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The Federal/State Cooperative System for Public Library Data collected 32 basic data items for each public library and 7 identifying items. The data items include number of service outlets, number of full-time equivalent staff, operating income, operating expenditures, capital outlays, size of library collection, annual public service hours, attendance, number of reference transactions, total annual circulation transactions, and number of interlibrary loans. All 50 States and the District of Columbia (D.C.) are included in this file, which encompasses 8,978 public libraries.
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