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                                                  |                       Population of legal service area
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                       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
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  Number of public library service outlets .......|     16,896 |   5,762 |     4,128 |   1,785 |   2,086 |   1,108 |     2,027
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Central libraries ................................|      8,876 |   5,420 |     2,496 |     493 |     321 |      76 |        70
Branch libraries .................................|      7,024 |     264 |     1,282 |   1,087 |   1,581 |     957 |     1,853
Bookmobiles ......................................|        996 |      78 |       350 |     205 |     184 |      75 |       104
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            Collections, in thousands             |            |         |           |         |         |         |
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Books and serial volumes\1\...................... |    671,742 |  92,889 |   165,318 |  81,072 |  96,947 |  69,508 |   166,008
Audio and video materials and films ..............|     32,835 |   3,125 |     7,752 |   4,038 |   5,004 |   2,950 |     9,966
Serial subscriptions .............................|      1,772 |     265 |       462 |     209 |     232 |     154 |       450
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       Paid staff, in full-time equivalents       |            |         |           |         |         |         |
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Librarians ...................................... |     38,045 |   5,514 |     9,655 |   4,606 |   5,405 |   3,763 |     9,104
  Librarians with ALA-MLS\2\ .................... |     25,878 |   1,048 |     5,848 |   3,304 |   4,223 |   3,120 |     8,335
Other staff ......................................|     74,739 |   4,909 |    17,961 |  10,015 |  12,800 |   8,300 |    20,753
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               Income, in thousands               |            |         |           |         |         |         |
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Total operating income ...........................| $5,260,086 |$354,252 |$1,202,080 |$658,202 |$843,131 |$605,998 |$1,596,423
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    Source of operating income                    |                Percentage distribution
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    Total ..................................      |      100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |   100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0
  Federal\3\ .....................................|        1.1 |     1.4 |       0.8 |     0.9 |     1.1 |     1.1 |       1.3
  State .......................................   |       12.3 |     9.4 |      10.9 |    14.0 |     9.7 |    10.7 |      15.3
  Local ..................................        |       78.2 |    74.3 |      79.7 |    77.9 |    82.3 |    82.6 |      74.2
  Other ......................................    |        8.4 |    14.9 |       8.6 |     7.3 |     6.9 |     5.6 |       9.2
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Public Libraries in the United States: 1994. (This table was prepared March 1997.)