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 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.

This table presents an overview of the number of public libraries, the number of volumes in collections, the number of volumes lent out to the public, registered users, the staff working for public libraries and their operating costs and revenues.

Data available from: 1999.

Status of the figures: The figures for 2023 are preliminary. The figures for 2022 are revised preliminary, since further research is needed in regard to the financial variables. All other figures are final.

Changes as of 12 September 2024: The revised preliminary figures for 2022 have been published. The preliminary figures for 2023 have been added.

When will new figures be published? Preliminary figures for 2024 will be published in September 2025, as well as the final figures for 2022 and 2023.

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.

Monthly statistics from the Library on Web visits, computer usage, e-media, etc.

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

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

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

This statistic displays the expenditure of academic libraries in the United Kingdom, by type, from 2001/02 to 2012/13. In the year 2011/12 academic libraries spent over 278 million British pounds on materials.

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.

Statistics by type of media in Hawaii State Public Libraries for 2011

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

This statistic displays the total public library stock of books and audio visual media in the United Kingdom from 2002/03 to 2013/14. In 2013/14, public libraries stocked 88 million books and 7.76 million AV units.

This comprehensive report provides statistical information on the operational status, resource allocation, and usage of school libraries nationwide, covering a wide range of topics, including evaluation year, library type, library name, administrative district, city/county/district, number of books in the library collection, number of librarians, number of borrowers, number of books loaned, and book budget. Detailed data on school library size, service level, material purchase status, staffing, and user activity can be utilized for educational policy development, library operation improvement, and regional comparative analysis. This resource is valuable for researchers, policymakers, and educational institution officials, enabling them to objectively understand the current state of school libraries and explore future development directions.

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.

Quantities of various media contained in Libraries

Boston Public Library locations. Shared publicly

The Integrated Library System (ILS) is composed of bibliographic records including inventoried items, and patron records including circulation data. The data is used in the daily operation of the library, including circulation, online public catalog, cataloging, acquisitions, collection development, processing, and serials control. This dataset represents the usage of inventoried items by active patrons. Per the California State Library definition, San Francisco Public Library defines active patrons as a) patrons with unexpired library cards and b) patrons who had circulation activity within the last three years.

This dataset contains statistics collected since 2016 (previous years will be added soon) as part of the Annual Survey of Quebec Public Libraries, the national source of data on libraries in Quebec. The data are those reported by library managers, to which thirty performance indicators have been added. They affect collections, users and facilities as well as staff, income and expenses.