Self-reported data from approximately 380 public libraries, First Nation public libraries and contracting organizations. The data includes:

• general information including address
• financial information
• holdings information
• staffing information
• facilities information
• activities information including typical week data
• partnership information (2011 onwards)

Data from 2011 and onwards is from a refreshed database. New fields were added for:

• provincial funding types
• project grant types
• special collections holdings
• circulation of E-resources including E-books
• lending laptops
• program types
• readers advisory transactions
• information technology support

In 2012, new fields were added for:

• E-readers
• requests for accessible format materials
• business and economic partnerships.

In 2013 more fields were added for social media visits and other professional staff.

In 2016 a field was added for indigenous language training and retention, while circulating and reference holdings information was combined.

In 2017 fields were added for e-learning services, students hired for a summer or semester, circulating wireless hot spots, and library service visits to residence-bound people.

In 2019 fields were added for Facility Rentals and Bookings, ‘Pop-up’ Libraries, Extended Services and Facilities, Government Services Partnerships, and Business and Economic Sector Partnerships.

The database uses the common name "LibStats".

The State Library of Oregon collects annual service measures, financial data, and other statistics from all legally-established public libraries in the state, as per Oregon Revised Statue 357.520 (Annual report). The data reporting period matches the state fiscal year (July 1 through June 30). This dataset includes all Oregon Public Library Statistical Report data from each year starting in FY2009-2010, and is updated annually. Reporting periods are identified as the year the report was submitted (i.e., FY2009-2010 data is identified as 2010 in the Year column).

The Public Libraries data set aggregates individual library services and finance data to the town level. Public libraries provide free borrowing privileges and services to their patrons and receive financial support from local tax funds. Public libraries may be municipal, which are established by and administrative units of local government, or association, which are not units of town government but receive some public funding. Some towns are served by more than one public library. Library visits include all persons entering a library for any purpose, including persons attending meetings or activities and persons requiring no staff assistance. Circulation counts all library materials of all formats lent out for use outside the library, including renewals. Registered borrowers are all town residents to whom a library has issued membership. Reference questions counts all interactions in which library staff provide information, knowledge, or recommendations to patrons. Town tax appropriation indicates the funds allotted to the library's operation budget from the town. The Adjusted Equalized Net Grand List per Capita (AENGLC) measures town wealth based on property tax and income per capita.

The number of digital books borrowed from libraries and schools hit *** million in 2023. E-books have historically been more popular among digital book borrowers, with *** million borrowed from the ** thousand libraries and schools included in the study in that year.

The purpose of this survey was to identify the cooperative library organizations within the United States and to gather information about these organizations. In this survey the Federal/State Cooperative System for Public Library Data collected 32 basic data items and 7 identifying items for each library. The data items include number of service outlets, full-time equivalent staff, income, operational expenditures, capital outlay, library collection, annual public service hours, library services, and inter-library loans. All 50 states and the District of Columbia are included in this file, which encompasses 8,968 libraries.

In 2019, there were around ****** in-person visits to public libraries per 100 people in the United States. In the same year, there were around ****** circulated library items per 100 people. In-person visitation peaked in 2009 with around ***** visits per 100 people. The number of circulated items peaked in 2010 with ***** circulated items per 100 people.

The Public Libraries Survey, Fiscal Year 2003 (PLS FY2003), is a study that is part of the Library Statistics program. PLS FY2003 (https://www.imls.gov/research/public_libraries_in_the_united_states_survey.aspx) is a cross-sectional study that includes information on population of legal service area, service outlets, public service hours, library materials, total circulation, circulation of children's materials, reference transactions, library visits, children's program attendance, interlibrary loans, electronic services and information, full-time-equivalent staff, operating revenue and expenditures, and capital expenditures. The study was conducted using paper surveys, web-based surveys, and email. The key respondents in this study were state library agencies. The study's response rate was 97.2 percent. The key statistics produced from PLS FY2003 were about service measures such as access to the Internet, number of users of electronic resources, number of internet terminals used by the general public, reference transactions, public service hours, interlibrary loans, circulation, library visits, children's program attendance, and circulation of children's materials. It also includes information about size of collection, staffing, operating revenue and expenditures, type of geographic service area, type of legal basis, type of administrative structure, number and type of public library service outlets, and square footage of outlets.

Categorized library statistical reports for county libraries and county co-operatives.

Annual statistical data on Public Library Services from each Queensland Council from 2010-11 financial year onwards.

This dataset includes Council level data on expenditure, collections, usage, membership, events, and services. Branch level data on facilities, opening hours, and services is also included

Additional background information can be found on the Public Library Statistics web page: http://plconnect.slq.qld.gov.au/manage/statistics

This dataset provides the monthly circulation statistics since 2013, including renewals, for all public libraries in East Baton Rouge Parish.

This dataset contains data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Academic Library Survey, which was gathered every two years from 1996 - 2014, and annually in IPEDS starting in 2014 (this dataset has continued to only merge data every two years, following the original schedule). This data was merged, transformed, and used for research by Starr Hoffman and Samantha Godbey.This data was merged using R; R scripts for this merge can be made available upon request. Some variables changed names or definitions during this time; a view of these variables over time is provided in the related Figshare Project. Carnegie Classification changed several times during this period; all Carnegie classifications were crosswalked to the 2000 classification version; that information is also provided in the related Figshare Project. This data was used for research published in several articles, conference papers, and posters starting in 2018 (some of this research used an older version of the dataset which was deposited in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's repository).SourcesAll data sources were downloaded from the National Center for Education Statistics website https://nces.ed.gov/. Individual datasets and years accessed are listed below.[dataset] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Academic Libraries component, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014), https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/login.aspx?gotoReportId=7[dataset] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) Public Use Data File, Library Statistics Program, (2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996), https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/aca_data.asp[dataset] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Institutional Characteristics component, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014), https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/login.aspx?gotoReportId=7[dataset] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fall Enrollment component, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996), https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/login.aspx?gotoReportId=7[dataset] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Human Resources component, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006), https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/login.aspx?gotoReportId=7[dataset] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Employees Assigned by Position component, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), (2004, 2002), https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/login.aspx?gotoReportId=7[dataset] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fall Staff component, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), (1999, 1997, 1995), https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/login.aspx?gotoReportId=7

The Public Libraries Survey (PLS) is an annual survey of U.S. public libraries. Policymakers and practitioners depend on PLS data to allocate funding and strategically manage libraries. Academics rely on PLS data to conduct original research about public libraries. Data in the PLS come from over 17,000 outlets, and it represents a "gold standard" for national information about public libraries. While the PLS is an invaluable resource for the public library community, other organizations collect data that extends the reach and significance of the PLS. This dataset extends the PLS using information from the Public Library Association (PLA), the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services (ABOS), and the U.S. Census Bureau. PLA data comes from Project Outcome, a free toolkit and online resource for public libraries to document the outcomes associated with public library services. Since 2015, Project Outcome has collected more than 390,000 responses to surveys at 2,200+ libraries in the U.S. and Canada describing the outcomes resulting from library services. The standardized surveys used by Project Outcome have enabled libraries to aggregate their outcome data and analyze trends by topic, type, and program. ABOS data comes from a 2023 national, non-representative survey of public libraries regarding their outreach departments, services, and vehicles. Census data is from the American Community Survey and provides demographic information regarding the geographies that public libraries serve. As part of an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research curated these data for reuse and mapped them to libraries in the PLS. The result is a combined dataset that documents the impact of library programming and outreach on nationwide communities. To enhance these data, a committee led by the University of Missouri, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies identified supplemental variables (e.g., Census demographic figures) and guided data curation by creating a "data module" specifying curation enhancements.

The German Library Statistics (DBS) is the national statistics of the German library system and contains statistical key figures. It includes public libraries, scientific libraries, as well as specialized scientific libraries. More information can be found at DBS. This dataset contains the following information about public libraries in Bavaria in 2009: Media as a whole - inventory, media as a whole - rentals, media in open access or 'direct access' as a whole. - Inventory, media in free-hand position or in 'direct access' in total. - Borrowings, stock of magazines - Print media and non-book media in physical units, total print media - Stock, total print media - Borrowings, ... of which: Non-fiction - Stock, ... of which: Non-fiction - loans, ... of which: Fiction - Stock, ... of which: Fiction - borrowings, ... of which: Children's and Youth Literature - Collection, ... of which: Children's and young people's literature - borrowings, ... of which: Journals in print - inventory, ... of which: Journals in print - Borrowings, non-book media as a whole - Stock, non-book media as a whole - Borrowings, ... of which: Analogue and digital media - inventory, ... of which: Analogue and digital media - borrowings, ... of which: Other non-book media (e.g. games) - inventory, ... of which: Andere Non-Book-Medien (z.B. Spiele) - Entleihungen, Virtueller Bestand - Bestand, Virtueller Bestand - Entleihungen, Zugang an Medieneinheiten, Abgang an Medieneinheiten, Datenbanken, Laufende Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenabos in Printform, Laufende Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenabos in elektronischer Form, Empfangene Austausch-/Blockbestände, Verliehene Austausch-/Blockbestände, Bestellungen im nehmenden (passiven) Leihverkehr, Bestellungen im gebenden (aktiven) Leihverkehr, Dokumentlieferungen an den Endnutzer

Data submitted to the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) reporting on Mount Royal University Library's collections, services, and staff.

From 2005 to 2019, the share of visitors in public libraries in England decreased overall. Especially, the percentage of male respondents claiming to have visited a public library in the year previous to the survey dropped significantly, passing from 43.8 percent in 2005 to 26 percent in 2019.

The German Library Statistics (DBS) is the national statistics of the German library system and contains statistical key figures. It includes public libraries, scientific libraries, as well as specialized scientific libraries. More information can be found at DBS. This dataset contains the following information about public libraries in Bavaria 2012: Research (requests for information), total user workplaces, ... including: Computer workstations including OPACs and Internet terminals, ... ... of which: Internet terminals, library homepage, Internet services: WEB-OPAC / Internet catalogue, ... interactive functions, ... Socialweb / Web 2.0 offers, ... Information service by e-mail, ... Virtual collections, ... Active information services, ... W-LAN offer, social library work, events, guided tours, exhibitions in total, ... of which: Introductions to library use, ... of which: for children and adolescents, ... of which: for adults, ... of which: Exhibitions, ... of which: Other, School library services, Management of administrative libraries, Other contractual services

The Chicago Public Library consists of the Harold Washington Library Center, Sulzer, Legler and Woodson regional libraries and over 70 neighborhood branches. Chicago Public Library consists of the Harold Washington Library Center, Sulzer and Woodson regional libraries and over 70 neighborhood branches. Many locations experience sporadic closures to perform facilities upgrade or emergency closures due to heating or air conditioning issues, or area power outages.

• Count does not reflect the total building visitor count due to location of traffic counter. Community room and program traffic are not included in totals.

This statistic shows the level of importance of libraries including children's and YA books with diverse points of view according to librarians in North America as of ********. The findings show that the vast majority of responding librarians in the United States and Canada said that they believed it was very important to have a library book collection with diverse points of view for children and teenagers.

Quantities of various media contained in Libraries

The German Library Statistics (DBS) is the national statistics of the German library system and contains statistical key figures. It includes public libraries, scientific libraries, as well as specialized scientific libraries. More information can be found at DBS. This dataset contains the following information about public libraries in Bavaria in 2014: Number of inhabitants of the library location, number of libraries (institutions), ... of which: Branches (number), ... of which: Driving libraries (number), number of external service stations, public area (m2), annual opening hours, weekly opening hours