Table 426.

Public libraries, books and serial volumes, library visits, circulation, and reference transactions, by state: Fiscal year 2005

State	Number of public libraries		Number of books and serial volumes (in thousands)	Number of books and serial volumes per capita	Library visits per capita1	Circulation per capita	Public library reference transactions per capita2
1	2		3	4	5	6	7
United States	9,198	3	815,605	2.8	4.7	7.2	1.1
Alabama	207		9,424	2.1	3.2	4.1	0.8
Alaska	89		2,332	3.5	5.2	6.1	0.6
Arizona	86		10,170	1.8	4.0	7.3	0.9
Arkansas	48		5,965	2.3	3.2	4.4	0.7
California	179		79,438	2.2	4.1	5.4	0.9
Colorado	115		11,647	2.6	6.2	11.0	1.3
Connecticut	194		15,005	4.3	6.4	9.0	1.3
Delaware	21		1,696	2.2	5.0	6.9	0.7
District of Columbia	1		2,264	4.1	3.4	2.1	2.1
Florida	78		33,365	1.9	4.1	5.5	1.4
Georgia	58		14,978	1.7	3.7	4.8	1.0
Hawaii	1		3,179	2.5	4.4	5.1	0.7
Idaho	104		3,924	3.2	6.0	8.3	0.6
Illinois	623		41,849	3.7	5.8	8.6	1.5
Indiana	239		24,461	4.3	6.9	12.2	1.0
Iowa	540		12,117	4.1	5.8	9.4	0.6
Kansas	325		10,991	4.8	6.4	10.9	1.2
Kentucky	116		8,483	2.1	4.0	6.0	0.7
Louisiana	67		11,096	2.5	3.1	3.9	0.9
Maine	272		6,365	5.4	5.7	7.5	0.8
Maryland	24		14,521	2.6	5.0	9.4	1.3
Massachusetts	370		31,910	5.0	5.9	7.8	0.8
Michigan	383		33,419	3.4	4.8	6.6	0.9
Minnesota	140		16,152	3.1	5.2	9.9	0.9
Mississippi	50		5,621	1.9	2.9	3.2	0.6
Missouri	149		18,576	3.6	5.0	8.9	1.1
Montana	79		2,760	3.1	4.1	6.2	0.5
Nebraska	270		6,594	4.7	6.5	10.1	0.8
Nevada	22		4,105	1.6	4.1	6.2	0.7
New Hampshire	230		6,052	4.6	4.9	7.7	0.7
New Jersey	306		31,362	3.8	5.4	6.4	0.9
New Mexico	87		4,339	3.0	4.6	6.5	0.9
New York	754		73,757	3.9	5.7	7.5	1.4
North Carolina	75		16,304	1.9	4.0	5.5	1.2
North Dakota	83		2,341	4.2	4.8	7.4	0.7
Ohio	251		47,878	4.2	7.2	15.0	1.6
Oklahoma	113		6,933	2.4	4.6	6.9	0.8
Oregon	125		9,240	2.8	6.2	14.9	0.9
Pennsylvania	458		29,520	2.5	3.6	5.3	0.7
Rhode Island	49		4,357	4.0	5.9	6.8	0.9
South Carolina	42		8,901	2.1	3.6	5.0	1.1
South Dakota	124		3,206	5.3	6.2	9.1	0.9
Tennessee	186		10,955	1.9	3.2	4.1	0.8
Texas	553		44,865	2.1	3.3	4.8	1.1
Utah	71		6,334	2.7	6.9	12.9	1.7
Vermont	184		2,808	4.7	5.7	7.3	0.9
Virginia	91		19,244	2.6	4.6	8.5	1.0
Washington	65		17,769	2.9	7.0	11.1	1.1
West Virginia	97		4,938	2.7	3.3	4.3	0.6
Wisconsin	381		19,696	3.5	6.0	10.3	0.9
Wyoming	23		2,399	4.8	6.2	9.1	1.1

1 The total number of persons entering the library for any purpose during the year. 2 A reference transaction is an information contact that involves the knowledge, use, recommen­dations, interpretation, or instructions in the use of one or more information sources by a mem­ber of the library staff. 3 Consists of 7,433 single-outlet libraries and 1,765 multiple-outlet libraries. Some single-outlet libraries are bookmobiles, and some multiple-outlet libraries consist of or include bookmobiles. NOTE: Data include imputations for nonresponse. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Public Libraries Survey (PLS), fiscal year 2005, Public Libraries in the United States: Fiscal Year 2004. (This table was prepared May 2008.)