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<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><br>
<span class="date">March 12, 2014</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">IMLS Press Contact</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><br>
202-653-4799<br>
Giuliana Bullard, <a href="mailto:gbullard@imls.gov"><span style="color:#0D6573">gbullard@imls.gov</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="midboldbrown"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Preview of FY 2011 Public Libraries Survey Available</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="copy"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Washington, DC</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">—The Institute of Museum and Library Services has
made available a preview of the <a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=1&d=73&mid=334267&m=1985">
<span style="color:#0D6573">Fiscal Year 2011 Public Libraries in the United States Survey</span></a>. Now in its twenty-fourth year, the Public Library Survey gathers data from more than 98 percent of public libraries across the country.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">In FY 2011, there were 8,956 public libraries in the United States, which served 299.9 million people or 95.3 percent of the U.S. population. Additional highlights follow.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Visits and Program Attendance</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">There were 1.53 billion in-person visits to public libraries, the equivalent to more than 4.2 million visits each day (not including virtual visits).</span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Attendance at public library programs increased for the eighth year with 89 million people attending 3.81 million programs.</span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Books and Collections</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Public libraries circulated 2.44 billion materials, or 8.1 items circulated per person.</span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">While books continue to comprise the majority of the nation’s public library collection holdings, collections are shifting from print books to non-print
and digital materials.</span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Public Access Computers</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">There were 261,413 public access Internet computers available at U.S. public libraries</span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">There were 341.5 million usage sessions on public access Internet computers at public libraries.</span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Financial Health
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">More than $11.4 billion was invested in public libraries.</span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">Public libraries spent $10.7 billion in operating expenditures.</span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">A high-level overview of the FY 2011 data, supplementary tables, and information by state are available on IMLS website.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=2&d=73&mid=334267&m=1985"><span style="color:#0D6573">Fact Sheet</span></a></span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=3&d=73&mid=334267&m=1985"><span style="color:#0D6573">Supplementary Tables</span></a></span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=4&d=73&mid=334267&m=1985"><span style="color:#0D6573">State Profiles</span></a></span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47"><a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=5&d=73&mid=334267&m=1985"><span style="color:#0D6573">Data files</span></a></span><span style="color:#5D4C47"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5D4C47">A report of the FY 2011 data and findings will be posted on the
<a href="http://www.idevmail.net/link.aspx?l=6&d=73&mid=334267&m=1985"><span style="color:#0D6573">research pages of the IMLS website</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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