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Mississippi Public Library Statistics

In keeping with Mississippi law, section 39-3 107, Mississippi Code, 1972, public libraries submit annual statistics to the Mississippi Library Commission. The State Data Coordinator then reports data from the annual statistics below, as well as to the Federal State Cooperative Survey for Public Libraries at the National Center for Education Statistics.

If you have any questions regarding information about Mississippi public library statistics, please send your questions or remarks to: stats@mlc.lib.ms.us.

Annual statistical reports of Mississippi Public Libraries

1999 - 2000 Annual statistical reports

• PDF 1999 and 2000
• MS Excel 1999 (for manipulating the data)
• MS Excel 2000 (for manipulating the data)
• MS Excel 2001 (for manipulating the data)
• MS Excel 2002 (for manipulating the data)
• MS Excel 2003 (for manipulating the data)
• MS Excel 2004 (for manipulating the data)
• MS Excel 2005 (for manipulating the data)
• MS Excel 2006 (for manipulating the data)
• MS Excel 2007 (for manipulating the data)

Links:

• National Commission on Libraries and Information Science - Serves as a liaison to the library community.
• The National Center for Education Statistics - includes not only statistics on education and schools but also on libraries. At this site you will find the invaluable Public Library Peer Comparison Tool.
• The U.S. Bureau of the Census is the site for the U.S. - Census and related information regarding statistics.
• The Library Research Service - is a unit of the Colorado State Library that generates research and statistics nationally and internationally.
• ICOLC (International Coalition of Library Consortia) - has guidelines for statistical measures of usage of web-based, indexed, abstracted, and full text resources.
• HAPLR (Hennen's American Public Library Rating Index) - gives ratings of public libraries based on data from FSCS.
• Lead Agency for the State Data Center of Mississippi, the Center for Population Studies - coordinates user access to products of the Bureau of the Census.