Library Statistics

ALA's Office for Research and Statistics' statistics about libraries including links to information on public, academic, school, and international libraries.

Library Fact Sheets

The ALA Library responds to inquiries from staff and members, plus others interested in, or doing research about, libraries. Here is the link to the ALA Library Resource Guides that provide a guide to sources for specific types of statistics about libraries in the United States.

Research on Libraries and Librarianship: Yearly Article in Library and Book Trade Almanac

2013 (pdf)

Citation: Reprinted from the Library and Book Trade Almanac (Bowker Annual), Vol. 59, copyright 2014 Information Today, Inc.

2012 (pdf)

Citation: Reprinted from the Library and Book Trade Almanac (Bowker Annual), Vol. 58, copyright 2013 Information Today, Inc.



2011 (pdf)

2010 (pdf)

2009 (pdf)

2008 (pdf)

2007 (pdf)

2006 (pdf)

2005 (pdf)

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