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United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics, « Public Libraries Data, 1989: [United States] », Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, ID : 10.3886/ICPSR09596.v1
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.