NH Public Library Statistics Blog

05 January 2010 - Happy New Year!

As the new year begins, the assembling of your data from 2009 begins.  Many libraries are expecting that the data will help them quantify just how much busier in service measures and how much reduced in resources they were.

The NHSL plans to open the annual NH Public Library Annual Report (NHPLAR) data collection for 2009 by 01 March 2010, with the collection closing on 19 April 2010.  Any library which has not started their data entry by 31 March will be contacted with a reminder.  Watch for information online at http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/lds/public_library_stats.html  and/or on the NH Public Library Statistics Blog at http://nhpublibstats.wordpress.com/

Any questions or requests for assistance should be directed to Tom Ladd at NHSL, via e-mail at Thomas.Ladd@dcr.nh.gov or by phone at (603)419-0086.

18 August 2009 - The NHSL has now published all of the data files from the 2008 NH Public Library Annual Reports, submitted by all but three public libraries this year. We thank them for their work which is represented in this data. We will be adding other analyzed data as it is processed. Tom Ladd, NHSL

2008 Statistics

30 June 2009

Our thanks to all of you who participated in our Annual Report data collection. This is truly a cooperative project - as the data assembled and submitted by local public library staff and trustees is collected by the State Library and reported through the US Census Bureau to become a part of the Public Library Statistics issued by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington, DC. These national statistics for 2007 have just been released by IMLS.

NH's 2008 data has been submitted to Census, and after a period of further edit checking, should be approved. At this point, NHSL will format and release the NH 2008 data. Although there are a number of variables, we hope that this data will become available in August 2009.

If you have any questions, please contact Tom Ladd, NH State Data Coordinator at Thomas.Ladd@dcr.nh.gov or (603)419-0086.