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Table 422. General statistics of public libraries, by population of legal service area: 2000

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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 ..|     17,182 |   5,749 |     4,205 |   1,790 |     2,140 |   1,108 |     2,190
                                             |____________|_________|___________|_________|___________|_________|___________
Central libraries ...........................|      8,915 |   5,423 |     2,582 |     499 |       281 |      73 |        57
Branch libraries ............................|      7,383 |     255 |     1,326 |   1,113 |     1,693 |     964 |     2,032
Bookmobiles .................................|        884 |      71 |       297 |     178 |       166 |      71 |       101
                                             |============|=========|===========|=========|===========|=========|===========
          Collections, in thousands          |            |         |           |         |           |         |
                                             |            |         |           |         |           |         |
Books and serial volumes\1\..................|    760,513 |  99,639 |   185,480 |  91,633 |   112,461 |  75,126 |   196,173
Audio and video materials and films .........|     54,021 |   5,456 |    13,020 |   6,662 |     8,241 |   5,184 |    15,458
Serial subscriptions ........................|      1,944 |     276 |       487 |     209 |       254 |     193 |       523
                                             |============|=========|===========|=========|===========|=========|===========
    Paid staff, in full-time equivalents     |            |         |           |         |           |         |
                                             |            |         |           |         |           |         |
Librarians ..................................|     43,118 |   6,016 |    11,317 |   5,156 |     6,018 |   4,195 |    10,416
  Librarians with ALA-MLS\2\ ................|     29,519 |   1,221 |     6,904 |   3,761 |     4,858 |   3,441 |     9,334
Other staff .................................|     86,984 |   5,479 |    20,404 |  11,770 |    15,787 |   9,492 |    24,053
                                             |============|=========|===========|=========|===========|=========|===========
            Income, in thousands             |            |         |           |         |           |         |
                                             |            |         |           |         |           |         |
Total operating income ......................|  $7,702,768| $499,840| $1,744,932| $967,817| $1,246,162| $858,994| $2,385,022
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    Source of operating income               |                Percentage distribution
                                             |______________________________________________________________________________
    Total ...................................|      100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0
  Federal\3\ ................................|        0.7 |     1.5 |       0.6 |     0.6 |       0.7 |     0.6 |       0.9
  State .....................................|       12.8 |     7.8 |      12.3 |    15.2 |      11.6 |    13.0 |      13.3
  Local .....................................|       77.1 |    69.3 |      77.4 |    76.0 |      80.2 |    79.0 |      75.9
  Other and private .........................|        9.4 |    21.4 |       9.8 |     8.2 |       7.5 |     7.4 |      10.0
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\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. Data include imputations for nonresponse.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Public Libraries in the United States: FY 2000. (This table was prepared August 2002.)


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