000  | 250,000 |  500,000
                                             |   Total    |  Under  |    to     |   to    |    to     |   to    |    and
                                             |            | 10,000  |  49,999   | 99,999  |  249,999  | 499,999 |   over
_____________________________________________|____________|_________|___________|_________|___________|_________|___________
                      1                      |     2      |    3    |     4     |    5    |     6     |    7    |     8
_____________________________________________|____________|_________|___________|_________|___________|_________|___________
  Number of public library service outlets ..|     17,113 |   5,690 |     4,179 |   1,790 |     2,177 |   1,133 |     2,144
                                             |____________|_________|___________|_________|___________|_________|___________
Central libraries ...........................|      8,887 |   5,370 |     2,548 |     493 |       330 |      82 |        64
Branch libraries ............................|      7,293 |     248 |     1,317 |   1,108 |     1,662 |     980 |     1,978
Bookmobiles .................................|        933 |      72 |       314 |     189 |       185 |      71 |       102
                                             |============|=========|===========|=========|===========|=========|===========
          Collections, in thousands          |            |         |           |         |           |         |
                                             |            |         |           |         |           |         |
Books and serial volumes\1\..................|    739,168 |  97,416 |   180,593 |  88,086 |   108,978 |  73,215 |   190,880
Audio and video materials and films .........|     45,394 |   4,448 |    10,769 |   5,466 |     7,100 |   4,581 |    13,030
Serial subscriptions ........................|      1,913 |     268 |       483 |     219 |       261 |     178 |       503
                                             |============|=========|===========|=========|===========|=========|===========
    Paid staff, in full-time equivalents     |            |         |           |         |           |         |
                                             |            |         |           |         |           |         |
Librarians ..................................|     40,689 |   5,727 |    10,659 |   4,831 |     5,856 |   4,093 |     9,522
  Librarians with ALA-MLS\2\ ................|     28,178 |   1,182 |     6,639 |   3,566 |     4,642 |   3,290 |     8,859
Other staff .................................|     82,755 |   4,955 |    19,688 |  11,130 |    14,566 |   9,101 |    23,315
                                             |============|=========|===========|=========|===========|=========|===========
            Income, in thousands             |            |         |           |         |           |         |
                                             |            |         |           |         |           |         |
Total operating income ......................| $6,737,820 |$435,326 |$1,548,994 |$842,681 |$1,116,459 |$765,433 |$2,028,927
                                             |____________|_________|___________|_________|___________|_________|___________
    Source of operating income               |                Percentage distribution
                                             |______________________________________________________________________________
    Total .................................. |      100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0
  Federal\3\ ................................|        0.8 |     1.5 |       0.6 |     0.7 |       0.9 |     0.7 |       0.9
  State .....................................|       12.6 |     8.1 |      12.5 |    14.1 |      11.3 |    12.9 |      13.2
  Local .....................................|       77.6 |    70.4 |      77.4 |    76.8 |      80.9 |    79.8 |      76.5
  Other .....................................|        9.0 |    20.2 |       9.6 |     8.3 |       7.0 |     6.5 |       9.5
_____________________________________________|____________|_________|___________|_________|___________|_________|___________

\1\ Some data are different from other tables due to a different population base.
\2\ALA-MLS=A master's degree from a graduate library education program accredited by the American Library Association (ALA).
\3\Excludes some federal funds received through state library agencies.

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Totals may be underestimated due to nonresponse on item or legal service area. In three states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas), some public libraries reported data for fiscal year 1997. Most of West Virginia's data are for fiscal year 1997.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Public Libraries in the United States: FY 1998. (This table was prepared June 2001.)

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