The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) performs an annual survey on public libraries. They released the fiscal-year 2003 data for “restricted use” on June 10.
Two organizations are cooperating to publish some preliminary state rankings based on that data. The Normative Data Project for Libraries (NDP) performed the analysis with the help of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS).
The list of tables includes rankings by “Library Visits per Capita”, “Interlibrary Loans per 1,000 Population”, “Total Paid FTE Staff per 25,000 Population” and many others, as well as analysis of certain trends. If you want to do some stats-wrangling of your own, all of the data from 1992-2003 are available in a large longitudinal data file from NCLIS.
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