New Data Alert: Public Libraries in the United States Survey, 2016-2018
The National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC), a data repository funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), is pleased to announce the release of the Public Libraries in the United States Survey, 2016-2018
The public-use data and documentation files are freely available for download and online analysis on NADAC and include data from 2016, 2017, and 2018 Public Libraries Surveys. The surveys have been conducted by the Institute of Museum and Library Services from approximately 9,000 public libraries with approximately 17,000 individual public library outlets in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and outlying territories. The collected data include information about library visits, circulation, size of collections, public service hours, staffing, electronic resources, operating revenues and expenditures and number of service outlets.
About NADAC: National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC) is a repository that facilitates research on arts and culture by acquiring data, particularly those funded by federal agencies and other organizations, and sharing those data with researchers, policymakers, people in the arts and culture field, and the general public. It is one of several topical archives hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the largest social science data archive in the world and part of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. NADAC is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Thanks to the support from the NEA, users can obtain data from NADAC completely free of charge.
Contact: Anna Ovchinnikova (anyao@umich.edu)
Oct 11, 2021